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(an unpublished Tikkis 2016)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.

Tikkis October 2015 Kukai entry

scarecrow's
thin bones freezing -
harvest moon

October 2015 Kukai, wherein Kigo subject was SCARECROW

September 2015 kigo entry WINDSTORM

rough sea
windstorm tearing up
the waves

I also had one variation:

Sleepy wind ...
autumn windstorm
cancelled

wild geese
heading southwards
a starlit night

This was "hiding" inside my notebook. That was a sketch for Shikimontly Starlit night---

Text reminds me about something, perhaps there is a similar haiku somewhere?

That's why I did not sent that into Shikimontly...

Path

got lost?
the path not returning
from an old forest

Shikimonthly August 2015 text, Free Format Theme was PATH


(Original text without picture.)

bright
starlit night -
burglar's nightmare

This was my entry for The Shiki Monthly Kukai August 2015,
Kigo subject was STARLIT NIGHT

between
crows caws
a ceased wind

Julu 2015 Shiki Free Format Theme was QUIET

sleepless night -
our air conditioner
sweating too

My Shiki July 2015 Kukai text,
Kigo subject was HOT/TROPICAL NIGHT

midnight -
the sun, neither mosquitoes,
don't sleep

an old boat
resting a while -
wind from the river

drunken sailor
from his roaring forties
returning home

May 2015 Free Format subject was RETURNING HOME