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