Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
Yesterday we entered our mid-summer kigo and today our prompt is very specific related to mid-summer. Today we share haiku on Samidare (midsummer rain). Samidare or midsummer rain refers to the rain during the Rainy Season (from mid-june to mid-july).
I found a nice haiku by Basho. In this haiku he uses Samidare, but in his time, Samidare stood for rain in the first lunar moon of Summer (May). Later Samidare became a kigo for the Rainy Season.
the sun's way:
hollyhocks turn toward it
through all the rains of May
(c) Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
after a hot day
lightning and thunder
midsummer rain
midsummer rain
finally the heat has gone
after a hot day
almost naked
ah! that coolness
ah! that coolness
raindrops on my naked body
hot Summer day
OK ... that was it for today ... have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here on Carpe Diem. This prompt will stay on 'til June 13th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our next episode, Taue (Rice Planting), later on today around 10.00 PM (CET).
Namaste
Oh yes that summer rain, which probably is quite different in Japan, it rained a lot when I was there in august once.... and I remember umbrellas umbrellas (I have never seem so many umbrellas)..
ReplyDeleteA really wonderful prompt, Kristjaan. And I must say I enjoyed your haiku as much as the one you had chosen by Matsuo Basho.
ReplyDeleteI loved your haiku.. they very well capture the feeling when it rains in the midsummer days. :)
ReplyDeleteCascading like the mid-summer rain - lovely Kristjaan :)
ReplyDeleteWe're experiencing a lot of this today so it's very apt, thanks
ReplyDeleteLovely prompt..enjoyed this episode...thank you
ReplyDeletePeace
Siggi