river's other side
listening at noon
how the time flows

nightly shadows -
a tired white cat
returning home

summer holiday -
vileness by the lake
& bright sun

At first this was my comment in Joseph Massey's Facebook.

Global Freezing

Finland, and some parts of Europe, got a long and cold spring.

Coldest for a hundred years, they say.

Continuous jet streams directly from north Pole area.

I'm calling this climate as a Global Freezing.

trying to sleep --
a cold polar airstream
not willing to

post-owned
by a mighty pine -
magpie´s twig-home

magpie's nest,
well aired home --
a late spring

http://www.climate.net.nz/heating-and-cooling/keep-your-home-well-ventilated-this-winter/#

Easter ...
celebrating
the global freezing

Visited my mother-in-law at Vinkara, Kivilahti, at Ilomantsi. (Eastern Finland.)

The word "vinkara" is said to be an old Sami or Lappish word. They are supposed to live there some thousand years ago, after the ice age. Just some names left. Vinkara means a hill with some kind of freezing wind. Nowadays there are some Sami-people (Lappish) living in Northern part of Finland, Sweden and Norway and Russia. I have some friends among them over there.

a friendly crow
flying silently -
all alone

Happy Christmas 2016!

rounded light
getting higher -
Good Christmas!

which way?

an icy silence - -
how much water
flowing anyway?

windy August day -
the sun slowly moving
westwards

old friend of mine ...
yearly income tax
papers

Juhani Tikkanen

Shiki April 2016 Free Format theme was "friend"


Friend is something or some-one you will meet every year?

Tikkis April Kigo 2016

our old sun
after vernal equinox
migrating back

(Photo added May 1st 2016)

March Kigo entry by Tikkis

canoeing
down the river
driftwood

March 2016 Kigo subject was "DRIFTWOOD"

iced dew drops
morning sun
brilliant

My Shiki Kigo entry March 2016

Key word was "DEW"

a noisy bird
keeping the whole forest
awake

Shiki Free Format Febr. 2016, "SLEEPLESS NIGHT"

Free format January 2016

frozen river ...
thick ice
moving nowhere

Free Format Theme was MOVING WATER

an unread electric bill ...
New Year's candle
flickers

January 2016 Shiki kukai, subject was First Reading.


Japanese people traditionally select some personally meaningful material to read on January 2; reading it is called the first reading of the year.

burnout candle -
darkness
snoring

(an unpublished Tikkis 2016)

Finally something like Winter

vibrating wind

fell down some clustered snow

no-one touching it

November 2015 Free format short poem

warmly lighted
evening window -
cooling street

November 2015 Free format short poem was EVENING WINDOW


(My text built by word cool.)

November Kigo

snowbird
heading sunwards -
melting wings

Bird? Snowbird is a human, traveling from freezing North Southwards.
My mother-in-law was a snowbird, she flew every autumn to Portugal, where she hired an apartemento. When sun again up and warmer in Finland she returned home...

Also everyone will remember Icarus.