first crocus

first crosus - I remember Gogh and the yellow sunflowers

. Museum Haiku
about famous people and artwork 　


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wild west

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Basho walked -
the rocky road
to the wild west


For my haiku friend Laura.






. . . THF . . . 　


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table 4 2

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table 4 2
- a romance reduced
to numbers








. Numbers used in Haiku 　



Friends are experimenting
with numbers as substitutes for words.


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my haiku friend Bill shared this :

I'm old enough to remember when

2 sweet
2 be
4 gotten

was considered very clever, a staple in high school yearbooks.


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one plus one = 3
a happy couple expecting
their first child

Catbird 55, WHC


fertility treatments
one plus one = 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8 . . . !


Bill Kenney



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bright moon

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It was about five thirty in the morning. I opened the curtains and saw bright light, like sunshine, on the rooftiles below me . . . but coming from the "wrong" side.
It looked so different from the usual early morning light on the tiles.
Then I looked up in the sky and saw the moon hang over there ... whow ...


frosty morning -
such a bright full moon
in the west



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Japanese Values

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Japanese values -
a bowl of hot miso soup
and my kotatsu





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is spring coming ?

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is spring coming ?
the sound of rain
on my roof



I have not heared this sound for quite a while.



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sunshine for two

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sunshine for two -
the cat curls his tail
around my leg



After a morning of minus 5 centigrade,
a sudden burst of warmness in the afternoon !
So we shared our special stone . . .



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weather vane

early morning - the frozen weather vane faces north

Again minus 5 centigrade this morning.


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shoveling snow

the right kigo for a day of hard work - shoveling snow ................................................................................. Hiroshige branches ................................................................................. moonscape at my feet

Start the walk from HERE
. my PHOTO ALBUM 　



. WKD : Snow (yuki　雪) 　



. THF : the kigo game 　


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snow snow snow

yahoo weather forecast too much snow to shovel a path - cabin fever

The snow clouds over Okayama prefecture, going to stay this way until tomorrow morning
IF
the weather forecast is right . . .



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sweet valentine

Valentine's Day - I send you a sweet postcard

The postoffice is selling them as KitKat Mail.

You get three pieces of chocolate and a Daruma in pink, yellow or red.


. 「キットメール」 Kit mail Daruma 　


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. Valentine's Day - KIGO 　

. Valentine and Daruma, 2012 .


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moonshine

moonshine on my snowed-in valley - promises kept . THF : Is the Clock Ticking on Haiku?

You should see the splendor of this night !

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woodpecker

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light snow -
a woodpecker hammers
in the silence





. woodpecker, kitsutsuki 啄木鳥 　


basically a kigo for all autumn, but these days I hear him every morning when I open the window.
And today, in the silence of freshly fallen snow, the sound was most eerie in the valley !




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neve leggera -
il martello di un picchio
nel silenzio

Tr. by Moussia


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new sponge

I scrub the sink with a new sponge - rain in winter

. Kitchen and Haiku　　. 　




kitchen haiku 台所俳句 daidokoro haiku
an expression coined by Takahama Kyoshi
about the female haiku poets of his time

. Introducing Haiku Poets 　



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sharing a big cup

sharing a GREAT cup with all the haiku friends - winter sunshine

. Saidaiji Oochamori 西大寺大茶盛
serving big cups of green tea at temple Saidai-Ji 　


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Isa later posted this on
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