Archive for October, 2010
October 31, 2010 at 11:12 am · Filed under Autumn, Food and Drink, Haiku, Holidays, Human Affairs (Jinji), Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Vegetables
Monsters squint through masks
Princesses demand candy
Even pumpkins smile.
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October 29, 2010 at 10:43 am · Filed under Autumn, Leaves, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Trees and tagged: autumn, color, gold, haiku, lawn, leaves, manuscript, metaphor, page, pun, suburb
Each suburban lawn
A page in fall’s manuscript
Burnished with gold leaves.
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October 28, 2010 at 4:48 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Life and Death, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Summer, Time of Year and tagged: bird, death, haiku, human, life, memory, mockingbird, nature, song, songbird, summer, whistle
The old mockingbird
Still imitates his whistle -
How many summers?
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October 27, 2010 at 11:22 am · Filed under Climate, Cold, Haiku, Health, Human Affairs (Jinji), Night, Pastimes, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Day, Time of Year, Winter and tagged: buson, cold, games, Go, haiku, health, night, pastime, sickness, solitaire, winter
Runny nose dripping
My Solitaire cards dampened
A long night, and cold.
Inspired by a) having a cold today and b) Buson’s haiku:
Runny nose
Alone at the Go board
Long cold night.
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October 26, 2010 at 11:10 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Bees and Wasps, Butterflies and Moths, Haiku, Insects and Spiders, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Summer, Time of Year and tagged: chrysalis, cocoon, eclose, emerge, haiku, irony, metamorphosis, parasite, wasp, wings
The chrysalis splits
Trembling fragile wings emerge
Twenty tiny wasps.
For Writer’s Island Prompt 26: Emerge
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October 25, 2010 at 9:57 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Beach, Clouds, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Morning, Ocean, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Day, Time of Year, Weather, Winter and tagged: beach, color, dawn, haiku, horizon, metaphor, morning, ocean, pink, rose, sea, sky, winter
Slates of sea and sky
Hinge on a rose horizon
The first winter dawn.
For E.E. and H.G.
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October 24, 2010 at 11:09 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Autumn, Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Seeds, Wind and tagged: autumn, breeze, haiku, metaphor, milkweed, personification, plant, purse, seeds, silver, wind
Furtive autumn breeze
Picks the milkweed’s bulging purse
Scattering silver.
October 23, 2010 at 12:17 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Autumn, Celestial, Evening, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Moon, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Transportation and tagged: airplane, autumn, contrail, dusk, evening, haiku, moon, sky, twilight
Early fall evening
A narrow airplane contrail
Punctuates the moon.
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October 22, 2010 at 9:07 am · Filed under Autumn, Food and Drink, Fruit, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko) and tagged: autumn, bowl, cooking, food, fruit, glass, haiku, pomegranate, seeds, sound
Pomegranate seeds
Loosened from translucent cells
Chime in a glass bowl.
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