fading winter moon
on unlit back roads
rainbow lights sparkle
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Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, November 28th 2018, long night (yonaga)
Tag: Heeding Haiku
time travel
I travel back 300 years before my lifetime. I move in time but not in space staying rooted to this spot on earth. Who lives on this soil? What grows here? If I could, I would see the whole story unfold from the beginning. We are specks, our history a blip in billions of years.
full rainfall at last
how long will these trees thrive
on rock and clay?
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a summer spring
I wake up to a rushing sound. ‘It’s raining’ percolates my sleeping mind with a splash of pleasure… a break from hot sunny days will be pleasant…after all, it’s spring. The seeds I will plant prefer cool soft breezes over sultry winds. I sit up…golden light flickers behind the blind…the rotating fan purrs like rain.
planting seeds
sweat streams down my face
where is spring?
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Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille May 30, 2018, Sunny Days
The photo is from Pixabay.com.
Fusion haiku featuring Basho
In his ‘fusion’ or ‘crossroads’ haiku challenges Chevrefeuille takes two haiku and invites us to create a new one inspired by both. His Heeding Haiku prompt for the week proposes a fusion of two Basho haiku translated by Jane Reichhold:
from a treetop
emptiness dropped down
in a cicada shell
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black forest
whatever you may say
a morning of snow
©️Basho (1644-1694), translated by Reichhold
I have written two haiku, each inspired by both of Basho’s poems.
late summer mayhem
shrill calls from the dark forest
lovers’ armour thrown
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in wooded shade
peace in another world
tangled mind unwinds
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