Sunday, October 5, 2014

10.4 CD 110 : ...crickets cry...



10.5...crickets cry...

cold stone moon at four
in the afternoon, crickets
cry to far to hear

©JP/dh

Please to see the post for information about Shiba Sonome,
other masters, our host and other contributors inspired pieces.  

Note: After leaving the grocery store I looked up into the blue sky,
(We had rain and cloud filled skies for the good part of two days)
At around four thirty, the moon was as white as the surrounding clouds.
Just a little shaven off the left ‘chin’. A really lovely sight.

Saturday, October 4, 2014

tropic topic?


Shardorma/Brevette:
tropic topic?

the birch trees
where their witnesses
as they left
escaping
winter riding for summer
permanent snow birds

children
entering
paradise  

©JP/dh

Friday, October 3, 2014

Bonus 3 : CE 575 spearflower : ...hen's eyes...

Bonus 3 ...hen’s eyes...


too many hen’s-eyes
blinking without seeing seed
no beaks, no gossip

©JP/dh
10.3.14

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardisia_crenata

Note: I looked up ‘manryo’ and one of the plants names is ‘hen’s-eyes’

Bonus 2 : 10.3 CD 574 Fire ...opal...

Bonus 2 10.3 ...opal...


American sentence:

opal burns reflecting imperfections; all that is what I am

©JP/dh

10.3 CD: ...kaeru chirps

10.3  “Reciting Frog” / ...kaeru chirps...


kaeru chirps briefly
for autumn; then she burrows
deep in the creek mud

©JP/dh                



furuike ya kawazu tobikamu mizu no do

the old pond:
a frog jumps in, -
the sound of the water

© Basho (Tr. R.H.Blyth)

te wo tsuite uta moshiaguru kawaza kana

placing his hands on the ground,
the frog respectfully recites
his poem

© Sokan (Tr. R.H. Blyth)

danro kounotori no sakebi no maede kaeru no kareno seishitsunitaishite

against his nature,
a frog in front of the fireplace -
the cry of a stork

© Yozakura

Thursday, October 2, 2014

10.2 CD 573 ...cookies...

10.2 ...cookies...



would have could have stood
if the waves were not so rough
tossed my cookies

©JP/davh

Note: Sometimes vacations are not full of the best weather.
Glass bottom boat tour guide said - If you are going to heave-ho
do so over the outside of the boat. I complied.

(Years ago...)

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

10.1: Ha: ...bonus...

10.1 ...bonus...

choose three random words and write a haiku:
(bookmark, trouvaille, orphan)








orphan amid words
bonus, trouvaille for some
to me any bookmark

©JP/davh


Note:
trouvaille: (n.) something lovely, discovered by chance; a windfall