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