Carpe Diem Haiku Writing Techniques #5, comparison.

In the words of Betty Drevniok: ”In haiku the SOMETHING and the SOMETHING ELSE are set down together in clearly stated images. Together they complete and fulfill each other as ONE PARTICULAR EVENT.” She rather leaves the reader to understand that the idea of comparison is showing how two different things are similar or share similar aspects.

a spring nap
downstream cherry trees
in bud

surprising
my flower window
orchid buds

Carpe Diem #660, Impressions.

in the faint light
of the departing sun –
a sedge warbler sings
© Chèvrefeuille

 sundrops fall all over
nature is burning in light
shadow faints away

Carpe Diem Special #129, Sogi’s 5th haiku.

Now that they end
There is no flower that can compare
With cherry blossoms         © Iio Sogi

Ah! those cherry blossoms
every where I look their beauty amazes me again –
finally spring is here          © Chèvrefeuille

enlightening words
like nature’s cherry blossoms
balm for soul’n heart

© Birgitta Rudenius

Cherry blossom

Carpe Diem #651, Picking Young Greens (wakanatsumi).

cool dawn –
an old Indian picking
young greens                © Narayanan Raghunathan

late at night
picking young greens in the kitchen garden –
the almost full moon               © Chèvrefeuille

 the seven sacred
early morning’s sunny greens
porridge will be served

©Birgitta Rudenius