photo: (c) 2015 Saradunn
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my response to “summertime”
lush foliage
fragrant ~ brilliant blooms
a thankful
solstice
….Saradunn
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Inspired by the posted prompt:
After a long difficult winter with trees
damaged by ice and heavy snow, the
brilliance of the greens of trees and the
colors of the perennials I am awestruck
by Mother Nature’s recovery.
Saradunn
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The Carpe’ Diem prompt:
Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
Last Saturday I started a new feature here at our Haiku Kai. I
n this new feature you have no prompts or something
it’s just for sharing your favorite haiku or tanka
with us all here at our Haiku Kai and put them into the “poem bag” or Utabukuro.
For this episode however I have a theme.
That theme has to be found in the shared haiku or tanka
and this week I love to ask you to share
your favorite haiku or tanka about “summertime”.
This favorite haiku can be from a modern haiku poet or a classical haiku poet.
As you have found your favorite haiku or tanka
than please tell us why you have chosen that specific haiku or tanka
and than write an all new haiku or tanka inspired on the haiku or tanka of your choice.
For this episode of Carpe Diem Utabukuro
I have ran through my archives and found the following haiku
which I wrote back in 2012 as spring was departing
and summer almost started.
This is a cascading haiku about sunflowers.
I like sunflowers, because I associate them with summer,
even when the sun is not there through the sunflowers I can feel summer.
hopeful new day
AVAILABLE in yellowish
a great sunflower
a great sunflower
desirable to bright sunlight
bows its head to earth
bows its head to earth
a possible new flower opens
promising dreams
© Chèvrefeuille
And here is my all new haiku inspired on this cascading haiku written by myself:
bruised sunflower
it bowed its head to deep –
departure of summer
© Chèvrefeuille
Not as strong as I had hoped, but I like the opposite scene …
siggiofmaine 
Chèvrefeuille
A beautiful haiku Sigrid