wind battered crows
ascend from a naked tree
leafy silhouettes
Kim M. Russell, 2018
My response to Carpe Diem’s Crossroads #6 A Leafless Tree (Soseki Natsume)
We have a new episode of the special feature ‘’crossroads’, a challenge to create a ‘fusion haiku’ from two given haiku. This week both haiku were written by Soseki Natsume, a Japanese novelist of the Meiji period, who was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales:
the crow has flown away:
swaying in the evening sun,
a leafless tree.
over the wintry
forest, winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow.
© Soseki Natsume
This almost makes me sympathize with the crows! I like those “leafy silhouettes”…and you found the perfect image to pair with your haiku.
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Thank you, Lynn!
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Brava. 😎🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀
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🙂
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crows, leaves, silhouettes: just lovely.
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Wow … aweslme fusion-haiku Kim.
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* awesome * I mean.
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Thank you So much, Kristjaan!
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