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

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