Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille September 9th 2015 Kiku or Chrysanthemum(s)

Chrysanthemums bouquet

Dear friends of MLMM,

Another week has gone by. Time flies it’s like sand through your fingers. I had a very busy week, because I am preparing a very festive month for Carpe Diem. Next October Carpe Diem (my daily haiku meme) will celebrate its third anniversary and that brings a lot of work … but mostly fun.
This week’s “Heeding Haiku With …” I have chosen to inspire you all with a wonderful (classical) kigo Kiku or Chrysanthemum. Autumn is really the time for the Chrysanthemum and I have written several haiku myself inspired on Chrysanthemum for example this one, caught in a kind of haibun (prose and poetry).

My father in law has a wonderful basket full of Chrysanthemum in his garden. They are very colorful, yellow, orange, purple and white. A nice Autumn bouquet. I forgot to bring with me my camera, and I don’t have such a modern smartphone, as I was visiting him. If I hadn’t than I could have shown you this wonderful Chrysanthemum basket.

so many colors
the backyard looks like a rainbow
Chrysanthemums in bloom

© Chèvrefeuille

And another nice Chrysanthemum haiku from my archives:

white chrysanthemum
stands proud between falling leaves
autumn has arrived

© Chèvrefeuille

And for closure of this episode of “Heeding Haiku With …” I have a wonderful haiku written by my master Matsuo Basho:

kangiku ya   amazake tsukuru   mado no saki

winter chrysanthemum –
heating sweet wine
in front of the window

© Basho

Well I hope I have inspired you all to write haiku … have fun!

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About Chèvrefeuille

I am a Dutch haiku poet. And I am the owner and host of the weblog "Carpe Diem, a daily haiku meme" on Blogger (or Blogspot). I am writing haiku since the late eighties and in 2005 I became an international known haiku poet and in 2011 ten of my haiku were included in a worldwide anthology "Spasms of Light". With that anthology I became an even more known haiku poet. In October 2012 I started my daily haiku meme.

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