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
landing in the middle
of frog silence
silence
larger on the lily pad
a frog
larger on the lily pad
a frog
delicate pastels
in the pain of a pinch
from a crab
in the pain of a pinch
from a crab
new moons
at the edge of the pond
fish milt
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
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!
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!
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