ARTS: Haiku prompt: spring/fall

[Kokuu]

Hi all

I would love to read some haiku about the season in your area! For large parts of the northern and southern hemisphere we are moving into spring or fall, but I know that other parts of the world have different seasonal patterns.

A few to get you started from classical writers (English translations by Robert Hass from The Essential Haiku):

Midfield
attached to nothing,
the skylark singing

-- Matsuo Basho

The cherry blossoms fallen
through the branches
a temple

-- Yosa Buson

Spring rain:
a mouse is lapping
the Sumida River

- Kobayashi Issa


Some contemporary poets (from last spring's edition of hedgerow journal #127):

sunburst
more flower
than pot

-- Elizabeth Alford

making the meadow
last longer
-- crickets

-- Gary Hotham

day moon
a sick friend
brings me flowers

-- Eishuu (former member of Treeleaf)

first news
of a friend's death
blackthorn blossom

-- Kokuu


So, go feel, taste and touch nature and get haikuing!!!

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

[Kotei]

corona virus
flourishing
cherry blossoms


Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Hoseki]

This one happened to me this morning.


spring rain
arms out stretch as he
slides to his car

Gassho
Hoseki
Sattoday

[Kyōsen]

Heavy is the crown
Winter's King is slow to sleep
Spring is so patient

Gassho
Kyōsen
Sat|LAH

[Archpoet]

Nice haiku guys! <3

I should warn you upfront that I don't practice the 5-7-5 rule, I practice the "in a breath" rule. :P
And although these are not Spring/Fall themed directly, they deal in the interchangeability of seasons-- and are a couple of my better works.
Glad to share them with you, and hope you enjoy:


Summer nights.
How missed you are,
On winter mornings


One hundred islands in winter,
A fiery archipelago:
Clouds at sunset.


Gassho,
Chris

st/lah

[Kokuu]

I should warn you upfront that I don't practice the 5-7-5 rule

Few English Language Haiku (ELH) poets do now and, as you probably know, the 5-7-5 structure refers to Japanese sound units (morae) rather than western syllables which tend to be longer.


another day
in quarantine
the smell of wild garlic


Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

[Archpoet]

...the 5-7-5 structure refers to Japanese sound units (morae) rather than western syllables which tend to be longer.

Right, and there were 17 morae-- (was having trouble remembering the unit name), hence 5+7+5=17.
Btw, really love your work on this one Kokuu.

first news
of a friend's death
blackthorn blossom

-- Kokuu

[Kokuu]

You are very kind, Chris! It was published in the hedgerow journal of small poems (issue 127).

I very much like this one of yours!

Summer nights.
How missed you are,
On winter mornings


Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

[Naiko]

Ocean mist.
Trees offer new buds.
The world exhales.

Gassho,
Krista
st

[Kotei]

bowing flowers
a cat’s sudden turn
lady bumblebee

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Archpoet]

Awesome haiku KristaB and Kotei!

Here's what I wrote today, (two versions):

---------------------
in a breath

Old pines rustle
Flash! --and crack!
Forest fire.

5-7-5-er

Old pines, voice of wind--
Flash of light and thunder crack!
A forest fire.
---------------------

Gassho,
Chris
st/lah

[Nengei]

Muddy day
Frost at night
Melting snow glistens

Gassho,
Nengei
Sat. LAH.

[Heiso]

A quick off the hip haiku as I work from home. I really want to get stuck into Betty Drevniok's haiku writing exercises and put more thought into them:

Patio doors open
Slurping lollies
Sun streams in.

Gassho,

Heiso

StLah

[Tai Do]

Birds eat
Cats lurking
The moment is gone

Here is the inspiration (my cats):
IMG_5274.jpg

Gassho,
Mateus
Sat/LAH

[Ryokudo]

Hey all,

Hallelujah, I've found the haiku page! I'll be here voraciously reading alot so thank you all for sharing. I've been lucky enough to read Kokuu elsewhere and it is enriching to hear some new voices. I've been blogging haiku for a year now and I find it really helps the practice. Anywho here is one of my latest from sunny old Blighty.

A flower asks "Forget-Me-Not"
But I have already forgotten.
A bell rings
I wake and -
Remember.

Gassho,

Neilio