rain falls in torrents
oak leaves turn to face the wind
darkness comes early
This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai
Challenge #151: first (autumn) storm/Darkness.
On the traditional Chinese calendar,
autumn begins in early August.
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leaves rustle
a dark horizon
winds of change
This haiku is my response to Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 188, #ThemePrompt, with inspiration from the quote provided by Sue Vincent:
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows
how to listen to them, can learn the truth.” (Herman Hesse)
summer heat
forest gives refuge
in oak’s shade
Carpe Diem Exploring the Beauty of Haiku
#1828 Baransu (balance) discusses balancing
a haiku through association in its lines, or choosing
one element of a line to proceed to the next.
Here that association is from heat to refuge to shade.
I think this is the technique I use most often.
Image: One of the many oaks on the trails at Runge Nature Center in Jefferson City, Missouri
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
