Writing with Jim Kacian - "Harvest Dusk" - August 29, 2014

vendemmia
gathering the grapes
sipping new wine

autumn sunset
the trees hang heavy with fruit
under the castle

rose hips and apples
waiting to be harvested
autumn leaves burning

 summer's ending
reaping what's been sown
sparrows in the yard

Today's haiku offered by Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is:

harvest dusk--

sitting in the wheelbarrow
with the potatoes

©  Jim Kacian

Writing with Jim Kacian - "City Morning" - August 23, 2014

city morning

a crane lifts its shadow
up the wall

© Jim Kacian

after a night's sleep
the dawn of a new day -
sounds of traffic

© Chèvrefeuille

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night traffic
the city never sleeps
first rays of dawn 

early morning
factory workers changing shifts
city awakens

in the morning
vibrations of the metro
the city's heart beat

 ©  G.s.k. '14

Writing With Jim Kacian - Falling Leaves - August 17, 2014

Today's verse from Jim Kacian co-counder of The Haiku Foundation and owner  Red Moon Press on Carpe Diem haiku Kai is:

falling leaves
the house comes
out of the wood

© Jim Kacian

This is Chèvrfeuille's haiku:

 flowers of ice
on the window melting in the sun -
"look dad! it snows!"

© Chèvrefeuille

I love falling leaves ... one of my earliest memories is a song by Edith Piaf ...

falling leaves
rain - golden and red leave
presents a new world

somber rainfall
 leaves falling past the window
autumn beginning

the courtyard grows
emptied of its leafy veil
October morning

Writing with Jim Kacian - August 12, 2014

To inspire us today another haiku on Carpe Diem Special by Jim Kacian:

after snow
the faint yellowness
of the white house

© Jim Kacian

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misty winter day
houses in the valley
like ghosts

snowy dawn
world in black and white
pregnant silence

© G.s.k. '14

Writing with Jim Kacian - August 5, 2014

For this week's Carpe Diem Haiku Special we meet a great American haiku poet, Jim Kacian ... follow the link to find out who he is on Chèvrefueille's post!

Here's one of his finest haiku to meditate and write to:

chopping wood-
someone does the same
a moment later

© Jim Kacian

and now Chèvrefueille's:

 deep silence

in the forest I only hear

a Woodpecker

© Chèvrefeuille

 

Two fine haiku ... they speak to me of the flow of time and the magic of a moment!

 

 

walking in the rain
silence and reflections
the sparrow chirps

this road goes upwards
high into the mountain pass
one step after another

© G.s.k. '14