tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57414179119196346122024-03-05T01:13:56.211-08:00Suikazura No RetsuAt Suikazura No Retsu which means "Chèvrefeuille's Column" in Japanese I gather the columns which I wrote for my daily haiku meme Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. I am a haiku-poet from The Netherlands and I write under the pseudonym Chèvrefeuille (Honeysuckle in French).
Haiku is an ancient Japanese poetry-form and I am writing haiku since the late eighties. I became an internationally know haiku-poet in 2005 as I wrote my first English haiku. ++ Suikazura No Retsu is part of Carpe Diem Haiku Family ++Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741417911919634612.post-48435407125244693312016-01-03T03:31:00.001-08:002016-01-03T03:31:15.639-08:00Suikazura No Retsu #10 the last column of 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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It's a while ago that I published an episode of my column
"Suikazura No Retsu", but finally I have found some time to write a
new column.<br />
I love to tell you something about Carpe Diem Haiku Kai and
it’s future. As you all know next October we will have our third anniversary
and it will be a great festive month. I have already created our prompt-list,
but I will publish it in the second half of this month.<br />
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Recently I created a few new features and I decided to change
something at CDHK. Several features are now bi-weekly and that’s really fine,
because the weeks are full enough and I even haven’t time enough to do those
extra features as you have seen this week (week 36). I hope to have more time
the upcoming<br />
weeks and I hope to have the results of our third kukai
“juxtaposition” soon.<br />
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Our first Renga-party is on the role, but I have seen that it
wasn’t a great way to make our first Renga in the way I have created it, so I
will look at it again to find the right way to make this a real Renga Party
without troubles or stagnation …<br />
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Than I have an all new e-book created in cooperation with <a href="http://www.ahapoetry.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Jane Reichhold</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">and as you have seen it you can download it at the right side of our
Haiku Kai. “Bare Bones School of Renga” has become a nice e-book and I think
you all will like it.</span><br />
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To conclude this column I have another announcement to make:<br />
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I have created a You Tube channel for our Haiku Kai and I
will soon make this channel available for you all. I have uploaded a first
“haiku-clip” with a haiku written by myself. You can find it<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x6GJM_jLFs"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">HERE</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">. This is all under construction, because I am
learning to create those videos or clips. That's my new challenge.<br />
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I have “made” a first design for another idea of me … our
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai T-Shirt and I am glad that there was one of our Haiku
Family members who reached me the hand to design this T-shirt.<br />
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Well … a last announcement … in November we will return to
the Altai Mountains in Central Asia to explore the steppes and the spirituality
of that rich country, those challenging mountains.<br />
I am looking forward to November and I know for sure there is
at least one of our Haiku Family members who will be glad to<br />
visit the Altai Mountains again.<br />
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</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Namaste,<br />
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Chèvrefeuille, your host.</span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Nederland52.132633 5.291265999999950549.638041 0.12769199999995084 54.627224999999996 10.454839999999951tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741417911919634612.post-2546651772185549862015-09-05T19:27:00.001-07:002015-09-05T19:27:55.467-07:00Suikazura No Retsu #9 Cry of a Seagull<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Haijin, visitors and travelers,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It's a
while ago that I published an episode of my column "Suikazura No
Retsu", but finally I have found some time to write a new column.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As I look
back to the first quarter of this year than we have had wonderful posts with a
lot of gorgeous haiku and tanka. And of course haiga. Haiga, giving your haiku
an image, was the main theme in March 2015 and I have seen wonderful haiga. I
think haiga has to become more known, because it's making our haiku better and
more open for the reader, because of the image that fits the haiku, but haiga
also has a "negative" taste ... why?</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Haiku is
the impression of a very short moment, as short as the sound of a pebble thrown
into water. To catch that moment is the goal of every haiku poet/ess. You want
to share your experience with your reader, but your reader has to feel how
he/she (the reader) experienced the moment caught in the haiku.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Haiku isn't
just written by a haiku poet/ess, but to share an individual experience of the
reader too. The reader must have the idea that he/she experiences what he/she
reads, sees, feels, smells and so on in the written haiku. It makes the reader
part of the haiku and in a way part of the haiku poet/ess.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As the
haiku poet/ess shares his/her experience in a haiga than the reader is pointed
to an image, a scene which he/she maybe don't want to experience.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then there
was the daring series of Haiku Writing Techniques in which I tried to give you
all more 'handles' to write/compose your haiku. I even had the guts to create
an all new haiku writing technique based on balance through association,
baransu, not an easy technique, but it can make your haiku better and stronger.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In a baransu
haiku the association on images is very important and that makes it (maybe)
difficult. I enjoyed the baransu technique a lot and I think it has brought me
a wonderful tool to write/compose haiku. I will give an example:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"cry of a seagull"</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> is the first line for this baransu
haiku example. Let me look on which images I can associate on: 'cry' will do
and 'seagull'. I think I will use 'seagull' ... what associations I got on
seagull? Hm ... beach, shore, ocean, sea, garbage, fishing, white, grey ... a
lot of associations. Which will I am gonna use? I think I will go for 'garbage'
and turn that into "dumping ground". Than this will become the second
line: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"above the dumping ground
next door".</b> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Than up to
the third line. Which images I can use from that new line to associate on:
'above', 'dumping', 'ground', 'next' and 'door'. Mostly every image I can use
from this 2nd line, this will not be easy. The third line has to fit the other
two lines or maybe not. I think I will use 'next door' to give this haiku a
twist ... Let me think? Hm ... I think this line will do <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"the neighbors quarrel”</b> ... yes a nice line. How will this
haiku, made with the baransu technique, look as I bring the three lines
together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">cry of a seagull<br />
above the dumping ground next door <br />
the neighbors quarrel<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">©
Chèvrefeuille<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And then we
had our first CDHK Kukai "wisteria" which is now in its judging phase
... I am looking forward to the results of our first Kukai and I have planned
already a new Kukai which I will announce after the announcement of our winner
of the first Kukai. So you have to be patient.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For closure
... April is half way and is running to its end. This month it's all about
'peace of mind' and we had a new co-host, Hamish Managua Gunn. Next month we
will go 'on the trail with Basho' and through his haiku (and haibun) we will
discover the beauty of ancient Japan and maybe we will learn from the master
himself ... you never know ...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chèvrefeuille, your host<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Nederland52.132633 5.291265999999950549.638041 0.12769199999995084 54.627224999999996 10.454839999999951tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741417911919634612.post-13164192462633428462014-11-12T19:10:00.001-08:002014-11-12T19:13:05.735-08:00Suikazura No Retsu #8, Be Like A Child<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong><span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Be like a
child ...<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As I cycled
to my work last evening, I am in the nightshift, I came along a street which I
always come along, but now it looked so different. It was as if I saw this
street for the very first time. The streetlights I had not seen earlier ... or
... , maybe the streetlights were hidden behind the leaves of the trees or I
had never had the attention for those streetlights ... I don't know.<br />
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At that moment I realized that this "seeing/not seeing" was a revelation
... I had to be like a child again. I had to look at my surroundings, my
neighborhood, nature with the eyes of a child. Everything I had to look at as
if it was the very first time that I saw it, just like children who see with
surprise e.g. the first snow, the first flower or anything else.<br />
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I had to look again to my world and I have to look again to the future of Carpe
Diem ... I will look at Carpe Diem as if I saw it for the very first time ...
have I reached my goals, the dream I had? Yes ... I have reached my goals and
the dream I had is still alive, but ... I have to look again at all the extra
features e.g. Soliloquy no Renga, Little Ones, Kamishibai ... there are to many
extra and special features ... I have to reduce them and to accomplish that I
have to look at Carpe Diem like a child which sees his/her world for the very
first time ...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">feel like a
child again<br />
nature is full of surprises -<br />
young brown eyes<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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Chèvrefeuille<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Nederland52.132633 5.291265999999950549.638064 0.12769199999995084 54.627202 10.454839999999951tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741417911919634612.post-56673873045956810192014-07-21T04:30:00.000-07:002014-07-21T04:30:01.276-07:00Suikazura No Retsu #7, ''who did it?''<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Here in The
Netherlands we are still in shock. Last Thursday (July 17th) 192 Dutch
citizens, and several other country's citizens, lost their lives in a brutal
attack. An airplane of Malaysian Airlines was shot down, but who did it?<br /><br />
Ukranian rebels and separatists and Russia are pointing to eachother. As the
days are passing this disaster is shown all over the News around the world and
everytime again the same question is asked: ''Who did it?'' There are certainly
ideas, but who ... who finally will give the answer?<br />
First the Ukranian rebels pointed to the Ukranian separatists and vice versa.
Russia is in shock and first says they will help with the investigation and
bring the truth out in the open, but a day later they say not to be willing to
help. Recently the Ukranian rebels have secured the spot of the shot down
airplane ... so the investigations had to stop. Those rebels were screaming and
shouting against the world. Shooting with their rivals while they danced on the
remains holding personal belongings of the casualties in their hands above
their heads. I saw one of the rebels showing a teddybear while he shoots with
his gun. Awefull, this isn't right, one should think that the rebels did it,
because they are celebrating on the remains.Russia remains silent and doesn't
want to help anymore ... did they (the Russians) do it?<br />
On all diplomatic and political levels high ranked people are discussing what
to do. What can they do? They have to take action and bring those who did this
to their knees and to justice.<br />
And what will follow? This tragedy must have consequences for those who did it.
The Dutch Government does nothing. As far as I know our Government wants to
keep the friendship with Russia and the Ukraine good, because we need them for
our gas and oil, we need them for our trading.<br />
Trading looks more important for the Dutch Government than finding the answer
on ''Who did it?'' All the money and power of the world will not give, those
who lost beloved ones in this tragedy, comfort and peace ... no they will have
to bare this tragedy their whole life ...<br />
The question stays unanswered ... ''Who did it?'' Will it be answered? I hope
so, because those who have done this must be brought to justice.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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take time to heal, that we all know, but ... if the aggressor who did this will
not be punished ... there can be no healing. The question remains ... ''Who did
it?'''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /><b><span style="color: #990000;">the cry of
an eagle<br />
shedding its tears with the lost souls -<br />
decaying roses</span></b><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chèvrefeuille<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">See you
next time<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Namaste<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">It's summer here in The Netherlands the temperature is rising to tropical hights around 30 degrees Celsius, the earth is starting to dry out and I have to water the garden almost everyday.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">The flowers starting to decay in a fast way. It's so sad to see the decay, but ... decay is needed to bring new life. Can we look at that according to humans? I don't know. In my opinion, our bodies are just a shell, so I think that we can say that also about humans. As we die our soul is leaving our body to resurrect into another body. Yes I believe in reincarnation, but why does a soul reincarnate?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">In my opinion we all have a goal in our life, maybe a kind of lesson we have to learn. That goal we have to fullfill and maybe we cannot reach that goal in just one life. So we have to prolong our goal by reincarnation. Maybe I am in my hundreds life, I don't know.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">As I was a little boy I thought that I once was Alexander the Great and as I became older and wiser and discovered haiku I started to believe that I once was a haiku-poet. Haiku crossed my path and I never had heard of it, but I was immediately in love with this little poem. Maybe I am the reincarnation of a (great) haiku-poet, but where do I got that idea from? I don't know ... it will be the summer heat and maybe I have a heatstroke.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">Haiku is really my passion as you all know. Several years ago I wrote a haiku, in my opinion not a masterpiece, but a lot of my readers said that it was as if it was written by Basho. A bigger compliment my readers couldn't give me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3333ff;">Back to the summerheat we are in the middle of here in The Netherlands. I love summer, but I am not a fan of this heat, not in our country. If I was in Spain for example than I could stand the heat. Here in The Netherlands this kind of heat is moist and is always followed by thunderstorms and heavy rains ... they are so refreshing.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><u>WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SOCCER</u></b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As you sure
have noticed the whole world is under the spell of soccer. In one of the
commercials of Coca Cola they say something like 'why can't be the world always
be like the world during the world championship soccer'. Maybe there's
something in that were we can contemplate about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Once in
four years the world is one. Differences are falling away. For just four weeks
the whole world is sharing their love for soccer with each other. It's awesome
to watch all those soccer-games and see how the winners and losers hugging each
other after the game. No differences, just different scores, showing the way to
the final.<br />
Soccer is like Honeysuckle, which spiritual meaning is 'searching the path to
inner wisdom and the inner Self'. Soccer is just like that. All those
soccer-players are on their own path to find their inner wisdom and inner Self.
All are looking to find their path to the goal, to be the best. They will find
their selves in the missed passes, the loss of the ball, missed goals and the
lost game. Losing the game is not a joy. That we will understand, but losing
the game opens your eyes to new ways, new paths to become better. Isn't that
the same as we all do? As we are writing and sharing haiku we are all looking
for the better, to learn more and make our haiku-skills better.<br />
Every soccer team that will be knocked-out of the world championship will
accept that. They have gained respect of the other. The respect of their
country, and that ... in my opinion ... is just as good as being a winner ...
they had the honor to be there to serve and honor their country.<br />
It doesn't matter which country will become the new world champion soccer (of
course I am a little bit patriotic and therefore I am hoping that my country,
The Netherlands, will be that new world champion). All those countries present
at the world championship soccer are winners, because they have brought the
world together, for just four weeks sadly, and brought (in a way) peace to the
world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What has
soccer to do with haiku? More than you would think. As we compare the world
championship soccer with haiku than we see something great.<br />
Soccer brings the world together, and haiku brings the world together as we all
can see here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. Our family of haiku-poets comes from all
over the globe. We share our love for haiku as the world now does share the
love of soccer.<br />
Is there something else we have in common with the world championship
soccer-players? Yes we have ... soccer is art as haiku is art. Soccer-players
are the poets of the game. Will there be more we have in common? I think so,
but I don't know it yet, maybe you know it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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writing haiku<br />
while watching soccer -<br />
two worlds together</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">See you
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741417911919634612.post-89705679098025039272014-06-13T01:19:00.001-07:002014-11-12T19:15:55.634-08:00Suikazura No Retsu #4, Oncology<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Good day
dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span><span lang="EN-US">As you
(maybe) know I am an oncology-nurse not the most easy job that for sure I can
say. It's an everyday struggle for the patients I am caring for and that makes
me sometimes sad and angry. As an oncology-nurse I am working in a local
hospital at lung-unit and lately we see more patients which are diagnosed with lung
cancer. Sometimes they have already COPD or asthma and some of them have cystic
fibrosis or lung eczema. Mostly they have already a whole life behind them, but
not so long ago we had a very young man on the unit. Not even in his forties.
At such moments it's very hard to accept that, because, as you maybe know, my
elder brother died almost 20 years ago of lung cancer. Not because he was a
smoker, no he always lived healthy ... he had a juvenile kind of lung cancer
which he didn't know of. As my brother died ... I was angry with the whole
world and at God. "Why did He take my brother away?" <br />
Until today I haven't found the answer, but I have learned to live with this
loss and my parents also learned that. As I look back at the years we (my
brother and I) were always together I remember only the nice things. We were
not only brothers, but also best friends forever. <br />
My brother became, and he didn't know that than, the one who made me decide to
become a nurse and after a few years as a registered nurse I became also a
registered oncology-nurse.<br />
Oncology, all what has to do with cancer, isn't an easy thing. It's difficult
to cope with it, but it's really a joy to take care of oncology patients. It
has become my life and it made me who I am know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Because of
my job I needed a way out for my feelings and thoughts and so I started
writing. Next to two novels which I wrote I became an internationally known
haiku-poet and maybe, a haiku-master, but that's not up to me to say.<br />
Haiku became a real way of life for me and it gave me the strength to be an
oncology-nurse.<br /><br />
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the source of my unconditional love<br />
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bringing joy and light to my patients<br />
man with the lamp</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">See you
next time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Namaste.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Nederland52.132633 5.291265999999950549.638064 0.12769199999995084 54.627202 10.454839999999951tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741417911919634612.post-17996664456561459942014-06-03T14:00:00.002-07:002014-06-03T14:00:30.071-07:00Suikazura No Retsu #3, Departing Spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Spring<o:p></o:p></u></span></strong></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">June, the
month of summer, has started and we are saying goodbye to spring. Spring ...
the season of new life. The season of returning light after the dark autumn and
winter time. I love all seasons, but spring is my favourite season. Nature's
coming to life again and soon Mother Nature is again newly clothed in all her
beauty.<br />
Nowadays we dot live anymore with the changing of seasons. Sometimes I am
longing for that old fashioned way of living with the changing of the seasons.
Maybe that's the mind and heart of a haiku-poet. It certainly is always in my
mind and heart. I am a man of nature. We, humans, are part of nature and so it
has to be in my opinion. Do you feel that in the same way? Are you all also a
part of nature living with the changing of the seasons?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As I was a
young kid I was a big fan of the history lessons at school and especially the
history of humans. I can dream away to the pre-historic time when we, humans,
started to discover and ''conquer'' Earth. Going to hunt for food. That ''raw''
life ... fighting to survive, walking and running through nature. Feeling free,
living completely naked, making clothes of animal-skin as winter starts.
Crawling together around the fire to become warm with your wife and kids, your
friends. How wonderful that life must have been ... I am longing for that kind of
life, but do I really want to go back to that kind of life? Deep down inside I
know that I wouldn't survive that kind of life, but dreaming of it is fun.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I try to
live with the seasons and in this time of year when we are closing in to summer
I would love to go back to the pre-historic time, because than I could live
naked enjoying the heat of the day and the coolness of the night. What a joy
that would be.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nowadays
you cannot go naked on the streets, because of all laws and regulations we
have, but in my backyard, hidden behind trees, bushes and the fence I can live
naked, enjoying the heat of the day and the coolness of the night. That's
almost like living in the pre-historic time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><span style="color: #38761d;">departing
of spring<br />
reliving pre-historic times<br />
naked in the backyard<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span><br />
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Chèvrefeuille<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">See you
next time ... as I will publish a new Suikazura No Retsu.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Namaste<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Nederland52.132633 5.291265999999950549.638064 0.12769199999995084 54.627202 10.454839999999951tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741417911919634612.post-42515633471032598212014-06-01T14:05:00.002-07:002014-06-25T04:00:25.489-07:00Suizakura No Retsu #2, Carpe Diem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's unbelievable, but <a href="http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #990000;">CDHK</span></b></a> is still here on the world wide web. As I started this daily haiku meme, I couldn't have dreamed that CDHK would be here, almost 2 years after the 'kick-off'. I love to write our daily posts, and (ofcourse) I use the www on a regular base. Since we have the www the world is completly open to everyone ... we can read books in libraries all over the world and on Wikipedia we can find almost everything. Using the www for our haiku-community is fun, because as I am researching I ran into several different sides with a lot of various information and knowledge.<br />Every post needs time to prepare and research, but I love doing it. Sometimes time is not on my side, but .... well that's life.</div>
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Everytime I am looking forward to your posts and its always a joy to read your submitted haiku, tanka, haibun and all other micro-poetry forms there are. I even thought, several days ago, to make CDHK a weblog for all micro-poetry, but I decided not to do so, because haiku is the base, the heart of CDHK. And as you all know .... haiku is my passion.<br />However there is more next to haiku and I think I have found a nice mix of poetry on CDHK and I think you all like that mix.<br />Carpe Diem Haiku Kai has become a great community, a wonderful and caring haiku-family, and I am glad that we have a steady group of submittants and that makes me happy.<br />Carpe Diem, a daily joy ... I can't live without it and I hope you all think in the same way.</div>
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Namaste,</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong><u><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Haiku-Family<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></strong></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here it is
... our first CDHK column Suikazura No Retsu (which means "Chèvrefeuille's
Column"). I have thought this over and over again, but finally decided to
do this. I hope this column will be fun to read (and of course)
under-standable, because English isn't my mother tongue.<br />
As you all know CDHK started in October 2012 and it's still alive and kicking.
It's really my pleasure to be your host, notwithstanding my busy life as a
father, grandfather, oncology-nurse and haiku-poet (and author of two novels).<br />
Sometimes time is not at my side and that gives sometimes delay of posts, but
... well ... I can do a lot, but magic I don't possess.<br />
I am always happy as I read all of your comments and compliments. Mostly
positive, but sometimes criticizing, but that's no problem as you all know (I
hope). I do understand your critics and I respect that.<br />
Over all you are all positive and great family-members. Family? Are we a
family? I think we are a family, not by bloodlines, but by our shared love for
haiku (and other Japanese poetry-forms) and that makes me a happy host (and
maybe ... your "haiku-family-patriarch").<br />
As I wrote in <a href="http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.nl/2014/05/carpe-diem-474-valley-aboriginal-legend.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">one of my last posts at CDHK</span></strong></a>, we have a new month coming up with
modern kigo (seasonwords) for summer based on <a href="http://www.ahapoetry.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">Jane Reichhold's</span></strong></a> "A
Dictionary of Haiku" (a modern Saijiki). Jane is one of the most wellknown
haiku-poetesses of modern times and maybe ... one of our haiku-family-members
will become that famous once. I hope for someone that will become reality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well ...
see you next time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Namaste,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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