fireflies again

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watching fireflies ...
the first, the second and then
ALL OF THEM !



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Fireflies (hotaru) (Japan)


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birdsong

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summer morning -
the birdsong has no end
in my valley


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Daruma Pond Frog

古池や　だるま飛び込む　水の音 furuike ya Daruma tobikomu mizu no oto this old pond - the sound of water as my Daruma jumps in

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Rana porosa brevipoda


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beetles

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piled up firewood -
sooo many beetles fighting
to survive



summer evening -
the rustling sound of
beetles fighting



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enlightenment

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staring into darkness -
the enlightenment of
just one firefly



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"A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment
in which we see into the life of things."

R.H. Blyth

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temporary enlightenment -
just a bunch of
fireflies


A bit more on Zen and such ...
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candle night -
is the spider looking for
enlightenment ?

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anthropo morphs visitors

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Collecting some haiku about visitors . . .


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visitors gone -
I am the great dishwasher,
laughs the rain




I usually leave the dirty dishes outside in a great barrel, and last night, there was a good heavenly help !



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rainy season ...
the first drop
on my Buddha's face


He sits outside in my garden and when it rains, he looks like getting the measels ...


Here he is still in the sunshine




Azalea and Shaka


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ひとり来て一人を訪ふや秋のくれ
hitori kite hitori o tou ya aki no kure

a person comes
to visit another -
autumn evening
Tr. Gabi Greve


A single person comes
To visit one alone
On an autumn evening.
Tr. McAuley




ひとり来て一人を訪ふや冬の月
hitori kite hitori o tou ya fuyu no tsuki
(1782)

a person comes
to visit another -
moon in winter

. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .



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Joys of Japan, 2012


visit ends
two sugar cubes beside
the cold tea cup

- Shared by Hengameh Ahmadi -



visit ends --
in the rear view
the sun goes down

- Shared by Arvinder Kaur -



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some of my old ones


waiting for guests ...
I sweep the path again
and again



客を待つ　吐く息ごとに　春深む

waiting for visitors -
with each breath
spring deepens



footsteps -
the nightly visitors
all exposed



summer visitors ...
the mind cluttered
with trivia



winter visitors -
two friendly demons
smile at me



preparing a teahouse for visitors

ancient tea garden -
polished leaves sparkle
in the spring sun


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Anthropomorphism (personification, gijinka　擬人化)
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Buddha and Rain

rainy season the first drop on the Buddha's head

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rose buds

raindrops on the rose buds - a letter from home

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Comments from HH Members!

Very nice, Gabi. Your third line makes me think that the letter's arrival is as nurturing as the raindrops on the rose. I really like this.

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Roses are for remembrance and love _ your 3rd line is most appropriate!
Lovely poem!

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well done, enjoyed the moment.

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i enjoyed to read your haiku, Gabi! very nice!
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Nice one, Gabi . . . and always lovely to get a letter from home.

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What I like about it is the way it lets go of the first image.
We are often so focused on playing off of that first image, resonating with it, or paralleling in some way -- prescribing, if you will, some sort of unity. This haiku is totally unforced, unconstructed I guess you could say, but nevertheless, a unified whole.
I learned from this one. Thank you for posting it.

..... GABI says:

Guard well your spare moments.
They are like uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value will never be known.
Improve them and they will become
the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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your spare moments
your treasure moments
your haiku moments

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Gabi,

I am aware that you practice shasei, because you linked to my short analysis of Joan Payne Kincaid's shasei in your blog http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/07/shasei-sketch-from-nature.html

I've been meaning to thank you for that.

Anyway, even in shasei, take Joan's as an example, there is often an authorial "construction." I don't really have appropriate language to express this. I mean some sort of intervention or interpretation. The haijin has selected the elements with an eye towards, I don't know, cleverness maybe, or beauty sometimes -- towards INTENTIONAL resonance in either case

I often feel that I can't "get" a haiku on a given day; that I can not espy some interesting elements to connect, and so, have nothing to write.

Your haiku makes no attempt tat intentional resonance.. It "let's go" (again, suffering from lack of useful phrasing) of the first image entirely, instead of try to hinge upon it or play off of it. Personally, from where I am at in my development as a haijin, I just find that very instructive and I thank you for it.

I also enjoyed the quote from Emerson, by the way, and intend to pass it along to a friend who is having a bad day today.

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Dear T.,

the difficult part is really to let go, the timing ...
After practising Japanese Archery, Kyuudoo for more than 30 years, I have come to value the exercise as a means of taiken 体験, physical experience, much more than the philosophical bubbles about it.

If you are not absolutely with the action, the bowstring will soon punish you, so to speak, with a bruise on the arm or broken spectacles or whatever ... ...
any intentions (will people like my haiku? will it go published here or there?) will hamper the natural flow ... so you have to experience the

aiming without aiming ...

I might try and put my thoughts about this

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one of these days, haha, if my arrow hits my haiku or vice versa ...

a bit of it is here
http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/04/target-mato.html

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Thank you, Gabi, that was interesting.

For me, whether someone else will like and certainly not whether it will ever get published, truly never enters my mind. It's more "Is there something WORTHY here?" Either something remarkable or a way of showing it remarkably or perhaps, does some align with something else in a way that is, well, remarkable. See what I mean?

But I do appreciate your thoughts about the arrow, which I take to mean, the direction of one's consciousness.

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This is a perfect moment... captured so well, Gabi!

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I agree...one of those rare perfect moments captured perfectly --
in awe..... xxx applauds

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meditation

morning meditation - a gray spot on my gray carpet .

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Lilies in the rain

iris in the rain - a bright star in the flower heart

little spider - trying to peek in the flower heart ??

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Flower-Heart (hana gokoro) and haiku


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Rainy Season

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rainy season -
I join my cat
for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG nap





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Cats in Paradise ..
O-Tsu and Haiku-Kun お津と俳句くん



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Fireflies

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shizukesa ya tani o mau no wa hotaru dake

静けさや　谷を舞うのは　蛍だけ



this quietude -
only fireflies dancing
in the valley



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Thirsty Butterfly

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watering flowers -
a huge butterfly waits
for his turn



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Wetterleuchten

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sheet lightning -
the frogs are quacking
louder tonight


sudden thunder -
the frogs suddenly stop
quacking right now



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Wetterleuchten -
die Froesche quaaaken lauter
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Firefly

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稲妻は　遠くなるや　初蛍


lightning
still so far away -
first firefly



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The weather has been quite unstable, but here we are with our FIRST visitor!
Looking up and then down in the valley ... what a light show !




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