As a blogger inspired initiative to honor
the spirit and sacrifices of the people
in Japan's stricken Tohoku region,
we welcome you to
Cities of Green Leaves Ginko-no-Kukai
May 14 and 15, 2011
We encourage everyone to join us in collaborating with like-minded poets and
bloggers in combining your skills and talents, enter your haiku in a peer judged
contest, and take the opportunity to offer aid and support to our friends in
Japan in a consensus of thought, well wishes and kinetic energies to occur
simultaneously around the globe.
It's no surprise the kukai's topic will take its cue from Sendai, Japan's annual
Aoba Matsuri Festival, an event held originally to honor the city's founder,
Date Masamune. The date has now become an annual celebration with thousands of
visitors, a parade, sparrow dance, taiko drums and tree lined streets as part of
the festival each year to rejoice in the arrival of spring's new greenery and
rebirth.
Choose any place in your vicinity to hold your ginko walk, as long as it holds
the attributes to inspire many to compassionate action in the beauty of poetry,
and the celebration of the renewing power of nature's seasons.
Click here
to send and submit your poems. Submissions deadline will be Friday,
May 20th, 2011.
Send up to three haiku - your submissions will remain anonymous until we post
the winner's results. Participants will be be able to vote on their favorites on
this site when posted.
We encourage all participants to contribute to charitable relief for the
residents of the Tohoku region of Japan. We've listed some organizations below.
Please, enjoy yourselves, and we look forward to walking with you!
Charitable Donations
Architecture for Humanity
Japanese Red Cross Society
Ngo Jen Official Website
Salvation Army in Japan
Participating Blogs
Area 17
ashley capes
Charlotte D's Writer's Blog
Green Tea and Bird Song
Haiku Bandit Society
Hailstone Haiku Circle Icebox
Issa's Snail
Red Dragonfly
Shiteki Na Usagi
Word Pond
please join us!
1 comment:
Good day, Alan,
Thanks for all you kind support and ideas in formulating our event.
Just to let you know, we have a new E-mail address to mail your Kukai submissions: haikubanditsociety@zoho.com
And congratulations to Diana Webb for being the first to submit haiku to this event - true Haikai Spirit!
Our deadline for submissions is Friday, May 20th, after which we will post the haiku for participant voting.
And if our readers are able, please consider a donation to a helping organization for aid to the Tohoku region of Japan.
Wishing you great peace and joy in your Ginko walk -
willie (bandit)
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