Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, May 16th 2018 … crossroads

crossroads

Dear friends of MLMM,

This week I love to challenge you in another way. Today I love to ask you to create a new haiku, or as I call it a “fusion”-haiku. What is the goal of this week’s challenge? I will give you two haiku by a classical haiku poet, two nice ones I think, and you have to create a new haiku, a fusion, between the scenes in the given haiku. Imagine you are on a crossroad … you can take several paths to find your destination, your goal. The goal for this challenge … well I think it’s very clear.

Here are the two haiku to create your “fusion” with, two beauties by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translations by Jane Reichhold:

from a treetop
emptiness dropped down
in a cicada shell

black forest
whatever you may say
a morning of snow

And this is my “fusion” of these two beauties by my sensei:

silent forest
emptiness filled with snow
a cicada shell

© Chèvrefeuille

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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