Carless car free Sunday

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Carless Sunday, Car Free Day

***** Location: Europe
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Humanity

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Every year from 16 to 22 September is European Mobility Week, a week in which the major cities of Europe try and encourage the ever greater diversity of transport. The aim is help motorists to choose more environmentally friendly ways of moving across the city and, increasingly also, to help cities plan their transport policy in such a way that sustainable transport can flourish.

2012 was the eleventh year of the European Mobility Week. The movement has now expanded well beyond Europe, and in 2012 included 11 non EU Member States, some as far afield as Brazil, Canada, Japan and Taiwan. Altogether, 1983 cities participated (for more information, see http://www.mobilityweek.eu).

The highlight of European Mobility Week is the Sunday within the week, which for participating cities has become the Carless Sunday. In 2012, this was 16 September.

On this one Sunday of the year, the people of Brussels (where I have often spent the day) may not use their cars from 9.00 am to 7.00 pm. The only vehicles allowed on the road are public transport (providing their services free of charge on this day), taxis, ambulances, police and any citizens who absolutely need to use their cars and have acquired a permit from the authorities in good time beforehand. The police rigorously enforce the ban, and fines are heavy if cars are caught on the roads or if those allowed to drive exceed the special speed limit of 20 km/h.


So many cyclists on the rue de la Loi

Carless Sunday is one of the best days of the year to be in Brussels. Everyone, young and old, are out and about with bicycles, scooters, skateboards, rollerskates, prams and whatever else. The weather seems to be fine each year, and people enjoy themselves outdoors for what may be the last time before the onset of autumn and winter. The streets are taken over by pedestrians and those using their own power to move. Activities are laid on for children and families all over the city, and many of these are organised or supervised by the police, who endear themselves to the public on this day and have an exhausting time.

The noise level in the city is much reduced, and people enjoy the fresher air and the calm atmosphere. For many, it is one of the highlights of the year and a real family day.

Text and photo © Isabelle Prondzynski


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A Car Free Day encourages motorists to give up their car for a day. Organized events are held in some cities and countries.
September 22 is World Car Free Day.



According to The Washington Post, the event "promotes improvement of mass transit, cycling and walking, and the development of communities where jobs are closer to home and where shopping is within walking distance".
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For the past few years, I have enjoyed writing haiku on carless Sunday.
Here are some of them :

carless Sunday --
the traffic lights change
from red to green

carless Sunday --
the peal of church bells
reaches my ear

once a minute
another plane takes off --
carless Sunday

the distant sound
of a baby crying --
carless Sunday


carless Sunday --
parents and children
out with their bikes


Activities for parents and children
in the Cinquantenaire Park



carless Sunday --
each bounce of the ball
so audible

the city seems
filled with human voices --
carless Sunday

two children playing
in the middle of the road --
carless Sunday

music wafts
across the roofs --
carless Sunday

seven o'clock --
carless Sunday ends
with a peal of bells

(2012)



carless Sunday --
even the smallest birds
have a voice

silencing the radio --
enjoying the sounds
of carless Sunday

carless Sunday --
the rustling of leaves
in the garden below

a small girl
dragging a small dog --
carless Sunday

even one taxi
makes so much noise --
carless Sunday


rue de la Loi
rings with human voices --
carless Sunday



(2011)



a long row
of neatly polished cars --
carless Sunday

carless Sunday --
he walks out to buy
a car

(2010)


the voices
of the smallest birds --
carless Sunday

carless Sunday --
listening to the television
instead

(2009)


a bird sings
a new song from the roof --
carless Sunday

teenagers wobble
their bicycles on the cobbles --
carless Sunday

the voices
of unseen children in the streets --
carless Sunday

carless Sunday --
left on the zebra crossing
an abandoned shoe

an aircraft takes off --
its sound floods our street
on carless Sunday

carless Sunday --
bells from a distant church
call us to prayer

sharing some sweets
with a stranger --
carless Sunday


relaxed police
buying a Tibetan lunch --
carless Sunday




carless Sunday --
rollerskating the pram
up the road

carless Sunday --
my neighbour snores all day
in his bed

cars return --
the cyclists ride home
prudently

(2007)



carfree Sunday --
voices of children playing
in the streets

carless Sunday --
tea and a read
in silence

(2005)

Haiku and photos © Isabelle Prondzynski


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carless sunday -
lovers cross the road
without care

carless sunday -
kids skate on the road
holding hands


Monday morning -
painful noise invades
Brussels

Dr. Kumarendra Mallick
India


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Henry Prince of Wales

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Prince Henry of Wales, Prince Harry

Prince Henry of Wales
(Henry Charles Albert David, born 15 September 1984),
commonly known as
Prince Harry, is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales, and fourth grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.



Therefore, he stands third in the line of succession to the thrones of sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms, and to the governorship of the Church of England, preceded by his father and elder brother, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.
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Haiku and Senryu

Harry's Naked Army!
counting summer stars
through my window

Chen-ou Liu, Canada


Note:
my haiku was written in response to the following headline:

Harry's naked Army!


Facebook group supporting prince's nude antics now has 32,000 fans

He might be in trouble with the Palace over nude photographs taken in Las Vegas, but at least he's got a few thousand (naked) shoulders to cry on.

source : www.dailymail.co.uk




my haiku written in response to
"Prince Harry named man of the year"

a cockroach crawling
across Dirty Harry
behind the girls ... more girls

Chen-ou Liu, Canada, October 5, 2012


Under the title, Tatler, the magazine does the alliteration three-step,
"selling the prince's sizzle:
The Girls, The Gangs, The Gaffes."





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a naked prince
stirrs a lot of emotions -
senryu alive

Read a heated debate here
. WKD : Kigo Hotline, September 2012 .


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Rose chafer

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Rose bug (Cetonia aurata)

***** Location: Europa
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Animal

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Cetonia aurata,
known as the rose chafer, or more rarely as the green rose chafer, rose bug, is a beetle, 20 mm (¾ in) long, that has metallic green coloration (but can be bronze, copper, violet, blue/black or grey) with a distinct V shaped scutellum, the small triangular area between the wing cases just below the thorax, and having several other irregular small white lines and marks. The underside is a coppery colour.



Rose chafers are capable of very fast flight; they do it with their wing cases down thus resembling a bumble bee. They feed on flowers, nectar and pollen, in particular roses (from where they get their name); which is where they can be found on warm sunny days,
between May and June/July, occasionally to September.

Rose chafers are found over southern and central Europe and the southern part of the UK where they seem to be sometimes very localized.
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tamamushi 玉虫 / 金花虫 (たまむし) jewel beetle
two-striped green buprestid, metallic wood borer
Fam. Julodinae, Polycsetinae
kigo for late summer


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attempting to fly off
the mellow grape,
a tipsy rose bug

s prezrelog grozda
pokušava poletjeti
pripit gundevalj

- Shared by Tomislav Maretic, Croatia -
Joys of Japan, 2012



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Pussy Riot Rock Band

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Pussy Riot Rock Band

***** Location: Russia
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Pussy Riot
is a Russian feminist punk-rock musical collective that stages politically provocative impromptu performances in Moscow, in unusual locations such as on top of a trolleybus and on a scaffold in the Moscow Metro, on Russian political life.



In March 2012, following an unauthorized anti-Putin performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, three women from the band were arrested and charged with "hooliganism".
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dark Moscow sky
one by one twitter shout-outs
to @FreePussyRiot



two female bodies...
Free Pussy Riot
scrawled in blood
September 1, 2012


Chen-ou Liu


Listen to Pussy Riot's Punk Prayer
source : www.youtube.com


(Chorus)
St. Maria, Virgin, Drive away Putin
Drive away! Drive away Putin!
(end chorus)

Black robe, golden epaulettes
All parishioners are crawling and bowing
The ghost of freedom is in heaven
Gay pride sent to Siberia in chains

The head of the KGB is their chief saint
Leads protesters to prison under escort
In order not to offend the Holy
Women have to give birth and to love

Holy shit, shit, Lord's shit!
Holy shit, shit, Lord's shit!

(Chorus)
St. Maria, Virgin, become a feminist
Become a feminist, Become a feminist
(end chorus)

Church praises the rotten dictators
The cross-bearer procession of black limousines
In school you are going to meet with a teacher-preacher
Go to class - bring him money!

Patriarch Gundyaev believes in Putin
Bitch, you better believed in God
Belt of the Virgin is no substitute for mass-meetings
In protest of our Ever-Virgin Mary!

(Chorus)
St. Maria, Virgin, Drive away Putin
Drive away! Drive away Putin!
(end chorus)


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58th Birthday –
posting “Free Pussy Riot”
on all the friends’ walls

Anatoly Kudryavitsky
August 18, 2012


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Putin and the Pussy Riot---
he must be
lonely

Fred Masarani



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Sanziana - Galium verum

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Sânziană, Sanziana

***** Location: Romania
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Plant

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Lady's Bedstraw, Yellow Bedstraw
Galium verum

Sânziană is the Romanian name for gentle fairies who play an important part in local folklore, also used to designate the Galium verum or Cruciata laevipes flowers. Under the plural form Sânziene, the word designates an annual festival in the fairies' honor. Etymologically, the name stands for sân (common abbreviation of sfânt - "saint", "holy") and zână (a word used for fairies in general). Another likely etymology is that the word comes from the Latin Sancta Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt and moon, also celebrated in Roman Dacia (ancient Romania). Diana was known to be the virgin goddess and looked after virgins and women. She was one of the three maiden goddesses, Diana, Minerva and Vesta, who swore never to marry.



People in the western Carpathian Mountains and other parts of Romania celebrate the Sânziene holiday annually, on June 24. This is similar to the Swedish Midsummer holiday, and is believed to be a pagan celebration of the summer solstice in June. According to the official position of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the customs actually relate to the celebration of Saint John the Baptist's Nativity, which also happens on June 24.

Sânziene rituals
The folk practices of Sânziene imply that the most beautiful maidens in the village dress in white and spend all day searching for and picking Galium verum. They are instructed to remain alone and unseen, especially by any males. Using the flowers they picked during the day, the girls create wreaths as floral crowns which they wear upon returning to the village at nightfall. They are then supposed to have turned into sânziene fairies, and dance in circle around a bonfire, into which all remains of the previous harvest are thrown. People are prevented from speaking to the girls during this ceremony, as it is presumed that the sânziene spirits possessing them might otherwise be angered or distracted.

In some regions, the girls may keep the wreaths until the following year's Sânziene. This, they believe, ensures a fertility for their family's land. In addition, if they place the wreath under their pillow the night right after Sânziene, it is possible that they would have a premonition of the man they are to marry (ursitul, "the fated one"). Another folk belief is that during the Sânziene night, the heavens open up, making it an adequate time for making wishes and for praying, as God is more likely to listen.

In some areas of the Carpathians, the villagers then light a big wheel of hay from the ceremonial bonfire and push it down a hill. This has been interpreted as a symbol for the setting sun (from the solstice to come and until the midwinter solstice, the days will be getting shorter).
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. Summer Solstice (geshi　夏至) .
summer equinox

geshi byakuya 夏至白夜（げしびゃくや）
white night of the summer solstice



. Golowan Festival .
Midsummer celebrations in Cornwall

Midsummer’s Day is the church feast of St John The Baptist


sei Yohanne sai 聖ヨハネ祭 (せいよはねさい)
Feast of Saint John
senja sei Yohanne sai 洗者聖ヨハネ祭（せんじゃせいよはねさい）
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
kigo for mid-summer


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Sânziene night -
the lonely girl prefers
to dream eyes opened

- Shared by Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu -
Joys of Japan, 2012



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Denmark




Denmark is based in Northern Europe and is the smallest of the Scandinavian countries. The Kingdom of Denmark also has 2 autonomous provinces – the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The latter is over 500 times larger than Denmark but has 100 times less people.
Denmark is well known for its strong welfare state, mixed market capitalist economy and has one of the most egalitarian societies in the world.
In 2010 it was voted yet again the happiest country in the world. (Gallup World Poll)
source : www.denmark.dk


Das Königreich Dänemark

Danmark

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The Climate of Denmark

Denmark has a temperate climate, the mildness of which is largely conditioned by the generally westerly winds and by the fact that the country is virtually encircled by water.

The mean temperature in February, the coldest month, is 0° C (32° F ), and in July, the warmest, 17° C (63° F ). Rain falls fairly evenly throughout the year, the annual average amounting to approximately 61 cm (24 in).
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Kigo from Denmark

Spring

. Easter - påske .

. "Easter lily", wild daffodil - Påskelilje .
Narcissus pseudonarcissus


. Soap bubbles - sæbebobler .


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"Haiku på Dansk"

haikugruppen og haikunetværket
HaikuDanmark.dk

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Johannes S. H. Bjerg

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I'm a haijin – haiku-poet. I write haiku in two languages Danish and English. In this work I try to develop a voice of my own. Haiku is traditionally a nature-based poetry-form but has developed with the conditions of the modern world. Now it concerns itself with almost every aspect of human life. And luckily so.

Some haijin (this is also the plural tense of the word) tend to insist on classical Japanese ways of writing, but many more are trying to take haiku to the 21st century. I'm one of them.
Haiku should reflect the reality of the haijin and reality these days is different from medieval Japan. Now we live with the insights of the past and thoughts and knowledge of a kind we've never experienced before. I try to make use of all the different experiences I've had during my life, all the -ism's I've encountered, the philosophies, ideas, corporeal sensations and whatever has made an impression in and on me in every kind of way.
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Hanne Hansen

to visit mother
travelling by local bus
the only passenger

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Martenitsa Bulgaria

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Martenitsa

***** Location: Bulgaria
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Observance

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Martenitsa (Bulgarian: мартеница, pronounced [ˈmartɛnit͡sa]; plural мартеници martenitsi)
is a small piece of adornment, made of white and red yarn and worn from March 1 until around the end of March (or the first time an individual sees a stork, swallow, or budding tree).

The name of the holiday is Baba Marta. "Baba" (баба) is the Bulgarian word for "grandmother" and Mart (март) is the Bulgarian word for the month of March.
Baba Marta is a Bulgarian tradition related to welcoming the upcoming spring. The month of March, according to Bulgarian folklore, marks the beginning of springtime. Therefore, the first day of March is a traditional holiday associated with sending off winter and welcoming spring.



The same tradition is also held by those in the Republic of Macedonia, as well as in Greek Macedonia and Patras in the Peloponnese.
Romanians also have a similar but not identical holiday on March 1, called "Mărţişor". If and how these two holidays are related is still a matter of debate between ethnologists.
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back from a meeting --
on my keybord waits
a martenitsa





comparing
our martenitsa --
office fun







photos and haiku by
Isabelle Prondzynski
March 2012



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Aurel Vlaicu

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Aurel Vlaicu

November 19, 1882 – September 13, 1913
was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot.



Aurel Vlaicu was born in Binţinţi (now renamed Aurel Vlaicu), Geoagiu, Transylvania. He attended Calvinist High School in Orăştie (renamed "Liceul Aurel Vlaicu" in his honour in 1919) and took his Baccalaureate in Sibiu in 1902. He furthered his studies at Technical University of Budapest and Technische Hochschule München in Germany, earning his engineer's diploma in 1907.

After working at Opel car factory in Rüsselsheim, he returned to Binţinţi and built a glider he flew in the summer of 1909. Later that year, he moved to Bucharest, in the Kingdom of Romania, where he began the construction of Vlaicu Nr. I airplane; it flew for the first time on June 17, 1910.

With his Vlaicu Nr. II model, built in 1911, Aurel Vlaicu won several prizes summing 7,500 Austro-Hungarian krone (for precise landing, projectile throwing and tight flying around a pole) in 1912 at Aspern Air Show near Vienna, where he competed against 42 other aviators of the day, including Roland Garros.

Aurel Vlaicu died in 1913 near Câmpina while attempting to cross in flight the Carpathian Mountains in his aged Vlaicu II airplane.
He is buried at the Bellu cemetery, in Bucharest.



Vlaicu was posthumously elected to the Romanian Academy in 1948.
Bucharest City Airport in Băneasa was named after him.

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Aurel Vlaicu was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot.
He died on Semptember 13, 1913,
testing a airplane, crossing the Carphatian Mountains.


Aurel Vlaicu
crossing the Carpathians
viewing the abyss

Alex Serban, Romania


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Karl Marx

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Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx
(5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883)
was a German-Jewish philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement. He published various books during his lifetime, with the most notable being
The Communist Manifesto (1848) and
Capital (1867–1894);
some of his works were co-written with his friend, the fellow German revolutionary socialist Friedrich Engels.


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Capital, Volume I (1867),
by Karl Marx,
is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy, meant to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production, and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. The first of three volumes of Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) was published on 14 September 1867, and was the sole volume published in Marx's lifetime.
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Reference

. Karl Marx .

カール・ハインリヒ・マルクス

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Haiku and Senryu

in the bank locker
my legacy to my daughter -
Marx's Das Kapital


mid-life crisis--
I settle on
Marx's Das Kapital

Manu Kant
Joys of Japan, February 2012


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Charles Dickens

(7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)



Charles John Huffam Dickens

English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters.

Many of his writings were originally published serially, in monthly instalments, a format of publication which Dickens himself helped popularise. Unlike other authors who completed novels before serialisation, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialised. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next instalment.The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.

Dickens's work has been highly praised for its realism, comedy, mastery of prose, unique personalities and concern for social reform, by writers such as Leo Tolstoy, George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton; though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, have criticised it for melodrama, sentimentality and implausibility.

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google logo in February 7, 2012

チャールズ・ディケンズ


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. Charles Dickens .


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Prince Charles leads tributes
on Charles Dickens' 200th birthday

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Duchess of Cornwall and many of the writer's descendants joined Prince Charles for a service at Westminster Abbey, with the heir to the throne describing the Oliver Twist creator as 'one of the greatest writers of the English language'.

Actor Ralph Fiennes, who is set to star in an adaptation of Great Expectations, read an extract from classic novel Bleak House before the congregation laid a wreath at Poets' Corner where Dickens was buried in 1870.
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Charles Dickens
in a bookstore window...
homeless youth's gaze

Chen-ou Liu
Canada


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Charles Dickens' birthday
few have great expectations
in these hard times

Armando H. Corbelle (Catbird 55)


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Related words

***** Personal Names used in Haiku
Introduction　




***** Introducing Japanese Haiku Poets　


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