Carpe Diem #1230 glass sculpture (R.Loy, The Netherlands)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

A new episode on 'modern art', the theme for this month of CDHK. The 'modern art' for today is prize I won back into 1998. I was a participant in an art manifestation in my hometown. I introduced haiku there and it was a great experience. I recited haiku I created in the years before. I had gathered them in a book and had made a kind of hand-out of it in which I had gathered the most beautiful haiku and a few tanka.

At the end of this art manifestation they gave prizes for all the different kinds of arts ... and there was also a prize for literature ... That prize I won ... I was honored ...

glass sculpture by R. Loy

In this glass sculpture you can see all kinds of things, maybe it's elephant or a dinosaur ... I don't know. I like it, not only because of the story behind it, but also because its like haiku ... everyone can sense a different scene by reading the same haiku ... and this sculpture does the same.

young elephant
rolls through the mud
to cool down

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... it was a short episode, but I enjoyed creating it and I hope you can find the inspiration you need to create haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form.

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7:00 PM (CET) and will remain open until August 8th at noon (CET). Have fun ...

Share your haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form inspired on this piece of modern art with us all here at our Haiku Kai.

1.	Virginia Popescu	5.	Nosaint Augustine	9.	Jelka
2.	humbird	6.	kaykuala	10.	Blake
3.	Isabel Caves	7.	Sara McNulty
4.	Kim M. Russell	8.	milan rajkumar

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