| 188 (8 points)
Bruce Ross, USA |
here again
then gone once more
cloudy winter moon
Bruce Ross
Orono, ME, USA
Resonates with Shiki's winter moonlight/shadow
of the stone pagoda/shadow of the pine-tree (after Blyth). The affect of
moonlight (here self-referential) and the New Year's Eve transition from old to
new year (and the ephemeral nature of experience). -BR
| 212 (8 points) Robert
Gibson, USA |
the old house
seems older
winter rain
Robert Gibson
Centralia, WA, USA
simple. objective, feeling. - RG
| 123 (6 points)
Ron Moss, Australia |
cold sunset -
the teenager fingers the hole
in his jeans
ron moss
Tasmania, AU
The small and the mundane a moment of
concentration a Shiki moment ... -RM
| 17 (5 points) Nancy
Stewart Smith, USA |
lingering warmth
still snuggling in last year's
sheets
Nancy Stewart Smith
Athens, Georgia USA
I'll have one six foot bed, constant attention
and admiration, but hold the pain, if you would, please. -NSS
| 89 (5 points) Florence
Vilen, Sweden |
Midnight bells broadcast
from nine or ten cathedrals,
the first champagne
Florence Vilen
Stockholm, SW
Shiki's fourteen or fifteen cockscombs, and
generally his preference for numbers; the flavour of religious celebration
combined with mundane life.
| 160 (4 points) John
Bird, Australia |
learning to die -
jacaranda blooms surround
grandmother's chair
John Bird
Ocean Shores, AU
An old lady sitting in hospital grounds,
surrounded by fallen jacaranda blooms -- learning from nature how to accept life
cycles. -JB
|
62 (3 points) Marjorie
Buettner, USA |
New Year's day...
between half sleep and dream
the warmth of your lips
Marjorie Buettner
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Shiki taught us the importance of those
sketches of life which will always concern the immediacy of now; the future is
unknown, the past is irredeemable, but the magic of now--especially at such a
significant almost mythical time as the New Year--makes us feel time's virginal
quality when everything is as if for the first time. -MB
winter solstice --
tonight my bloodhound's voice
belongs in a graveyard
an'ya
Crooked River Ranch
Oregon, USA
This haiku is based on the idea that Shiki
wrote quite often of the sound of barking/howling dogs, and on a combination of
these two haiku.
the sick room --
of all these flies around me
not one is landing
an'ya
Crooked River Ranch, Oregon, USA
Shiki often wrote about the flies in his sick
room, so this haiku.
|
37 Moussia Fantoli, Italy |
Small room for the blind
eight steps from door to window
frozen pane stops him
Moussia Fantoli
Rome, IT
This haiku echoes Shiki's mood in: "Maki
wo waru/ imoto hitori/ fuyugomori" -MF
haiku notebook
this spring's seed order
on the last page
DeVar Dahl
Magrath, Alberta, CA
I am sure that if Shiki's health had permitted,
he would have loved to tend a garden. -DD
|
70 Jasminka Nadaskic
Diordievic, Yugoslavia |
first sounds of rain?
the sickle moon rises into
starless infinity
Jasminka Nadaskic Diordievic
Smederevo, YU
Such a beautiful deep summer night, who can
sleep, it was time for enjoy, suddenly first raindrops ... I can't see, only
hear this beauty. -JND
|
91 Florence Vilen, Sweden |
Trailing along
the traces of fireworks
the old year, too
Florence Vilen
Stockholm, SW
Shiki's fireworks haiku discussed in the WHC -FV
|
155
paul t conneally, England |
Bosworth Field
white roses scattered
in the long grass
paul t conneally
Loughborough, UK
After Basho, Shiki too found the souls of dead
warriors in the battlefield's grasses - here in Leicestershire, I find the same
on Bosworth Field - the place where the last King of England to be slain in
battle died - Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain (the colours of the rainbow)
and the white rose - the symbol of Yorkshire - my county of birth - "a
horse! a horse! a kingdom for ...." - war is always gruesome and it does us
well to remember this.
