10/21/2008

frog on rose

  
  



01 frog on rose wide till 04





watering plants ...
my frog takes his shower
on a red rose




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My Karl the Froggie   .. 蛙とカラー


..... Frog in Buddha's Eye 仏の目にカール君




Thank you, Terry, for the arrangement!



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kigo for roses in all seasons


. Rose (bara 薔薇) .




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10/20/2008

lunch outside

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lunch outside ...
a little bee explores
my salted plum



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10/14/2008

autumn deepens

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autumn deepens ...
a mosquitoe floats
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This haiku has two kigo.

One is strong, autumn.
One is weak, mosquito for all summer, since we encounter this animal in other seasons too.
In that case the two kigo do not collide.


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Gabi,
I am always fearful of using two kigo in a haiku because I don't know how. It helps a little that you have characterized these as 'strong' and 'weak', and that 'mosquito' is the weak kigo because one can find these insects in other seasons. ???
Could you speak to this a little more?
L.


Answer
... this was part of the teaching of Hasekawa Kai sensei the other day on NHK. Other sensei often say the same.

One kigo is of course best, but since the situation sometimes calls for more than one, like my friend in the bathtub this morning, there is no harm done to be true to the situation.

If you follow my own link, there is a bit from Bill Higginson about the use of two kigo, along the same lines. He uses the word DOMINANT for the strong one.

To be on the safe side,
only use one kigo in your own haiku and
enjoy the ones with two by the master poets ...

is another piece of advise I often hear in Japan.

Gabi


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Mosquitoes are best in summer in Japan. Now, as autumn deepens, even they get weaker and once in a while I find one in my bathtub (this never happens in summer).
So they show me the cycle of life during the seasons and I use two kigo here, one for my moment in the bathtub and one for the flow of the seasons in the life of the animal.

They remind me that for all of us the end comes when the circle of our life energy is completed.


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10/11/2008

take your time

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Don’t be fooled by the calendar.
There are only as many days in the year

as you make use of.
One person gets only a week’s value out of a year
while another person gets

a full year’s value out of a week.

Charles Richards




take your time ...
one week, one year
one haiku




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10/10/2008

warm autumn

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mid-autumn ...
the sunshine speaks
SUMMER



Yesterday it was more than 25 degrees centigrade in many parts of Japan, including here.
Talk of global warming ... !


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10/04/2008

snail

  
  



02 snail hangs on leaf




gravity -
a snail clings to
a leaf







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10/01/2008

unkai

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sea of clouds ...
the focus changes
from here to there



sea of clouds ...
the whiteness sculptures
green islands



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9/29/2008

Haiku Temple

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a friend asked :

if a haiku is a temple,
will I go inside to burn insence
or to count the syllables?

Happy Haiku Forum



. . . . . . . . . In my Japanese Haiku Temple

I burn incense to calm the mind
I use my rosary with 17 beads
five seven five

I read my Good Book, called
saijiki, full of seasons best words
kigo, the pillars of my prayer

I wiggle my fingers as a means
of saying my prayer ...
after all, this is a Haiku Temple

sometimes I pause
.....................................KIREJI
and start again with fresh inspiration

in my final thoughts
I embrace all poets with my

one short breath mumblings



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I miss many things
I find "freedom"
but I wonder and wonder


October 2004 on a rainy morning


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L’oiseau sur la branche
chante la liberté
retrouvée.

The bird on the branch
sings the freedom
recovered.


- Shared by Patrick Fetu -
Joys of Japan, 2012



. Freedom of expression and Haiku .


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Rosaray (nenju, juzu)  念珠、数珠, 誦数



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rainy morning

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rainy morning ...
the sea of clouds wraps around
distant mountains





Typhoon Nr. 15 is approaching !




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9/24/2008

higan

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烏鳴く 彼岸の朝の 烏鳴く
karasu naku higan no asa no karasu naku


crows crowing
on the morning of higan
crows crowing



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September 23
higan is the time to visit the graves of the ancesters.


. Autumn Equinox (aki higan) Japan


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9/21/2008

too much work - feather

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too much work ...
this feather hangs
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A spider sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.


Check this gem found on the way ...



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. Feather, feathers .



WASHOKU ... MY WORK




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9/16/2008

autumn sunset

  
  



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autumn sunset ...
patterns of my life
in the sky





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autumn sunset ...
patterns of my life
in the sand





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autumn sunset ...
patterns of my life
in the water



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Shiraishi Sunset September 2008
The Photo Album

From 01 to 70.



Benten Island Album






白石島 遍路 Shiraishi Island Henro Pilgrimage 2006



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9/09/2008

ten takashi

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天高し人間の世は虫の声


high autumn sky ... 
in the world of men
voices of insects





...and in Italian (5-7-5):

cielo d'Autunno
nel mondo degli uomini
voci d'insetti


Bellissimo!

Moussia



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I start with the autumn sky, because this is where the mind wandered first ... free in the blue and clear eternity
then reminded that we are in the world of men after all

and now, at my feet, so to say, all these insects (humans) making their noises ...

So the order is given by the way things evolved on this afternoon. zooming in on the idea.



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9/05/2008

tribute to Hortensia Anderson

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September 2008


Hello,

Would anyone be willing to provide some frank, frighteningly
intelligent and stern criticism/feedback?

Best Regards,
Mu...


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Hi Mu...


invisible haiku ...
my intelligent criticism
also invisible



But you can find some of my advise for haiku here
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2000_07_01_happyhaiku_archive.html



:o)

GABI

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Ah but was the haiku invisible or non-existent?
Which then begs the question, can the same be
said for the "intelligent criticism"? ;-)

Invisible haiku follows:


hortensia anderson

I await your invisible intelligent criticism, Gabi.
Somehow, I know exactly what it will say!

- hortensia ;-)

(just playing around with Gabi -
who tirelessly maintains informative websites
which I refer to constantly -
check them ALL out!!!)

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Hi hortensia

have a look at my invisible haiku below !

:o)

invisible haiku ...
my intelligent criticism
also invisible




Can you make it visible ?
Some things are invisible, but existent in my mind
... like your own invisible haiku







Hmmmm...

Sound -- invisible
Smell -- invisible
Feeling -- invisible
Taste -- invisible

I would venture to say, Bashou's famous invisible haiku was about the
sound of water, perhaps, many of the not so invisible intelligent
criticism was "all wet"?!
chibi

but then again, if it was a play off of Basho, wouldn't lack of sound criticism be the deepest sound of all
xyz

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hortensia anderson
April 26, 20012


Dear Facebook friends,
My cancer has metastasised to my bones with many tumours in my left hip. The prognosis is poor so I shall post rarely if at all.
I want you to know, you have been an inspiration - without you, my poems would not, could not exist.
With all the love in the world and then some...

just as I think
i can't stand the pain,
a blossom passes
and I cling to this life
while learning to let go...


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May 22, 2012


Hortensia Anderson
24 June 1969 - 22 May 2012


Hortensia passed away in the morning,
after major surgery, 31 years on dialysis and
beating cancer in 2009.




The Plenitude of Emptiness
hortensia anderson : collected haibun
with an introduction by Jim Kacian

"Half a century has passed since that June breath I took at rising dawn.
I know I must give it back.”

hortensia



Hortensia's BLOG

The Plenitude of Emptiness


Monday, March 19, 2012
Haibun - As A Wave

As A Wave

Sitting on the jetty, I can feel the stillness as a wave, having risen, crests -
then, falling, is silent, rolled back into itself.

How I yearn to roll back into myself, to merge with the ocean as a wave.

indigo tides -
a full moon
tugs at the tides


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Hortensia Anderson lives on the lower east side of New York City. She is the author of numerous chapbooks as well as a volume of poetry, Trust (fly-by night press, 1995). She is interested in the function of the Internet on poetry in the 21st century. Her current passion is renga and other forms of collaborative poetry.

She has been on dialysis since 1981.

spring thaw —
the stream parts to embrace
the stone


Mainichi - Best of 2002



midnight swim —
we glide through the galaxy
naked


5th Annual Suruga-Baika Winner



moonlit night —
the pond floats
a water-lily



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An Interview With Hortensia Anderson
by Robert D. Wilson

RW:
You've written more than one book of occidental poetry and have an international following. Your poetry is poignant, with the rare ability to reach inside a person's psyche, causing that person to react and think.

Take this example from your book, Trust (Fly By Night Press):

"Like an undercooked egg"
the surgeon said the boy
was ready to rupture right
on the table.

They had me in stitches
to keep me from bursting,
scar crossed forever
front and

Back on dialysis and dilaudid.

The nurse brings out
my demons. Christ
kills me. She says she's

Born again.
As if once weren't enough.


source : simply haiku 2005

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another sake --
the cranes on the porcelain
start to fly


the long walk home
after the funeral -
winter trees


handblown glass -
cirrus clouds curve
around the moon




Softly, the clouds slip
away from an azure sky
above Saint Mark's Church graveyard
an angel loiters
beneath a plum tree in bloom
petals fall on wings of stone.



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Hortensia and Amazon dot com

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pink weeds

  
  


autumn deepens ...
these tiny pink flowers
on my wildest weeds






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