A Tribute to Jane Reichhold, Queen of Haiku

In this tumblr I love to share haiku written by Jane Reichhold, Queen of Haiku (and Tanka) to tribute and honor her. Jane Reichhold died at the end of July 2016. She will be missed forever. Jane was part of my daily haiku meme Carpe Diem Haiku Kai and without her, my friend and mentor, Carpe Diem Haiku Kai hadn't become world's best weblog on haiku.

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Jane wasn’t only a haiku poetess, she also created wonderful tanka. I love to share a tanka of her ... to honor her:

too old for new love the moon rises each night as I remember the backseats of strange cars it's helpful light afterwards

© Jane Reichhold

And here is my response on this beautiful Tanka:

dreams unknown as I look at the beauty of the moon she ... my love always attracting my eyes she never will know how deep my love is

© Chèvrefeuille

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All my years Haiku & Tanka

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July 28th 2016: stepping of a cliff.

Dear friends,

This month it will be the first anniversary of Jane Reichhold’s death. She choose death herself. She couldn’t live anymore with the pain of fybromyalgia and the loss of her sight. She decided to step of a cliff ... falling to her own death.

Recently I ran into a haiku she wrote on the theme suicide ... In remembrance of her suicide I had to share that haiku here ... at the tribute tumblr for her. This haiku feels now like a prophesy.

dangerous weather such a perfect day for stepping of a cliff

© Jane Reichhold (taken from “a dictionary of haiku”, the paper version)

And here is my response:

flying away following the rainbow into heaven

© Chèvrefeuille (July 17th 2017)

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A fallen leaf At least in its death There is beauty (C) Jane Reichhold My response : Last summer day A change of nature's colors Rain falls softly (C) Chèvrefeuille

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coming home again to cherry blossoms always young (C) Jane Reichhold My response : after the cold finally cherry blossoms bloom again I bow my head (C) Chèvrefeuille

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golden shade under the redwoods evergreen violets

© Jane Reichhold

My response :

soft sunlight through the willow leaves magical

© Chèvrefeuille

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Honoring Jane

Our "weekend-meditation " is online. This week I have a nice article by Jane for your inspiration. Jane's article is about Basho's renown "frogpond " haiku. Feel free to visit us at: http:// chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com one breath the silence deepens the sound of water (C) Chèvrefeuille

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Carpe Diem honors Jane Reichhold

Dear friends, If Jane was still alive than she would have become 80 years. So I started a special Theme Week to honor Jane on January 18th, her birthday. Tomorrow this special week will have its last episode. In that episode I have a nice series of haiku by Jane to inspire you. Feel free to visit Carpe Diem at http:// chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com Chèvrefeuille

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Soon to come an all new and exclusive CDHK E-book by Candy our winner of the 'tribute to Jane ' kukai. This new E-book is titled "only footprints". By the way the above image is not the cover of this new E-book. The cover looks almost the same as the above image. I will keep you posted. Chèvrefeuille

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bright enough to write a poem the cold moon

© Jane Reichhold

My response :

a candle to light this virgin paper new born haiku

© Chèvrefeuille

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autumn color in a heap of leaves fire

( C ) Jane Reichhold

My response :

autumn in my home in front of the fireplace hot love

( C ) Chèvrefeuille

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the cemetery fence is unable to hold back white lilies ( C ) Jane Reichhold Just a beauty ....

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still rippling leaves on the stream when they fall ( C ) Jane Reichhold My response : a last leaf falls circles fade in silence while raindrops dance ( C ) Chèvrefeuille See you ...

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snap sound coming from the earth the lily opens

( C ) Jane Reichhold

My response :

listen the sound of water lotus opens

( C ) Chèvrefeuille

See you …

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wind in the bamboo where do they come from these notes ( C ) Jane Reichhold My response : wind chimes their fragile sound walks with me ( C ) Chèvrefeuille See you ...

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I love the sound of the Japanese bamboo flute, shakuhachi. It’s fragile sound finds its way into deep silence.

bamboo flute finding the song in fingers

( C ) Jane Reichhold

My response :

deep silence he plays the Shakuhachi the silence deepens

( C ) Chèvrefeuille

See you. ..

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This photo (found while surfing the www ) brought a nice haiku in mind which I recently read written by Jane Reichhold : granite stone moss filling the cracks with a name ( C ) Jane Reichhold My response : spirits dwelling on a moss covered graveyard alive again ( C ) Chèvrefeuille See you