A Haiku Each Day
Sixty-two hundred and five Syllables a year.Archive for eye
Saturnalia
December 21, 2010 at 1:49 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Celestial, Haiku, Holidays, Human Affairs (Jinji), Moon, Night, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Day, Time of Year, Winter and tagged: color, eclipse, eye, holiday, lunar eclipse, metaphor, midwinter, moon, night, personification, red, solstice, winter
Eclipse-reddened moon
The solstice’s bloodshot eye
Closes the old year.
The winter solstice of 2010 was marked by a full lunar eclipse; if you haven’t seen one, the moon doesn’t disappear, it turns red!
Cat II
December 11, 2010 at 12:28 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Cats, Mammals, Poetry, Pseudohaiku and tagged: animal, cat, color, eye, gem, ivory, metaphor, pseudohaiku, sapphire, Siamese, statue
Ivory statue
Slowly blinks its sapphire eyes
A Siamese cat.
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