Carpe Diem #154, Shuntoo (Spring lantern)

Dear Haijin, visitors, travelers,

This month is almost over. We have still a few days to go in this all classical Japanese kigo month. I have read wonderful haiku the last few days, but I am also a bit behind with commenting on all of your lovely posts. I hope to catch up, but please don't be sad if I haven't commented yet on your posts.

Today we share haiku on Shuntoo (Spring lantern). The first thing what came in mind was the Autumn lantern. When the evenings start earlier, nights getting longer, its time to get out the lamps (consider you have no electricity in the Edo period).　

It is a time for huddeling together and become quiet looking in a candle light.

It is also a time to sit in peace and read a good book under the lamp light.

But we are busy with Spring kigo and than the meaning of Shuntoo (Spring lantern) is a more pleasant thing, with evenings getting shorter. It's also a time to huddeling together and look at the sunset when the evenings becoming longer. Sitting on the terrace or the porch together with your loved ones. When the evening goes on and the sunlight becomes less, the shadows become longer and we enter the 'twilight', lighting the candles or lamps. Shadows on the wall dancing in the candlelight ... wow what a spooky, but also romantic thought.

Credits: Japanese Lantern (Edo period)

I have found a nice haiku written by Issa on Spring Lantern:

chôchin de tabako fuku nari haru no kaze

smoking a pipe
by lantern light...
spring breeze

A wonderful haiku I think. Very well ... let's do some haiku composing myself.

on the verandah
in the light of a Spring lantern
writing haiku

writing haiku
inspired on the wonderful sunset
a Spring evening

a Spring evening
on the porch with my beloved ones -
the sound of frogs

the sound of frogs
resonates through the Spring night
young leaves rustle

young leaves rustle -
lighting sweet scented candles
on the verandah

Well ... I was on a role as you can see. I like this prompt a lot and I was inspired. I hope that you all, my dear haijin, visitors and travelers, are inspired as well to write haiku on Shuntoo. This prompt will stay on 'til March 27th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our new episode, Oborozuki (hazy moon), later on today around 10.00 PM (CET). I hope to be on time, but if not my excuses there for. I am in the nightshift and so I will maybe not be able to post on time. Just as I did today. Sorry for this late post.