on a rain-soaked stump sapid feast for slugs and snails bright fruiting fungi Kim M. Russell, 4th November 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1537 Decay This month at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, we are challenged with classical and non-classical kigo (seasonwords) for autumn, haiku about autumn by classical haiku poets like Basho and Chiyo-Ni […]
Day: November 4, 2018
A Childish Heart
at the gate of a deserted house, a cicada is crying in the rays of the evening sun insect wings rustle in dust […]
Losing Your Head
You lost your tiny mind and the hot blood of night was a painful cure. The dark satellite of a world that’s dead to you offers only a corpse and the cold ashes of a burnt out heart. Salome’s breakfast platter offers a selection of fresh fruit, eggs over easy and a prophet’s severed head. […]
Love Eternally Day 20
even though you’re gone I can see your face clearly through the same blue eyes Kim M. Russell, 4th November 2018 My response to Carpe Diem’s Autumn Retreat 2018 Love Eternally It’s time for Carpe Diem’s Autumn Retreat, a period of 30 days to write haiku or tanka every day on a specific theme: ‘love […]
November Geese
skimming the sunset a skein of pink-footed geese winter’s clarion Kim M. Russell, 4th November 2018 My response to Carpe Diem’s Leafless Tree #3 Morikawa Kyoroku, one of Basho’s disciples In another episode of the special feature ‘Leafless Tree’, in which we are introduced to one of Basho’s ten most important disciples, Morikawa Kyoroku (1656-1715). […]
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