Carpe Diem #1049 Fish and frogs

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

As I was preparing the prompt-list for September I ran into several "strange" modern kigo in Jane Reichhold's "A Dictionary of Haiku" and one of those "strange" modern kigo was our prompt for today fish and frogs.

When I started reading her examples for this modern kigo I sometimes smiled and sometimes had questions on my face, but they all were exquisite.

Here are a few examples for this modern kigo:

heron silence
landing in the middle
of frog silence

silence
larger on the lily pad
a frog

delicate pastels
in the pain of a pinch
from a crab

new moons
at the edge of the pond
fish milt

© Jane Reichhold

All these haiku are beauties, but I think it will not be easy to create a haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form on this modern kigo.
Of course I have tried it and I came up with the following haiku:

croaking of frogs
resonates through the valley -
cry of a new born

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... it's up to you now. This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until September 14th at noon (CET). I am on the nightshift so I hope to have time to publish our next episode, blossoms, later on. For now ... have fun!

Share your haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form inspired on frogs and fish with us all here at our Haiku Kai, a warmhearted family of haiku poets from all over the globe.

1.	woodsman	9.	Virginia Popescu	17.	Paloma
2.	白い蝶	10.	Kim M. Russell	18.	Nicole Pottier
3.	Elsie Hagley	11.	白い蝶二	19.	Anusha Das
4.	B i r g i t t a	12.	Bastet	20.	petra domina
5.	pat (jazzytower)	13.	humbird	21.	Blake
6.	Sky	14.	Janice/ Ontheland	22.	Dancing Echoes
7.	Shokunin	15.	Sri Sudha K
8.	Ken G. / rivrvlogr	16.	Leara Morris-Clark

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