One Saving Grace
Old year. New. Years advance with fewer prospects as my typical January funk sets in.
my one saving grace
being with the one I love
welcome horizon
What has to be my shortest haibun is my response to Fireworks and a Dripping Tap, the prompt from Kim at dVerse ~ Poets Pub, which is to write a haibun about our feeling towards this New Year.
Continuous Return
The years overlap
as they remind us
that all of this
is only a moment,
our perspective changing
with each sunset
/sunrise, each leaf opening
/falling, each point of light
in the infinite star-filled sky
reminding us of the possibilities
behind and before us,
yet contained in the moment,
as one year passes
and another begins.
Kerfe Roig often has a way of sending my mind in unexpected directions,
as she has done with her pantoum, January 2022: into the darkness.
old year ends
hope for better times
first day dawns
With Carpe Diem #1842: End of Year,
Kristjaan (Chèvrefeuille) reminds us that
in classical Japan (following the Lunar calendar)
there was a fifth season ”New Year.”
Using “first day” as a kigo, this senryū is my response.
Also shared with Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille
and with
Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #171 : New Year’s Day
Image source: Museum of Fine Arts Boston – First Dream of the New Year, by Kôzan
clean slate
finding words
in this newest of years
like starting over
on an empty page
If you want to try magnetic poetry, you can do it online, here.
what was
or might have been
potential
A senryū for the New Year.
Image: Sunrise on Lake Ontario
Winter’s Dark Blanket Awaits
On a fir tree dressed in snow
with a green-white brocade,
pine cones cast shadows in moonlight.
As the old year is put to sleep,
dreaming forevermore in silent night beauty,
its light germinates a New Year.
To create this poem, I’ve woven together my haiku response to Frank Tassone’s Christmas challenge with the tanka response by Lisa at Tao Talk to Frank’s New Year challenge.
Image source: unsplash.com / Aaron Burden
(edited here)
old ways cast aside
continuing on life’s path
welcoming new year
This senryū magnetic poetry is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai
Challenge #119: New Year
If you want to try magnetic poetry, you can do it online, here.
Background Image: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Sunrise on New Year’s Day at Takasago, by Katsukawa Shunkô II
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raven on bare branch
waiting for end of darkness
shadow of first light
This haiku is my response to
Frank Tassone’s #Haika Happenings #68:
first raven/crow
The raven (or crow) is considered a kigo for the New Year.
Image source: Wikimedia Commons
Crow on a Snowy Branch, by Ohara Koson
turning the last page
book closes, the next opens
revealing New Year
This senryū is my response to
Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #67: New Year.
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