Caring About Our World Reflecting About Life
on this blue sphere
seasons excite retinal cells
doors of spectral light
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who will colour autumn when we are gone?
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Chèvrefeuille, host of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, provides us with this image (found on Pinterest) with the suggestion to find an impression of autumn and to express it in a haiku or other Japanese poetry.
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still in November
geese fly low over the road
some depart in V’s
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We shiver awake in late autumn
As the sun sleeps
we make breakfast and tea
Until the sky brightens
with solar glow
to light our way.
more dark than light
in this somnolent time
my lamp flickers
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Note: I have combined a cherita with a haiku to create a “cherita haibun” for Carpe Diem #1544 which features “autumn lamplight” a kigo (season word) for Japanese haiku.
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our love,
lamplight
at dusk
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In response to Carpe Diem #1544 featuring “autumn lamplight” a traditional kigo (season word) for Japanese haiku.
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retro radio
I catch up
with my teen era
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autumn slush rain
fresh colour on the road
lemon puddles
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defog on high
no heat on the floor
the wipers squeak
a doleful autumn preview
of winter driving
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I wrote the closing tanka in response to Carpe Diem #1543 Rainstorm which challenges us to write haiku or tanka about a rainstorm without referring to it directly.
My father left this world almost 30 years ago.
Strolling an autumn path inhaling its fragrance, hearing its rustle, I remember the hills near my childhood home.
in the Gatineau
time unwinds in autumn winds
hiking with father
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For Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, November 7th 2018 the voice of the wind
“Haibun” is a literary form originating in Japan traditionally composed of prose and haiku.
autumn trek
in meadow winds
droning in my ears
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droning in my ears
entrains all that wanders
in fall’s flurry
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in fall’s flurry
before the long rest
a clutch of geese
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