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)

Windy autumn -
after yellowed leaves
a lively rainfall

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?

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)

Noiseless river -
a red maple leaf
bathing

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.

This male reindeer
watching the approaching
autumnal equinox?

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!

empty lake -
just one lonely bird
swimming

sunny side
of this rotten plank
hoary parched

Autumnal trees -
my camera fished
two fishers

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.)

waiting
the sun rising -
morning train

air cleaning -
white clouds, too,
washed up

Sunday's sunrays
turning here
to visit me?

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

Says
been busy -
a lazy poet

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

Strawberry field -
senile scarecrow
watching itself

Busy August -
too lazy
to write a haiku?


Following is a neat version for this:

August rain -
I forgot to buy
sugar

watering can
rotating the rainbow's
day off

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