an one minute
longer daylight -
rising finances?

Yesterday our sun was up from 9:25 to 15:17.
Today 9:25 - 15:18. Wau!

Forest path
narrowed here, vanished...
I'm nowhere now?

a calm river -
on the rapids
a small wave
capsized

sunny Autumn morning -
a thermometer's
chilly night

Draft version for that was as:

Silently the Autumn
watching the thermometer -
approaching winter

so hurry -
a red mapple leaf
not intended to die,
yet?

how to describe a terrorist

when a small group 
   just sipping some tea 
and disturbing 
   the economics running freely 

how
 to decsribe 
    a terrorist?

false autumn -
migrating birds
flying northwards

Last week's Northeasterly cold winds ceased. Someone perhaps called that wind as Murmansk-wind ?-)
Today it is quite warm, westerly winds, and sunny.

at my door
not a single knock -
a yellow leaf run away

stop -
maple leaves
waiting forthcoming winter

a lone crow
watching the autumn rain -
both are gray

September

a blast 
      of wind 


turning 

one dead     a yellow leaf  


           
     side        
wrong      up

leaves falling -
an old-fashioned automobile
coughing already

rainy road -
why city lights
don't get wet

leaving -
the bright sun anyway
thriving

A peacemaker

I got a pacemaker a year ago,and I was warned f.e. airport's security check-gates. I have a warning card for those.

When visited Hong Kong and Shanghai I walked through the security checkpoints, At Helsinki the officer said "no problem, it does not hurt your pacer, just walk through..." I did and I felt simply nothing. The gate did not alert, either.

Then when leaving Hong Kong the officer was afraid: "You got a pacer?!" Yes, I said. Looked at the poor officer, and remembered what I was told at Helsinki, and walked through the gate. Just silence. My pacer was calm and steady.

But when I used my pacer-card at Sanghai airport the officer was alarmed. "Take gate nr 5!" I turned back and tried to see where is gate #5. Luckily a polite officer joined me and we went to the gate # 5. There was just two kind female security officers, they checked me with their sensitive fingers... Shortly I had to join my group. And when flying over the Siberian back to Finland I still had a nice memory. O Shanghai's security check! I'll return, some day!

This short text I wrote when left Turku when heading towards Lapland:

security check -
 my pacemaker echoing
   jump            
                jump 
        jump

September
like August -
the crow's caw...

someone,
somewhere -
but when?

gravelled river -
lazy waters flowing
towards the ocean

a long evening -
all the mosquitoes
not yet sleepy, yet?

#2

cross the river 
Nato-minded mosquitoes 
attacking my peace

...

The Deatnu (deatnu, sami = The Big River) having quite a little water this summer. And also not so many salmon either. Deatnu's waters are also quite warm and they say that salmon does not swim towards warm waters...

slowly running -
just a little watering
& air flows

I visited Lapland and had a nice holiday. Two nights I slept in a tent. Woke up when some crows and magpies had something to tell (me?).

after good-morning-crows
a magpies begins to argue -
I had my morning piss...

a silent night -
a grass not sleeping
either

an old bear
living somewhere
or here?

speechless sun
does not communicate
with a new moon?

new moon,
shame on you -
cloudless sky

evening breeze...
vegetables swaying,
not swaying

vibrating airflow
of a breathing machine -
a vegetable

A crow, and a magpie.
Which one
leaving me first?

At home again!

I spent 17 days at hospital; a snake bit me... (My fault, of course.)

A sunny day -
a white man disturbed
snake's naps...

barefoot

to feel deeper
his mother's land the beggar
took off his shoes

quiet morning -
a possible thunder
snored through the night?

withered - theme, final solution:


dusty wind
trying to bend
a single straw



:-(


one more:


dusty fields -
a whirlwind bending
the longest staws down

How to desribe dusty

Kukai Free Format subject was DUST. May 2013.

My personal battlefield:

1.

dusty fields
spring rain flushing
withered [grass]straws

[all the single straws]

single? not married?-)

2.

[spring]rain flushing
all the wither
dusty straws

or

3.

dusty wind
trying to bend
withered straws

Tasted some days, wrote next one:

4.

thin clouds
passing
the new moon -

or/and:

5.

new moon hiding
behind
so thin clouds

?

[an unseen sky]


Then back to business:

6.

a dustied pencil
on an unused paper
email time-outed

and / or:

7.

a pencil made dustied
for a while -
bright rain,
sunny period.

Both meanings for "period"?


Meanwhile had to wash my car:

8.

dusty car
eagerly longing for
to a dusty highway

Somewhat tired? Next from my sketchbook:

9.

unwritten pages
on my sketchbook
gathering dust

[nesting dust} ?


Then additional pages lost somehere buried under the heaps of dust, I think.

a whirlwind
bending dusty corns
down, up, down


- earned no points.

bonus:

summer
rain shower
walking away
with dust

Dandelions

rounded water
moisturizing
the fresh air

At first for this photo the text was:

taking a shower -
wet flowers
seeding

city lights -
between the sky and me
a rainy window

darkened night -
how to look at
all the nightmares?

Good evening
lighted
to drive carefully

Some city lights
behind the trees -
what's happening?

A sleeping tiger
does not snore,
snoring, not snoring?

Flying tiger

I visited Hong Kong and China (Sanghai). Just quite "rapid" journey for my old bones, but still alive!

By the way, the word rapid & rabbit. Which one was the tourist?

Morning flight
of a gray dragon
over the tiger's housing

Hardware

I have looked after some nails, 15 mm and 20 mm. From the city-hardware store there were none 15 mm, and 20 mm were in small plastic bags, 120 nails in each. (Some one counted them all?)

someone
took care of the nails -
a safe plastic bag

I had to wake my old car and head to the country side. Therefrom a big ironmonger / hardware store I found small enough nails. They waited me on the main corridor, "street" # 9 to the left, there they were! Two 0,5 kg bag, = one kilogram together!

individual nails
all of them in peace
together

My old car waited me, there was a free parking anyway. Drove home. I wonder whether my car found anything?

rusty car
dusty road
the driver, an old man

First of May -
a pair of white clouds
divorced

I wrote this for Bill's Spring-sky.html as a comment.


This was one of some 'developments', as follows:

rapid April
some of the river's ice
[already] divorced

Another sketch was like this:

[rapidly divorced)

dark clouds
whitening -
divorced

First version was from 2nd April 2013:

whole winter
in vain?
April snows melting

Later I rewrote it as this (7th April 2013):

not in vain
whole winter -
new April snows!

(As we got some snowshowers again...)

solicitously
joined together ...
sand bank

does the river
remember
how long this winter was

Studying a sijo

guided missiles 

     over the Eastern Sea - 

morning sun

This is a copy from the threeliner i wrote today in my Finnish blog.


This is not a sijo, not at all, "Sijo" is a purely Korean poetic form written (in Korean) in three lines of 14 to 16 syllables, distributed according the following breath groups, for a total of 44-46 syllables.

Continuous
March winds disturbed
by sun rays?

White Noise

White noise is a random signal with a flat (constant) power spectral density.

White noise - signal contains equal power within any frequency band with a fixed width.

(From Wiki.)

1.


That white noise -
snowstorms
with us

This was written some days ago. Trying to "age" it, as a good old wine. Then we got sunny March days.

2.

That white silence -
the snowstorms
left us.

This busy world
around us -
Sunny Friday

be careful up there -
freezing winds
forecast

an asylum for a snowflake

1.

alone ...
a freezing snowflake
lost her home

2.

wintry wind -
loose snowflakes
seeking a warm home

Ejecting a threeliner

Sometimes a writer got an idea from it's quite impossible to get rid of ... Here is one my struggling dated March 2013:

1.

a vomiting cloud
emerging snowflakes
all over

Vomiting; some matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth to throw up. - ?

Checked some synonyms for throw: bowl, cast, fling, heave, hurl, pitch, sling, toss


a tossed cloud?

the clouds heaving
snowflakes
...

next sketch, # 2:

fresh snowflakes
emerging all over -
a vomiting cloud

Not so nice, this whole idea; vomiting cloud?

# 3:

emerged
new whirling snowflakes
all over wintry fields

Rewrote that as

# 4:

new whirling
snowflakes emerging
all over [wintry] fields

- Because "wintry" not needed, there is already at least one snowflake = a winter kigo.
Then I tasted the word "hurl" and tried it:

# 5:

from hurling clouds
snowflakes emerging
all over

next one is the latest on this battlefield:

# 6:


clouds hurling
emerging snowflakes
all over

I think a good poems must include at least one verb. And others say haiku must include a kigo word. Here it is snow(flake) = winter.

So, this seems to be a haiku?




:-)

rapidly melting snow
kissing earthworm's
soiled face

Reading Frank O'Hara

Snowflake! You are so many!

Ps.

Frank O'Hara said:

Leaf! You are so big!

snow crossing
the blue view
with a steel bridge

carefully
some new snow landing
on the river ice

the wind
cleaned the ice
my unchattered thoughts

calm sky ...
an energy saving crow
making an overflight

calm river -
she knows
the spring arrives,
some day

-- This is one of my fourliners --.)

And I think, due to certain reasons, the river is a female?

18th Jan 2013

occupied
our backyard
these snowflake-youngsters

Snowflakes

1.


all these hungry
baby-snowflakes got
white teeth

2.

don't argue
the snowflakes' role is to act
as for white power

3.

all these pure-white snowflakes
building up a final friendship



:-)

died or alive?
snow buddha
smiling warmly

cemetery

shortened days
diminishing too soon -
the cemetery

first snow
on the cemetery -
peace on the peace

Happy New Year 2013!

curious
yellow cow
watching the bicycle