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