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

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