Freewheeling Solstice

solstice cycle

freewheeling through summer days

then long nights draw in

 

© Kim M. Russell, 2016

landshoff_bicyclers_august-1946-web

I have a large framed print of this photograph on my study wall: Hermann Landshoff. ‘The Bicyclers’ Published in ‘Junior Bazaar’ August 1946 Image found on  artblart.com

My response to Carpe Diem #1054 Summer Solstice

Today our prompt is Summer Solstice and these are the haiku Jane Reichhold used as an example in her saijiki “A Dictionary of Haiku”, in which she introduced modern kigo (or seasonwords):

midsummer madness
tempered by the knowledge
each day is shorter

solstice splits
between the peach halves
a red stone sun

summer solstice
the gypsy wagon bright
with music

© Jane Reichhold

7 thoughts on “Freewheeling Solstice”

    1. I have had my framed print of that photo for about 25 years now. My husband wouldn’t let me hang it in our house when we moved so I kept it tucked away until I had the conservatory turned into a study about eight years ago and it’s been on the wall since. I have to admit it is rather large! I have another black and white print by Norman Parkinson of a woman (I think it’s his wife) sitting on a bench at a railway station. It hangs opposite the other one.

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