Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, Every time I try to restart isn't working at the moment. I have a very busy life, and also a lot of problems in my life e.g. with a few of my kids and grandkids, my family is the most important in my life, so that's why every restart is going wrong. In my last post I told you all that I would restart with a daily theme on monday to friday, but it's not possible for me (at the moment) to post every workday, so I am trying this now for the weekend. My plan for now is to give you a theme every weekend to work with, mostly that will be one of my artwor ..read more

  Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,  Welcome at a new, week lately than promised, episode of our wonderful haiku Kai. I promised you a week ago to start CDHK again, but ... I was to busy. So here is our new episode. The theme of this month is "summer" and I hope to inspire you with haiku from Jane Reichhold's online Saijiki. Here is the Haiku by Jane Reichhold: depth of a flower flying away with the bee some mystery (C) Jane Reichhold (1937-2016) The goal is to create a new haiku inspired on the haiku by Jane and my artwork at the top of this post. I discovered AI Art now more t ..read more

  Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, It has been a very long time that I posted something in our Haiku Kai. I had a very busy time and several private issues that withold me from being creative and publishing in here.  I hope to restart Carpe Diem Haiku Kai next month. That means I hope to start publishing on monday until friday, 5 posts a week. I miss creating and publishing for you my dear Haijin, visitors and travelers and I hope you can forgive me. As you can see above I recently started to create Art with Artificial Intelligence, I love creating with AI and I certainly will ..read more

 Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, It's a joy to create a new post for our wonderful haiku kai, it has to be to long ... As I told you in our post yesterday I have had a very busy time, not only professional,  but in private too. As I look back into 2022 ... for us, my family and myself, we hope to forget 2022 very fast. Not everything was sad or bad, but ... not a very good year. Except one thing ... my wife and I became grandparents again, our youngest daughter gave birth to her third child, a boy. Okay ... back to today. 2023 started with an awesome "bang" ... Fireworks ofcou ..read more

  Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, It has been to long that I tried to continue our wonderful haiku Kai. There we a lot of circumstances, not all are solved at the moment, but ... I hope to restart our haiku Kai. I recently started with a new contract, same job, but more part-time. My work took to much from me and I almost became mentally ill of it, so I had to make a choice. As you can see above ... I started with a new hobby ... creating AI Art. The above creation is inspired on an awesome surreal piece of art I recently discovered.  A new year up front Just memories fading a ..read more

  Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, Welcome at a new episode of our wonderful Haiku Kai. This month I have chosen the theme "Let The Sunshine In" and today our theme is "Heat Wave". Here in The Netherlands we are expecting a "heat wave" next week, but today it's already very warm, around 25 degrees Celsius. To hot to work, but well ... as you all know I am a nurse, so I have to work, even when it is "crazy" hot. after the summer heat raindrops kissing my naked body Ah! that coolness © Chèvrefeuille, your host This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until J ..read more

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, Finally Summer has arrived at the Northern hemisphere and I am glad to find time to create a new episode in our wonderful Haiku Kai. It has been a strange time. The World is at stake and all around our wonderful planet we see still the results of the Covid-19 pandemic. Ofcourse there are several ideas according to this pandemic, but ... well that's not our business here at CDHK. As you all know I am a healthcare worker and at the moment we have a small covid-19 outbreak again, not only our patients, but also a lot of  my co-workers are suffering from ..read more

  Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, Welcome at a new episode of our wonderful Haiku Kai, the place to be if you like to create Haiku, Tanka or other Japanese poetry form. Today I love to challenge you to create a so called "Pi-Ku". Maybe you know that there is an international day about Pi, that mathematical phormula that is known as the Greek letter "Pi" or 3,14. That international day was on March (3rd month) 14th ... so that explains why it is called "Pi-day". A "Pi-Ku" has three lines (as every haiku has), but you have to follow another series of syllables. A "Pi-Ku" follows the ..read more

  Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, It is almost Summer 2022 (on the Northern Hemisphere) and to give you all the opportunity to create haiku this summer I have created this CDHK Weekend Meditation Summer 2022. I will create every weekend, mostly on Friday evening, an episode of this Summer 2022 Weekend Meditation,  For this first Summer 2022 Weekend Meditation I have chosen the theme Sunrise (a Crossroads Challenge). A Crossroads Challenge means that I will give you two haiku. With those two haiku you have to create a new haiku. With that "third" haiku I challenge you to create ..read more

  Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, It seems that I am not capable of continueing CDHK as I wanted last month. There is always a kind of not having time enough. So I am trying it again. This new month, May 2022, I have chosen the theme "New Horizons". In this month I hope to post new CDHK episodes with a "look into the future" idea. We are living in a world that is "on fire", not only through the war in the Ukraine, but we are also in a world that is in an endemic called Covid-19. Everywhere on this world we have to deal with this "new" illness and it gives us the opportunity to look ..read more