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(an unpublished Tikkis 2016)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