For the love of haiku – embers

15 Jan 2013

For the love of haiku – embers

Thanks to Carpe Diem for the lovely idea of sharing haiku. In old Japan they use to hold haiku parties where poets would compose haiku to be shared at once. Carpe Diem has recreated this tradition for the modern age.

I’m not a great haiku writer, but here is my contribution:

I can remember

the look on your face as

the last ember winked out.

Posted in Blog challenges and sharing, Poetry and tagged Carpe Diem, embers, haiku, haiku party

20 thoughts on “For the love of haiku – embers”

hcurci on February 16, 2013 at 3:38 pm said:

Thank you for your reply:

Parallel Universes; if they exist, the current theory is they most likely would be extremely hostile since the physics in our Universe would be much different in the neighboring universe i.e. gravity replaced my electromagnetic energy probably would not support planets orbiting a life giving star.

Hank http://www.hcurci.wordpress.com

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- E A M Harris on February 18, 2013 at 9:14 am said:
  
  If the theory is right it doesn’t sound as if we’ll ever explore parallel universes. Even unmanned probes would find it difficult to cope with something so different. I personally prefer the theory that there are numerous parallel universes differing only slightly from ours – but this idea is probably out of date.
  
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Cynthia Ann Katon-Alfonso on February 2, 2013 at 8:55 pm said:

Great one to begin with, i’d love to read more coming up.

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- E A M Harris on February 3, 2013 at 8:56 am said:
  
  Thank you for your lovely comment. I hope to participate more in the ‘Love of Haiku’.
  
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kz on January 16, 2013 at 3:14 am said:

well i think it’s a great haiku with much feeling

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- E A M Harris on January 16, 2013 at 11:07 am said:
  
  Thank you so much for your kind comment. It means a lot that someone likes my work.
  
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jrbsays on January 15, 2013 at 9:19 pm said:

Oh that last line is excellent. Thank you 🙂

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- E A M Harris on January 16, 2013 at 11:07 am said:
  
  Thank you so much for your comment and feedback. I’m glad you liked it.
  
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Björn Rudberg (brudberg) on January 15, 2013 at 8:36 pm said:

I think this example is a unique example among all the original ideas on the prompt.

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- E A M Harris on January 16, 2013 at 11:09 am said:
  
  Thank you, Bjorn, for your lovely comment. I’m glad you found something to relate to in it.
  
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Lolly on January 15, 2013 at 7:16 pm said:

This is terrific haiku!

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- E A M Harris on January 16, 2013 at 11:11 am said:
  
  Hi Lolly, thank you so much for your lovely comment. Thank you also for your beautiful blog.
  
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4joyjoanne on January 15, 2013 at 6:00 pm said:

perfect..,.love the winking ember….

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- E A M Harris on January 16, 2013 at 11:13 am said:
  
  Thank you so much for commenting and for pointing out the bit you particularly liked. You are so kind.
  
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jennypellett on January 15, 2013 at 5:41 pm said:

We had a go at Haiku writing at an evening class – a great challenge with different levels of success! Here is one of mine……
Haiku, like you I
Like to hike too, where to go
Hiking – just us two

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- E A M Harris on January 16, 2013 at 11:14 am said:
  
  Thank you for stopping by and sharing your haiku. I love the play on words; it’s something I’m not good at myself but your obviously are.
  
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Chevrefeuille on January 15, 2013 at 1:32 pm said:

Welcome at Carpe Diem’s daily haiku meme e.a.m. harris. I am glad that you have found your way to here. I am your host on Carpe Diem. What a nice first attempt to write haiku. This is a nice one. Hope that you will enjoy writing haiku and hope to see you here again. Thank you for sharing your haiku with us all on Carpe Diem.

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- E A M Harris on January 16, 2013 at 11:48 am said:
  
  Thank you so much for your welcome and for hosting the daily haiku. It’s a brilliant idea.
  
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Gemma Wiseman on January 15, 2013 at 11:58 am said:

Like me, your thoughts flew to some connection in your world that seemed to be symbolised by the features of fire! Lovely!

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- E A M Harris on January 16, 2013 at 11:20 am said:
  
  Thank you so much, Gemma, for your comment. One sends a poem into the world, hoping it’ll resonate with some readers’ experiences – thank you for sharing yours.
  
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