red

Carpe Diem #2 – Theme Week
Color Your Life – Red

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morning sky
glows with red warning
afternoon storm

roosters

Carpe Diem #943 – Flute
In the Way of Basho – “literary reference”

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early morning
symphony of roosters
echo Saint-Saens

Carpe Diem #942 – Thorn
In the Way of Basho – “twist”

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spring romance
meeting in the garden
mourning doves

Carpe Diem #940 – Blossom
kasuri – frame rhyme/para rhyme

apple blossoms
jewels on bare branches
top to bottom

Carpe Diem Special #202 Bash’s Disciples :
Shiba Sonome’s “nobody sees”

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chrysilis
hides the transformation
butterfly

Carpe Diem Trokubetsudesu #73 – pi-ku
Use the first six numbers of pi for the syllable count in a pi-ku
A fun challenge indeed.

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loud cawing
crows
in a bare tree
try
chasing a large hawk
with noise and flapping of deep black wings

Carpe Diem #939 – Old Pond
In the Way of Basho – sense switching

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bamboo grove
breeze passes through
wind chimes

Carpe Diem #938 Iris leaves
In the Way of Basho – pseudo-science

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jasmine
blooming at night
like the moon

Carpe Diem #937 – Robe
In the Way of Basho – pun

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yellow monster
hiding in my garden
snapdragon

Carpe Diem #936 – Forest
In the Way of Basho – paradox

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black sky
moonbeam breaks through
spotlight