high sound
from the freezed sky -
the wolf moon

Solstice lantern

This ice-lantern built by my wife. There is a flickering candle enlightening this dim world. Today (Dec. 21st 2012 at 1.12 pm Finnish winter time) is the winter solstice.

Today also we'll get a new Mayan calendar!

ice lantern -
some more light
for winter solstice

Globe warming

snowy morning -
two candles
warming themselves

Memory of Robert Bauer

Got a message that Robert Bauer, Shiki kukai secretary and web-master, passed away this morning (2nd Dec. 2012.)



Ps, added 30th Dec 2012:

My text for Robert from Shiki Kukai December free format section was:

left the quay -
the wake not yet
smoothed out

Global warming?

frightened river -
snow flowing
coldwards

Second snow

We got our second snow! First one melted already away. Trying to follow the Doda Meeting and believe in Our Earth's Saving from all the bad...

Doha meeting -
green leaves
saving our earth?

belated winter -
on an old tree
a free zone

As a bonus photo, our squirrel doesn't care what the winter is, or is not going to do.
This very same squirrel acting also in mataleena's blog:


mataleena.blogspot.com

though
refused by farmers
continuous rain

Textual wonders

dark energy -
all the windows
closed

Dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to accelerate the expansion of the universe.

Gaza strip -
dark energy broke the light
through the windows

Windows is something Microsoft owns. Quite often I am using Linux.

not so quietly
world peace
buried

This format is as a hay(na)ku. Format is not so often used?

pulchritudinous -
a long tailed magpie
flirting with a crow

(For this I got an idea from Joseph Massey's Facebook.)

November

   Leafless trees waiting for the winter. 

     The winter is coming,

                 is coming?

or is it just cancelled 

a leafless wind
under a barren
dark cloud

Good morning!
A happy tit flying -
a good morning

Why this flying bird? At first L2 was:
"a happy pigeon flying free"...

But I did not found any flying pigeon from my albums, just a small tit...

Let's it fly then!

:-)

Here is the same bird, just before it voted:

sleepy trees
going to hibernate?
carefree mallards

First snow # 2

slippery -
first snow
got no tyres?

First snow buried
yesterday's leaf
forever?

a black cat
prowling
an unwhining mouse

sparrows
not so eagerly waiting
for winter

gathering
diminishing day-rays
a safe autumn

holding up
some of its colors -
streety trees' leaves

falling leaves
ready to go!
- assaulting autumn

Leafy path -
a flowy river hiding
behind the trees

short cut
through a fallow field -
ripening windberries

Green leaves

municipal elections -
you're voting the greens,
o maple leaf?

Municipal elections here in Finland Oct. 28th 2012. I have not yet decided who will have my vote... This green maple leaf had a slight idea? Also quite many completely red leaves around here. What's yellow leaves for?


Oracle says:

take a red pen
and vote
for greens

autumn queue
a young maple
lined up

Upwards
a wet path -
September days

Resting a while -
autumnal equinox
passing

Maple leaf's
final solution -
this is it!

relying upon
summer's continuity -
young maple leaves

Sorry, I think I've been busy.

          Watching 
            how the autumn 

                proceeding

 

So many clouds -
September's
plan of action

lazy sun,
where you've been -
southerly winds

Sunny morning -
a sparrow trying to keep
its mouth shut

Here is one more version from my sketchbook:

Sunday morning -
i tired sparrow going
to say: "chirp?"

Spam-flyers

August vacation -
empty mailbox got wet
in late summer rain

I took off my word verification. Let's see what's happening.

Do you remember old scandal where email-passwords "unveiled". One lonely lady heaved: "Oh no, now everyone sees that I never receice a single email..."

This next one is for Bill, I borrow it here from Bill's comment-box because I like the idea:

lonely mailbox -
tinned spam
got an off day?

see:
http://mit.edu/jync/www/spam/archive.html


More stuff around this idea:

a spy-master
short of unused stamps -
accountable profit center

rainy night ...
some of the old puddles
joined together

Minima St. by Joseph Massey

Isn't that cricket
getting
tired?

This is from Joseph Massey's chapbook Minima St. (2002).

It is now available from this address:


http://www.culturalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/JosephMasseyMinimaSt.pdf


Last poem is:

Moon
set

no
words.

Making a problem

calm night
week after my birthday
a calm morning

At 6 o'clock I walked towards Turku Central Railway station. A sunny morning. Build up a threeliner in my mind when walked:

a calm night -
now a calm morning
a week after my birthday

Rised R3 as R2, and I did not accept R3 just something like "August".

In my mind the word "calm" sounds somewhat 'cold'. Is it? Neither cool?

Anyway weather was calm. But what about a short night?

A short, calm night just a week after my birthday & now also a calm morning.

:-) If "short" then perhaps calm only once.

R3 got an "a" in front of it. And the word "short" did not succeed? Did i got a problem?

When seated in the train and a got a nice cup of coffee I wrote once more my final solution:

short night
not a week after my birthday
a calm morning

Whose problem? Approaching Helsinki, the train making 160 km/hour. We'll get a nice summer day anyway.

太田川

thickness -
the river flows
towards the Waste Seas

Label: Otagawa, Hiroshima

freshborn barrier -
after 67 years
it will be useless?

(I got my 67th anniversary today...)

borders, neighbors

red border -
I can hear our
neighbors

P.s.
At first the text was:

red border -
I can hear our neighbors
having some fun

Slightly different story:

Conquered branches
hiding the sunshine -
August's colony

Barber's vacation

as an empty beach -
well lighted street
for alone cars

My barbershop in the right, and first door on the left is the nearest pub. Barber's vacation just now.

Low pressure -
half cup of black coffee
cooling down

Shiki July 2012

My threeliners in July 2012 Shiki Kukai, "talk"

a thicket ...
talkative
mosquitoes

Free Format, "blue"

blue drops
on unfinished last will —
emptied ink bottle

Talkative got two points; thanks for it. Blue drops one point, which is nice, too.

clouds drifting ...
for the sun
enough room

The only vanished thing
among the morning grass
is the dew

o snails
tough night
was it?

trying to catch
a single sunray -
approaching rain

thrice newborn life

1.

newborn frog
jumps towards blue sky -
the reeds

2.

going to fly
beyond the horizon -
newborn crow

3.

a young pigeon
did a beautiful white spot -
just like his father

# 3 also, if you prefer:
just like her father

Another sketch for this photo:

More fingers
growing up?
A young pine.

Middle arrow
shooting a sunny day -
crow's nesting tree

Rainy day -
did you succeed with
your family planning?

silent forest -
in my both ears
a mosquito

not a need
for a single koww -
sated crow

behind the lamp post
the midnight sun
dazzling

I'm again visiting my friends at Utsjoki. Not so often online. Returning south perhaps next weekend.

Beyond the hill
a silent
summer light

anyone caught
a nice nest builder
yet?

an empty nest -
the youngster-crow already
learnt to sing

June rain -
a grown-up earthworm
crossing the street

old man's morning piss —
don't panic
o magpie!

(See The Shiki Kukai May 2012 Free Format section.)

Look here! Summer
going to
visit

dandelion -
with evening breeze
it's getting cooler?

worn-out highway
in the middle of the day
salty holes

a returnee -
young magpie occupied
the heftiest branch

After a long winter we got a thundestorm! It washed away some wintry street dust...

Fifth night
after the Super Moon -
a thunderstorm!

wondering
whether to build a nest -
laughing magpie

a young crow
building it's first nest -
a virgin maple

those white clouds
going to build a nest,
too?

Early sun -
after chilly night
a happy crow

Arktikum

I visited Rovaniemi at 18th April; had some meetings over there. We got a snowy day, not so cold but the snow did not melt away. This one located outside Arktikum-house is something to do with the Arktikum-Center's art, I suppose.

         wintry vessel 
         radaring 
         where is the spring

warm spring day -
asking lawn mover
how it's managing

many good trees
for nesting -
a gull passing

where to swim -
a warm spring
breeze

more than ten thousand
wintry snowflakes-
now all gone!

a flowing river -
couple of ducks
going to nest

I visited Kuopio. My friend was buried there. Finnish text is something like this:

path to the grave -
a returning
sun?

Found it?
The secret
spring

Thawingism

Thawism?

Thawing means by Webster to go from a frozen to a liquid state

as:

An economy crisis thawed
into bankers' pockets?
St Patrick's Day.

It was yesterday 17th March. Is it enough for a kigo?

After a classic winter - with some snow and some freezing period the nature is thawing. Snows running away from us.

running
from the streets -
March thaw

The trains don't whistle anymore. I visited yesterday Helsinki for a short meeting. Got a pencil and wrote these, this one was #1:

         smell 
         from an old snow - 
         bird whistling

I did not like the word "smell". Scent? Stink? What aroma snow's got? Then #2:

           old snow 
           ebbing away - 
           a black bird!

The train was late. I checked the time and got slightly nervous. When arrived at Helsinki main railway station our train was 7 minutes late! When returning later back to Turku I wrote #3:

     this year
     melting snows seemingly 
     missing the train

When I was back at home again I was not at all worried how to make yourself clear in haiku-writing.

The black bird? - Perhaps just a rapid shadow?

swimming
in a puddle -
melting snow

Confused

             O,   sunny March


       Where did you come?
       white snow left 

   here, 
             
                 and over there