patience . . .
the promise of tree buds
waiting for spring
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©️2019 Ontheland, tree bud photo taken on November 5, 2019
Category: Poetry
first snow – – haiku
first snow
I drain a second
cup of coffee
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First snow November 7, 2019
November gale – – haiku
November gale . . .
an invisible hand
combs the grass
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November . . .
all that has withered
flies away
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life plans
life plans
trailing the sun
few birds twitter
this cold November night
a shift to C minor
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Inspired by November with Basho Day 2:
Very Early on the twenty-seventh morning of the third moon, under a predawn haze, transparent moon barely visible, Mount Fuji just a shadow, I set out under the cherry blossoms of Ueno and Yanaka. When would I see them again?…
Spring passes
and the birds cry out– tears
in the eyes of fishes
Sam Hamill (Trsl.), The Essential Basho, page 4
spinning – – haibun
“The moon and sun are eternal travellers”
~Basho
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spinning: the moon, the sun, planet earth, solar systems, the Milky Way … a spiral dance to eternity.
unity
what we always have
known and lost
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Thank you to Frank Tassone for offering a November with Matsuo Basho feature, using for inspiration Basho’s The Narrow Road to the Interior as translated by Sam Hamill. Day 1’s excerpt is this:
The Moon and Sun are eternal travelers. Even the years wander on. A lifetime adrift in a boat, or in old age leading a tired horse into the years, every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home…
Even this grass hut
may be transformed
into a doll’s house
Basho, “Narrow Road to the Interior” The Essential Basho (Trsl. Sam Hamill) pg. 3,4
windstorm – – haiku
windstorm
the sounds of Munch’s scream
paint the night
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November dawn
the furies still raging
at my window
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Image Credit: ‘The Scream’ by Edvard Munch, 1893, Public Domain
cacophony – – haiku
cacophony . . .
the sound of geese
on the wind
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