 |
| Photo © Jen R. |
sudden blizzard
freezing the last persimmons
a crash of thunder
shakes the frozen windows -
cold sounds of winter
freezing the last persimmons
a crash of thunder
shakes the frozen windows -
cold sounds of winter
(c) G.s.k. '14
Jen's (from Blog it or Lose It!) Ghost Writing post begins like this:
"One evening – when the muses were being particularly stingy with their inspiration – I started to look for new voices in haiku. I stumbled across a great site full haiku and tanka written by Japanese women – and fell in love with the poetry of Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1895).looking out over the bayI see clouds of cold rainsummoning winterand hear the wind in the pineswhisper its name
© Otagaki Rengetsu
This is a lovely post and a great introduction to a new haiku poet ... a woman too! It's an interesting post and I would invite you to drop by and have a look! Here is the poem used as the point of inspiration for today's haiku:
Upon
frost-withered arrowroot
pelting
vying hailstones—
the cold within the sound.
(c) Rengetsu
Oh no! You didn't lose the persimmons did you? Rats. :(
ReplyDeleteLovely -- remembering that snow thunder -- always really startling in winter, isn't it?
Great response Georgia -- and I'm so glad you liked Rengetsu. What a remarkable woman -- with an incredible voice!
I'm really grateful to you for this introduction! I've bookmarked both links so I can go back and read not only her great work but other haiku by women! Glad you enjoyed my attempt to write in her style ... and I really am always surprised to hear snow thunder! The persimmons though are not lost as this was an "other" blizzard ... perhaps an archetype of a blizzard ;-)
DeleteNicely done.
ReplyDeleteThanks! :-)
DeleteThat cold can be loud...
ReplyDeleteIt sure can ... one does't expect thunder when it snows ... already a blizzard is pretty noisy with all that wind though. Glad you dropped by and Happy Thanksgiving!
DeleteCold and Christmasy haiku !
ReplyDelete