Mochi Cakes and Circles - haiku ad tanka - January 8, 2015

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circling the table

families eat lentil soup

New Year's Eve

circles of mochi
offerings for the gods
in Japan

family circles
from greats to babies
feasting life

full circle
another year's ending 

a new beginning
with kagami-mochi
and thick lentil soup

© G.s.k. ‘15

Credits: Kagamimochi

I love traditions and those linked to the family and prosperity abound through out the world especially during the various New Year celebrations.  Go and visit Carpe Diem Haiku Kai for more about Kagamimochi ... as for lentils ... in Italy, on New Year's day it is nearly obligatory to eat lentils in one form or another so that family and friends will be prosperous throughout the year.  For the occasion I prepared a dish of Persian Rice with lentils ... not everyone can stomach lentil soup ;-)

Haiku Horizons- Circle

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai - Family and Kagamimochi

Full Circle #3 - September 13, 2014

For Carpe Diem Haiku Kai's Full Circle Challenge:

 "You have to use the words given in the clock-wise direction. So every word has to come in the line of it's place on the clock e.g. mirror you have to use for line one (1) and leaves for line two (2) and so on."

Here are the 12 (twelve) words for this new episode:

1. mirror

2. leaves

3. rain

4. butterfly

5. chrysanthemum

6. breeze

7. stars

8. clouds

9. ocean

10. daisies

11. cow shed

12. secret 

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a misty mirror
reflects autumn leaves falling
like rain in a lake

the butterfly rests
on the white chrysanthemum
ruffled by the breeze

searching for the stars
between dark clouds in the sky
in the dark ocean

daisies by dozens
out behind the cowshed
secret lovers

© G.s.k. '14

Carpe Diem Special Full Circle #1- July 27, 2014

 

 At Carpe Diem Haiku Special I read:

Today I love to introduce an all new feature here at our Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special weblog. I have called it ''Full Circle'' and the goal is to write haiku with the twelve (12) words I will give. It's a kind of word-whirl and you have to use the words given in the clock-wise direction. So every word has to come in the line of it's place on the clock e.g. cherry you have to use for line one (1) and leaves for line two (2) and so on.

1. cherry  2. leaves 3. breeze 4. solstice 5. beach  6. love  7. departure  8. moon  9.

mushrooms  10. icicles  11. blizzard  12. fireworks

So Here I Go!

cheery trees and leaves
caressed by the breeze shiver
before spring solstice

walking on the beach
two people in love embrace
before departure

moon beams fall
upon  mushrooms in the woods
the owl hoots

icicles hanging
the blizzard raged suddenly
the bear sleeps soundly

children on the lake
enchanted by the fireworks
at Riva in August