hooded darkness
spilling on the first light snow
shadow of the moon
hooded darkness
not even a star shaped hole
in the bowl of the sky
spilling on the first light snow
a poet’s fresh ink
inspiration
shadow of the moon
flying past its silver face
a skein of snow geese
Kim M. Russell, 17th January 2019
My response to Carpe Diem #1587 Buson’s Memorial Day (busonki)
January 17th is Buson’s Memorial Day (or busonki), which is also a classical kigo for winter, so today our challenge is to create a fusion-ku from two haiku by Buson and then create a troiku with the fusion-ku:
someone goes by wearing a hood
in his own darkness
not seeing the harvest moon
the first light snow
then when the bowl of the sky is empty
the moon hanging in the bamboos
Yosa Buson
Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #4: Kim Russell’s latest #troiku for Carpe Diem!
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Cheers for the reblog, Frank!
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😇
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I just love the phrase’hooded darkness’ and then later in the troiku, the dark ink of the poet’s inspiration
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Thanks Laura.
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Reblogged this on Adas Poetry Alcove.
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Thank you so much for the reblog!
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I like “spilling on the first light snow” and the way you expanded on it in your troiku.
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Thank you, Ken.
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Ah! More Fabulousness! (@–>—)
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Thank you, Dorna! 😊
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