Carpe Diem Haiku Special #147 - "Those Fireflies" by Yosa Buson

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Today's CD Special was composed by one of Basho's spiritual disciples, Yosa Buson, author of today's haiku special:

longing for the grass

at the bottom of the pool

those fireflies.

© Buson

As you can see today's episode is dedicated to fireflies one of the summer kigo!  In the past on Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, our host Chèvrefeuille has already introduced us to a lovely firefly haiku by Basho and by other haiku poets, let's have a look:

at sun down

the fragile light

of a firefly

© Basho

Kisa Lagoon--

sparkling with fireflies

the rice planting boat

an evening spot

for calling fireflies...

planting a willow

© Issa

cool clear water

and fireflies that vanish

that is all there is...

© Chiyo-Ni

Now back to Yosa Buson's haiku ... I imagine a moonless summer evening, out in the fields a pool of water that cools the sun-burnt fields of grass, which have become yellow stubs, only a memory of what once was high grass.  You can feel the heat radiate from the ground and then, suddenly, the first flash of those fairy lights in the evening sky - fireflies! 

The goal of a Carpe Diem Special is to write a haiku in the same sense, tone and spirit as the one written by our featured haiku-poet, today Yosa Buson, so here's my attempt:

Gregory Crewdson

burnt summer grass
near the shimmering pool
first fireflies

© G.s.k. ‘15

Please share your inspired haiku below and I hope you will enjoy yourselves! Ciao, Bastet

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until May 17th at noon (CET).