bright burst of color
leaving blanket of dry leaves
this path to autumn
This haiku is my response to Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 152 #Poet’sChoice.
Photos taken 5 November 2019 while hiking at Painted Rock Conservation Area, Missouri.
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The current theme at Pure Haiku is Disintegrate,
and my haiku is featured today.Other responses can be seen by clicking here.
compassion absent
during both good times and bad
friendship collapses
© Ken Gierke 2019
With haiku and tanka offering an opportunity for subtlety in such few words, I find myself focusing more on Japanese poetry, lately.
This haiku is part of our theme of Disintegrate.
leaves swirling madly
bare sycamore holding fast
in withering wind
This haiku is my response to
Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #111: withering wind.
This haiku is my response to
Carpe Diem #1773 … A Field of Dried Grass (Basho),
which offers a haiku by Bashō (in blue) as inspiration.
Bashō’s is considered his Jisei no ku, or deathbed poem.
falling sick on a journey
my dream goes wandering
over a field of dried grass
Bashō (tr. Chèvrefeuille)
facing the unknown
dried grass near the end of life
how long this journey
Image source: unsplash.com / Rodion Kutsaev
leaves in autumn rain
apples ready for harvest
beginning of life
This haiku/haiga is my response to Carpe Diem
Weekend Meditation #108 CD Imagination … Still Life,
which offers an image by Dina Belenko for inspiration.
Image source: Bored Panda – Dina Belenko
doorbell in the night
greeting costumed revelers
spirits roam the streets
This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #110: Halloween.
Image source: freepik.com
traveling alone
long road through empty farm fields
scarecrow companion
This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #109: Scarecrow.
Image source: Library of Congress
Chinese soldier and scarecrow, by Kiyochika Kubayashi
(edited here)
