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(an unpublished Tikkis 2016)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

November 2015 Free format short poem

warmly lighted
evening window -
cooling street

November 2015 Free format short poem was EVENING WINDOW


(My text built by word cool.)

November Kigo

snowbird
heading sunwards -
melting wings

Bird? Snowbird is a human, traveling from freezing North Southwards.
My mother-in-law was a snowbird, she flew every autumn to Portugal, where she hired an apartemento. When sun again up and warmer in Finland she returned home...

Also everyone will remember Icarus.

Tikkis October 2015 Kukai entry

scarecrow's
thin bones freezing -
harvest moon

October 2015 Kukai, wherein Kigo subject was SCARECROW

September 2015 kigo entry WINDSTORM

rough sea
windstorm tearing up
the waves

I also had one variation:

Sleepy wind ...
autumn windstorm
cancelled

wild geese
heading southwards
a starlit night

This was "hiding" inside my notebook. That was a sketch for Shikimontly Starlit night---

Text reminds me about something, perhaps there is a similar haiku somewhere?

That's why I did not sent that into Shikimontly...

Path

got lost?
the path not returning
from an old forest

Shikimonthly August 2015 text, Free Format Theme was PATH

bright
starlit night -
burglar's nightmare

This was my entry for The Shiki Monthly Kukai August 2015,
Kigo subject was STARLIT NIGHT

between
crows caws
a ceased wind

Julu 2015 Shiki Free Format Theme was QUIET

sleepless night -
our air conditioner
sweating too

My Shiki July 2015 Kukai text,
Kigo subject was HOT/TROPICAL NIGHT

midnight -
the sun, neither mosquitoes,
don't sleep

an old boat
resting a while -
wind from the river

drunken sailor
from his roaring forties
returning home

May 2015 Free Format subject was RETURNING HOME

drowning lawn
an earthworm
showering

May 2015 Kukai, Kigo subject was RAINY SEASON

sleepy tree,
sheltering shadow -
forest getting old

late afternoon --
a young leaf
turning upright

Shiki Free Format Theme April 2015 was SLEEPING LATE

Threeliners during the Easter

1.


silent Easter night
soughing winds
echoing

2.


like furious storms
came here to confuse
gawky humans

3.

winds dying down -
I can hear my breathing
in, and out

a long spring ...
there are lot of days
after a long winter

This was also a message for Gillena in her Facebook today!

night
shortened four minutes -
longer afternoon nap?

dusty spring -
the sun eagerly
rising earlier up

after a cool night
a single mallard
crossing the river

February kigo

waiting her mother
the child kissing icy flower
on the window

February 2015 Kigo Theme was WINTER FLOWERS

an alone snowdrop
due to an Easterly wind
bending down

After a snowstorm
New Year's first visitor
an old sun

(My January 2015 Kigo entry)

Kigo subject was NEW YEAR VISITORS

friendly streets
some angry cars on
wintry afternoon

a snowbird
crossed the path ...
alone also

My December 2014 Kigo text

behind
the closed factory gate
a ceased snowstorm

Kigo subject was WINDBREAK


In Finland we have yearly some closed factories...

I myself, as a child, lived inside a small factory and when a Sunday I do remember the silence... Great.

frozen river -
where the fish under the ice
swimming to?

Cool !
First snow
landed safely!

first snow -
someone already
walked on it

November evening -
sky over eastern forests
diminishing

Moonless day -
eagerly waiting
the sunset

October 2014 Kukai,

Kigo subject was MOONLESS NIGHT

Indian summer -
a cricket found
its lost voice

September 2014 Shiki Kukai
Kigo subject was CRICKET

misty morning -
sky's lights spread
all over nowhere

crow's nest -
youngsters arguing
where to fly

Shiki Kukai, August 2014, Topic: goodbye/parting words

Setting sun -
sunflower's shadow
still warm

Shiki Kukai, August 2014; Kigo: sunflower

a clap of thunder -
behind a closed window
an angry world

a thirsty cloud
passed the torrent -
victory!

The whole forest
out of tune -
easterly winds

early morning -
some of the trees
slept at all, either?

all these
fresh maple leaves
ready for eternity?

An early sun

I had a vision how to write An Early Sun as a threeliner:

an early sun
frying up our old moon
ripe

Another version, an too early sun peeped straight into my sleepy eyes. Warm enough. A blackbird is busy to feed its babies:

An early sun
watching the blackbird
eating an early worm

Cool morning -
as nothing special
the sun warming up

Labels: Sunspot, Sun's magnetism


(They say they are dampening down?)

easterly winds -
with an uninvited
hostile mosquito

If someone claims this as a political threeliner,
or a comment for Crimean affairs, etc,

so, what to say?


:-)

did you slept enough
during this long winter,
o early sun?

snowman's grave -
some of the memories
rinsed out

This one is a formulation for an old idea:

not yet ready,
     the snowman -
child's afternoon nap

There is not any more snows here, though we just got some sleet,
or perhaps not any snowmen seen around here.


An explanation for this problem was this text variation:

running spring waters
rinsing out -
snowman's grave

All this is from a piece of paper
that was hiding inside Louis Zukofsky's "A", page 376:

"An inequality /// wind flower"

(Copyrighted By Louis Z.)

Tasting that text and I should put the word "flower" as "flowers"

?-)


Ps. I understood that Mr. Zukofsky's son does not like to see his father's text borrowed nowhere, but here is just so few words that perhaps no problem?-)

Just a few word
among all the world's poetry
are inequality?

mayday

Snow is frozen rain.
It is soft and white
and often settles on the ground.


(From Oxford Wordpower Dictionary, Oxford UP 1993.)

sleet celebrating
the global warming -
1st of May

Here is definition for snow
from Webster's Third New International Dictionary, page 2158:

I prefer that one from small Oxford more poetical one ?-)

ceased wind -
one leaf not yet reached
nirvana

My January 2014 Shiki Free Format Entry. Got one point!

freezing cold --
though the global war
getting warmer and warmer

Here I'm tasting the words 'war' - 'warm'...

a farmer
snuggled down -
all the bugs
deeply silent


This one is because I had to write something around the word 'snuggle'.

Anyway, just a few war-news, Afghanistan, Bangkok, Ukraina.

And in Finland somewhat just cold.

And due to Chinese money world economic is going forward.

   my nose dripping 
   onto an icy path - 
   deep-frozen drops

an one minute
longer daylight -
rising finances?

Yesterday our sun was up from 9:25 to 15:17.
Today 9:25 - 15:18. Wau!

Forest path
narrowed here, vanished...
I'm nowhere now?

a calm river -
on the rapids
a small wave
capsized

sunny Autumn morning -
a thermometer's
chilly night

Draft version for that was as:

Silently the Autumn
watching the thermometer -
approaching winter

so hurry -
a red mapple leaf
not intended to die,
yet?

how to describe a terrorist

when a small group 
   just sipping some tea 
and disturbing 
   the economics running freely 

how
 to decsribe 
    a terrorist?

false autumn -
migrating birds
flying northwards

Last week's Northeasterly cold winds ceased. Someone perhaps called that wind as Murmansk-wind ?-)
Today it is quite warm, westerly winds, and sunny.

at my door
not a single knock -
a yellow leaf run away

stop -
maple leaves
waiting forthcoming winter

a lone crow
watching the autumn rain -
both are gray

September

a blast 
      of wind 


turning 

one dead     a yellow leaf  


           
     side        
wrong      up

leaves falling -
an old-fashioned automobile
coughing already

rainy road -
why city lights
don't get wet

leaving -
the bright sun anyway
thriving

A peacemaker

I got a pacemaker a year ago,and I was warned f.e. airport's security check-gates. I have a warning card for those.

When visited Hong Kong and Shanghai I walked through the security checkpoints, At Helsinki the officer said "no problem, it does not hurt your pacer, just walk through..." I did and I felt simply nothing. The gate did not alert, either.

Then when leaving Hong Kong the officer was afraid: "You got a pacer?!" Yes, I said. Looked at the poor officer, and remembered what I was told at Helsinki, and walked through the gate. Just silence. My pacer was calm and steady.

But when I used my pacer-card at Sanghai airport the officer was alarmed. "Take gate nr 5!" I turned back and tried to see where is gate #5. Luckily a polite officer joined me and we went to the gate # 5. There was just two kind female security officers, they checked me with their sensitive fingers... Shortly I had to join my group. And when flying over the Siberian back to Finland I still had a nice memory. O Shanghai's security check! I'll return, some day!

This short text I wrote when left Turku when heading towards Lapland:

security check -
 my pacemaker echoing
   jump            
                jump 
        jump

September
like August -
the crow's caw...

someone,
somewhere -
but when?

gravelled river -
lazy waters flowing
towards the ocean

a long evening -
all the mosquitoes
not yet sleepy, yet?

#2

cross the river 
Nato-minded mosquitoes 
attacking my peace

...

The Deatnu (deatnu, sami = The Big River) having quite a little water this summer. And also not so many salmon either. Deatnu's waters are also quite warm and they say that salmon does not swim towards warm waters...

slowly running -
just a little watering
& air flows

I visited Lapland and had a nice holiday. Two nights I slept in a tent. Woke up when some crows and magpies had something to tell (me?).

after good-morning-crows
a magpies begins to argue -
I had my morning piss...

a silent night -
a grass not sleeping
either

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