Friday, December 30, 2011

windy slush
scattering all over -
my white hair


Thursday, December 29, 2011



withering year
December rain flushing
the windowsill



Saturday, December 24, 2011

starry night -
warmest stars just behind
the hilltop



Wednesday, December 21, 2011

One More Path of Looking at the Puddles



puddled path -
the only growing thing
is the swollen river

Monday, December 19, 2011


how on earth
this old puddle spent
it's long night?



This December is one of the warmest for a long time. And rainy. And dark. Anyway we got the sun up here some six hours, when my friend up there in Utsjoki none hours. (Their Sun will rise up 17th Jan next year over there.)

This text got a version where "puddle" = magpie. Tried to catch the magpie with my camera; didn't succeed. Only thing remains still when I have my camera is this old puddle...

If the rains will continue: Thirteen Ways of Looking At a puddle ?-)

Sunday, December 18, 2011

green bananas ...
after twelve days and night
a New Year's eve!



I just had a conversation with my Friend Samuli. He lives now in Addis Abeba. (Addis Abeba = New Flower.) He just bought some bananas; yellow ones with some dark spots...

Thursday, December 15, 2011

This one could be as a comment for Marcel Peltier... Anyway, here:

drifting snowflakes -
my uncombed
hair



They say that an iceberg is drifting ...
Where to, reaching it's destiny down there?

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

warm westerly winds -
just ten days
before Christmas

Monday, December 12, 2011


a lit up tree
in a windy park -
the rain passed around


Monday, December 05, 2011



Brighter the streetlamps
the shadows deepening -
December!

Sunday, December 04, 2011

Warm December -
someone cancelled
the whole winter?


Thursday, December 01, 2011




December 1st noon -
The sun
behind the treetops


Wednesday, November 30, 2011



- Enter! I said.
Someone knocked on the windowsill.
The rain.


Tuesday, November 29, 2011


a wet path -
the lamppost illuminating
itself


Monday, November 28, 2011


drifting clouds -
the only clothing
for the whole sky?


Thursday, November 24, 2011

crow
flying from the forest
by heart



This one is my comment for Ogaks, in NOBO mailing list.

Monday, November 21, 2011



this cold night -
still in tune
o wind chime?


Sunday, November 20, 2011

warming up
the chilly sky -
smoke from chimneys?


Saturday, November 19, 2011


growded parking lot -
no room left for
winter's first snow


Tuesday, November 15, 2011

windy
autumn day -
a lone crow




I have not seen so many crows. Just sparrows and a some magpies. Our maple tree is quite leafless; ready for wintry storms? I was happy when saw one crow! Now I have spottered three different birds! And two squirrels, And one honest-looking white cat.

Not yet snow here.

Friday, November 11, 2011




city lights -
the sky unclothes
the clouds



Thursday, November 10, 2011




hello!
naked maple,
me too!

Not yet any snowshowers.
But it's getting cooler; +3 C today. (+ 37 F) ... trying to engage maple tree in conversation ...





I wonder
are you still alive -
o leafless maple

Wednesday, November 09, 2011



bright side
of our maple tree
is leafless, too

Tuesday, November 08, 2011




maple's leaves
falling away -
squirrel's home



Monday, November 07, 2011



o maple tree -
you? but I feel happy
with my white hair


Sunday, November 06, 2011

Darkening days -
some more died leaves
hurrying down




This is one variation from the Yellow (= died) leaves.
Autumn is proceeding; continued voyage of yellow leaves...


Died leaves -
what's left
for the long winter?

Saturday, November 05, 2011



an unused path
growded with
yellow leaves


Friday, November 04, 2011

1.

November rain
playing with wind chime -
a leaping cat



2.

an untuned
wind chime solo -
flying leaves


Thursday, November 03, 2011


The boat going
to cross the seaway -
autumn waves

Monday, October 31, 2011


young leaf
fallen on the wet asphalt -
cruel October

Sunday, October 30, 2011




rained leaves -
the park
turning yellow


Saturday, October 29, 2011




lone crow
on leafless branches
seeking company


Friday, October 28, 2011



cold rain
on red leaves -
a happy autumn


Tuesday, October 25, 2011



desert -
wind driven sand
celebrating




Saturday, October 22, 2011

shadow
over Libyan desert -
an unburied lion


Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Autumn is approaching us. But it is quite warm. (+ 10 C, +51 F). Trees know what is going on, anyway; continously yellow, red and brown leaves all over. Winter tyres to be changed soon etc. Preparing to start our warming systems.

visiting us
o cold autumn wind -
greetings from?




Issa, - perhaps? wrote this one:

welcome!
o autumn wind
- a nice cup of tea?

Monday, October 17, 2011



lonely scarecrow -
does he also
feel old



Ps:
This one is something to do with Magyar's:

http://magyar-haiku.blogspot.com/2011/10/float-picking-of-cranberry-bogs.html

Sunday, October 16, 2011



a broken branch
among yellow leaves -
a distressed squirrel




This a variant for this text:

happy squirrel -
some more unused
cones left




See:


(Ashi's photo-haiga)

Friday, October 07, 2011



Windy autumn -
after yellowed leaves
a lively rainfall


Monday, October 03, 2011


that rotten smell?
deep inside the forest
the autumn



Somehow I will admit that here is something familiar with Santoka's two-liner:

that sound
the rain?

Saturday, October 01, 2011

Kawai Sora & autumn

Nobo is a mailing list where many haikuist are sending their haiku, and also discussing what is haiku. Today I sent a comment with a haiku there, and because everyone in this world is not a nobo-member I copy my text also here:

Knowing that a real haiku is something to do with any season, plus, my opinion also something very human, if not just in these lines but around it.

Just thinking Kawai Sora's haiku when he left Bashoo (for several days?!) and could not sleep well, my distant comment:

autumn side
of the mountains -
do you get along?




label:
Basho, Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Interior) (1694)

Friday, September 30, 2011



Noiseless river -
a red maple leaf
bathing

Friday, September 23, 2011



Behind those hills
the sun is going to move?
- Autumnal equinox.



Just one hour ago she passed us, the Sun. It's Autumnal Equinox. We will also leave Muonio. Tomorrow morning.

Thursday, September 22, 2011


This male reindeer
watching the approaching
autumnal equinox?

Wednesday, September 21, 2011


Ferryboat's busy day -
crossing the fjord eastwards,
then westwards.


We visited Norway / Lyngen-fjord yesterday. Windy but sunny day. We had a good travel schedule; driving first 300 km up (186 miles) and then turned back. That 300 km was by the Kåfjord. I followed how this small ferry boat sailed from the west side of Lyngen-Fjord. When returned backwards I looked to the North, and that same ferryboat was there now sailing from the east to the west. (Lyngseidet.)

We had nice cups of coffee from our thermos, and headed back homewards. (Our home is now in Muonio; we hired a cottage for one week herefrom.)

Our thermos run of, no more coffee. Just kilometers after kilometers..

See below:



This was yesterday, so we survived!

Tuesday, September 20, 2011




empty lake -
just one lonely bird
swimming

Monday, September 19, 2011




sunny side
of this rotten plank
hoary parched


Sunday, September 18, 2011


Autumnal trees -
my camera fished
two fishers

Thursday, September 15, 2011


a red cottage -
fresh breeze passing
the shore



We are proceeding northwards. Intending to jubilate next week's autumnal equinox at 68 degrees North ... (This one is from the Bay of Bothnia, Kalajoki, where we are staying this night.)

Wednesday, September 14, 2011



waiting
the sun rising -
morning train


Tuesday, September 13, 2011



air cleaning -
white clouds, too,
washed up


Sunday, September 11, 2011




Sunday's sunrays
turning here
to visit me?


I've been lazy writing here. Sorry for that.


Says
been busy -
a lazy poet

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Tall Ships at Turku


Baltic Tall Ships Regatta 26.-28.8.2011 visiting Turku. Excellent weather. Those vessels are leaving tomorrow. Now resting here, in Turku.

a flagging ship -
noon sun
floodlights the wind



A bonus:



just a few ropes -
expecting fair
tailwinds



Thursday, August 25, 2011



Strawberry field -
senile scarecrow
watching itself


Saturday, August 20, 2011

Busy August -
too lazy
to write a haiku?


Following is a neat version for this:

August rain -
I forgot to buy
sugar



Tuesday, August 09, 2011


watering can
rotating the rainbow's
day off


Thursday, July 21, 2011



thundery showers -
a squirrel jumps from the pine
into the oak

Saturday, July 16, 2011




Some rust was found in our roof. We had to order a painters' team to solve that problem.

Painting took some more days we expected due to some rain...

* * *

Our nights are getting longer down here, in Turku.

My friend told me they'll have a sunset next week. He lives at Utsjoki, in Lappland. (H 24 sunny period begun at May 20th.)

Streetlamps needed longer and longer...


Shiny nights -
street lamps'
rusted memory

Sunday, July 10, 2011



hurry up -
the sun is ready
also for you


Wednesday, July 06, 2011



silent forest -
cuckoo laid its eggs
in mosquitoe's nest?


Monday, July 04, 2011


before the autumn
I'm going to change
my mind

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Reidar Särestöniemi 1925 - 1981


Artist Reidar Särestöniemi lived at Kittilä. One of his ateliers in the photo. That area is as a museum now, there is also a good cafe. By the river Ounasjoki also his childhood-home left as a museum. (Near this house.)

in the forest
one man's house -
& some mosquitoes



Some more photos here: http://juhanitikkanen.blogspot.com/2011/06/kekkosen-jalkia-kittilassa.html
and here:

http://juhanitikkanen.blogspot.com/2011/06/reidarin-museosta-jalkivaikutteita.html


and here:

http://mataleena.blogspot.com/2011/06/reidar-sarestoniemi.html

Friday, June 17, 2011

Lassagammi & Ailu


Some 40 years ago I visited many times my friend Ailu. At that times he lived (when stayed in Finland) in Pättikkä, place by the Swedish border in Finland's Lappland.

Ailu (Nils-Aslak Valkeapää) died a couple years ago. He built a new house over there, Skibotn in Norway, just before he died. That building is now sort of artists' residence.


nobody at home -
with the wind
a soft sound




Have a look:
http://www.lassagammi.no

Wednesday, June 15, 2011


A holiday trip to Norwegian side today. My wife asked at what time we will return to this cottage. "Before the sunset" was my answer. (It is not so long trip, but because of reindeers wandering on the roads etc.)

breakfast egg
cloudy side up claims
it's a good moorning


Monday, June 13, 2011

Peaceful countryside

I have spent several days now just traveling all around our Lappland... Now staying in the middle Lappland, near Swedish border. We hired a cottage here.



the wind, either,
not allowed
to rest



Our car in the parking lot is so happy; the sun warming her days and nights. A hay(na)ku:

shining
all over
the unsleepy sun



As you know, the sunrise here was around May 23rd, and next sunset will be around 18th. July. This place is 68 Degs North. (Muonio.)

wondering
where to wander
next

Friday, June 03, 2011


That hasty bird
not at all acquainted
with my ideas?


Not so frequently online; I'm visiting Lappland, returning southwards next week.

Sunday, May 22, 2011


I took this photo when I was bicycling and stopped when I saw the dandelions blossoming.


dandelions swarms -
world's end
cancelled

Thursday, May 19, 2011


This one I sent to Japan-EU English Haiku Contest in Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/haikucontest



桜咲く
also our dandelion
as bright as the sun



(桜咲く - sakura saku - cherry blossom)


Label:
- Japan-EU English Haiku Contest...

Wednesday, May 18, 2011


No way to
tell you anything
more than
this one.


I got The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1975 - 2005. Thank you Amazon! I had already his Collected 1945-1975. This one is from Robert Creeley's Windows (1990).

Next one is my comment for that photo I took when seated near Hyde Park Corner a week ago. I was just listening.

Two pigeons
discussing
€u-politics?



Labels: Robert Creeley, Hyde Park Corner, EU

Tuesday, May 17, 2011




silent forest

a crow caws twice

then silence




This one is a variation, or a follow-up for my earlier themes...

Thursday, May 12, 2011

a humming wind
but I do not remember
anything


Wednesday, May 11, 2011


on my bare head
this empty
wind

Tuesday, May 10, 2011


All that water
flowing in the river -
a drinking fish?

Monday, May 09, 2011

This is a combination from some sources; one idea from one, another idea somewhere else. Whether this a senryu, or not, is a trivial problem, I think.

Superfluous
man looks out the window -
an useless courtyard



Ps. My calendar says it is a Europe-day. Finland ought to support Portugal (as we have supported Iceland's and Greekland's...) My opinion is that we are stupid. Who is laughing? Deutche Bank? Banks in Spain? Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ?-(

Sunday, May 08, 2011


This picture is "borrowed" from Tenzin Tsundue's Kora, stories and poems.

And this is part of the poem from page 11:

I didn't know
if I was there or here.
I didn't know
if I was here or there.

They say the kyang
come here every winter.

They say the kyang
go there every summer.


(Kyang - wild ass found in herds in Changthang (northern plains) of Tibet and Ladakh.)

Saturday, May 07, 2011

Young boy coughing
a cigarette in his mouth -
dusty spring

Sunday, May 01, 2011

sudden hailstorm
expected the asphalt
blooming, too



We got some hail yesterday, and when the hails melted the streets were undusty.

There is a similar text I wrote some years ago, where a gentle spring rain tried to get asphalt streets blossoming. .-)

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Life
was an adventure,
said the snowman.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

solar winds

1.

The solar wind -
ozone current
swimming across the sky


2.

The solar wind -
misty clouds
whining away

Saturday, April 23, 2011

fresh sun
through bare branches -
ozone wind

Friday, April 22, 2011


running wind
takes the river south -
coughing cloud


(This was dated some days ago; first version in Finnish, so this is a translation. Also this is one idea I'm returning now and then.)

Saturday, April 16, 2011


Yesterday we found the very first blossoming coltsfoot,see here! (Click on the photo there.)

This bud here is just going to wake up. Click on it and the spider's thread is seen.

Kigo word: Spring (springhtening)

Monday, April 11, 2011



This photo's date is 8th April.

ices going to leave -
the river
exonerating


dense fog #2


dense fog -
a whole world
unseen


Thursday, April 07, 2011



dense fog -
wondering how our free sky
is carrying on

Sunday, April 03, 2011


dark moon
heavy clouds
drizzling


Tuesday, March 29, 2011


happy together
to fly free -
plutonium particles

Friday, March 25, 2011



Snow shower
on a blackbird -
diminishing shadows




On packed ice
some fresh snow -
Cool March

Tuesday, March 22, 2011


one day
after vernal equinox -
joyful spring

Sunday, March 20, 2011


melting spring
inside my shoes -
vernal equinox

Thursday, March 17, 2011




during last night
one broken icicle -
a roofquake




Finnish variation is found here:
http://juhanitikkanen.blogspot.com/2011/03/piharakennuksen-katolle-syntyi-kevaan.html