thundery showers -
a squirrel jumps from the pine
into the oak

Some rust was found in our roof. We had to order a painters' team to solve that problem.

Painting took some more days we expected due to some rain...

* * *

Our nights are getting longer down here, in Turku.

My friend told me they'll have a sunset next week. He lives at Utsjoki, in Lappland. (H 24 sunny period begun at May 20th.)

Streetlamps needed longer and longer...

Shiny nights -
street lamps'
rusted memory

hurry up -
the sun is ready
also for you

silent forest -
cuckoo laid its eggs
in mosquitoe's nest?

before the autumn
I'm going to change
my mind

Reidar Särestöniemi 1925 - 1981

Artist Reidar Särestöniemi lived at Kittilä. One of his ateliers in the photo. That area is as a museum now, there is also a good cafe. By the river Ounasjoki also his childhood-home left as a museum. (Near this house.)

in the forest
one man's house -
& some mosquitoes

Some more photos here: http://juhanitikkanen.blogspot.com/2011/06/kekkosen-jalkia-kittilassa.html
and here:

http://juhanitikkanen.blogspot.com/2011/06/reidarin-museosta-jalkivaikutteita.html

and here:

http://mataleena.blogspot.com/2011/06/reidar-sarestoniemi.html

Lassagammi & Ailu

Some 40 years ago I visited many times my friend Ailu. At that times he lived (when stayed in Finland) in Pättikkä, place by the Swedish border in Finland's Lappland.

Ailu (Nils-Aslak Valkeapää) died a couple years ago. He built a new house over there, Skibotn in Norway, just before he died. That building is now sort of artists' residence.

nobody at home -
with the wind
a soft sound

Have a look:
http://www.lassagammi.no

A holiday trip to Norwegian side today. My wife asked at what time we will return to this cottage. "Before the sunset" was my answer. (It is not so long trip, but because of reindeers wandering on the roads etc.)

breakfast egg
cloudy side up claims
it's a good moorning

Peaceful countryside

I have spent several days now just traveling all around our Lappland... Now staying in the middle Lappland, near Swedish border. We hired a cottage here.

the wind, either,
not allowed
to rest

Our car in the parking lot is so happy; the sun warming her days and nights. A hay(na)ku:

shining
all over
the unsleepy sun

As you know, the sunrise here was around May 23rd, and next sunset will be around 18th. July. This place is 68 Degs North. (Muonio.)

wondering
where to wander
next

That hasty bird
not at all acquainted
with my ideas?

Not so frequently online; I'm visiting Lappland, returning southwards next week.

I took this photo when I was bicycling and stopped when I saw the dandelions blossoming.

dandelions swarms -
world's end
cancelled

This one I sent to Japan-EU English Haiku Contest in Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/haikucontest

桜咲く
also our dandelion
as bright as the sun

(桜咲く - sakura saku - cherry blossom)


Label:
- Japan-EU English Haiku Contest...

No way to
tell you anything
more than
this one.

I got The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1975 - 2005. Thank you Amazon! I had already his Collected 1945-1975. This one is from Robert Creeley's Windows (1990).

Next one is my comment for that photo I took when seated near Hyde Park Corner a week ago. I was just listening.

Two pigeons
discussing
€u-politics?

Labels: Robert Creeley, Hyde Park Corner, EU

      silent forest

    a crow caws twice 

      then silence

This one is a variation, or a follow-up for my earlier themes...

a humming wind
but I do not remember
anything

on my bare head
this empty
wind

All that water
flowing in the river -
a drinking fish?

This is a combination from some sources; one idea from one, another idea somewhere else. Whether this a senryu, or not, is a trivial problem, I think.

Superfluous
man looks out the window -
an useless courtyard

Ps. My calendar says it is a Europe-day. Finland ought to support Portugal (as we have supported Iceland's and Greekland's...) My opinion is that we are stupid. Who is laughing? Deutche Bank? Banks in Spain? Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ?-(

This picture is "borrowed" from Tenzin Tsundue's Kora, stories and poems.

And this is part of the poem from page 11:

I didn't know
if I was there or here.
I didn't know
if I was here or there.

They say the kyang
come here every winter.

They say the kyang
go there every summer.

(Kyang - wild ass found in herds in Changthang (northern plains) of Tibet and Ladakh.)

Young boy coughing
a cigarette in his mouth -
dusty spring