rising on the morn
moon on the hunt for fullness
deer ever watchful
This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #108: Hunter’s Moon (next full moon (nochi no tsuki)). “nochi no tsuki” translates as “next full moon,”
a kigo associated with the full moon after the harvest moon.
Images
Hunter’s Moon, October 24, 2018
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their colors aflame
shade changing with the season
the beauty of leaves
This haiku/Haiga/magnetic poetry is my response to Frank Tasone’s #Haikai
Challenge #107: Fall Foliage
If you want to try magnetic poetry, you can do it online, here.
In the days of the samurai, two ancient roads linked Japan’s two great cities of Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo). Lords would travel these routes, accompanied by armies of samurai. Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #105 – Turn Back Time offers two haiku regarding the “Samurai’s Mountain Road,” one by Yosa Buson and the other by Matsuo Bashō, as inspiration for a tanka or haiku. My response is a fusion haiku, with elements of both.
changes happening
first yellow leaf on maple
autumn upon us
Buson
quiet forest path
dry leaves stirred up by my feet
centipede scurries
Bashō (tr. Chèvrefeuille)
yellow maple leaf
following path to winter
waiting for no one
Image source: ukiyo-e.org – Kageishi in the Mountains of Hakone, by Kawanabe Kyosai
sunset slipping south
horizon telling the tale
autumn’s equinox
The Autumnal Equinox for 2019 occurs today, 23 September.
This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #105: September Equinox.
Image source: Metropolitan Museum of Art
White Crane Flying Across the Sun’s Disc, by Yashima Gakutei.
empty of promise
fields lie barren and fallow
to be whole in spring
This haiku is my response to RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge #272,
where the prompt words are empty and whole.
yellow maple leaf
following path to winter
waiting for no one
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #103 The Quest for a New Masterpiece Continues … The Start of Autumn asks us to create a gem of a haiku about autumn.
I decided to start with two of my own haiku to create a fusion haiku.
Here are the original haiku:
changes happening
first yellow leaf on maple
autumn upon us
quiet forest path
dry leaves stirred up by my feet
centipede scurries
Image: Letchworth State Park, 13 October 2007
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greeted with unease
harvest moon on horizon
rising as omen
This haiku is my response to
Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #104: harvest moon.
The Harvest Moon appeared at 11:33pm, Central Time United States, on Friday the 13th.
~ both photos taken that night ~
~ second photo is layered to include both moon and leaves focused ~
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