ballet of fireflies
bids farewell to fading light
evening chill sets in
This haiku is my response to Carpe Diem
Exploring the Beauty of Haiku #1827 Paradox.
I see it more as irony, and perhaps this includes two instances?
Also shared with Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday
#Poetry Challenge No. 185, #Poet’sChoice.
Image source: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Tree Cricket and Firefly, by Kitagawa Utamoro
neighborhood fireworks
buck moon answers with silence
fireflies agree
This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #146: Buck Moon.
The July full moon is known as the Thunder Moon,
Hay Moon, Wort Moon, or Buck Moon.
Image source: KOMO News
red cardinal
at the bird feeder
squirrel stealing seeds
The prompt for Carpe Diem
– Exploring the Beauty of Haiku
is to write a haiku using the apokoinou
technique of writing – the second line acts
as an extension for the first line
and as a beginning for the third line.
kingfisher
finds morning beauty
wild iris
This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s
#Haikai Challenge #144: wild iris.
Image source: Wikimedia Commons
Iris and Kingfisher, by Ohara Koson
solstice passed
nights growing longer
crescent moon
This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #144: Solstice I.
Image: Crescent Moon (16%) 24 June 2020 ~ 8:00pm CST (left) & 10:00pm CST (right)
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school of gar splashes
startled by passing kayak
a kingfisher dives
This haiku using the kigo of kingfisher is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai
Challenge #143: Choose-your-own
Summer Kigo.
This actually occurred yesterday while I was kayaking.
Image source: Smithsonian/National Museum of Asian Art
Kingfisher, by Tsukioka Kōgyo
hard rains bring wet spring
tall grass grows beneath the trees
where are the fireflies
This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai
Challenge #142: firefly.
Image source: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Firefly and Spider Web, unknown artist
dry grass turns
seeks gift from above
summer rain
This haiku is my response to Rain,
the prompt from Sarah at dVerse Poets Pub.
Also linked to Colleen’s 2020Weekly #Tanka Tuesday
#Poetry Challenge No. 180 #Poet’sChoice.
Photo by Kat Jayne from Pexels
lovely song
music heard by all
a bird breathes
This haiku is my response to
Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #141: Justice,
which reminds us of the growing list of black lives lost
in a cycle that seems unending.
Image source: whitehouse.gov
The prompt for MTB: 5-Line Japanese Poetic Forms from Frank at dVerse Poets Pub is to write a tanka, kyoka, or gogyohka. Frank discusses each of the forms. I’ve tried to cover all three, in order. This series was a hard one to write.
bird with broken wing
beneath broken cedar branch
saved by helping hands
must be returned to the wild
before wild nature returns
broken clouds
in coming storm
offer hope
only an illusion
everything is gray
a soul is troubled
looking for escape
safe haven offered
troubles multiply
everyone suffers
Image source: Wikimedia Commons (edited here)
