Solitude (Kodoku) - December 9, 2014

alone

a single grey feather
on the cobblestones

inside the crowd
walking huddled in his coat
a lonely man

lost in the drifts
the first snowflake of winter -
no longer alone

Christmas tree lights
accompany empty dawns -
lonely memories

© G.s.k. '14

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By chance I was looking for haiku about snow ... I wanted to see if Basho himself had written on the subject so I Googled: Basho Snow Haiku  of course.  I read many fine haiku by Basho, though none about snow ... however this one stuck in my mind, so I went to look for it this morning after I was writing my haiku for "solitude":

Won't you come and see

loneliness? Just one leaf

from the kiri tree.

© Basho (Matsuo Munefusa) (1644-94)

To inspire us, our host Chèvrefeuille included four poems by Jane Reichhold, we are looking to her for our modern kigo in our December posts:

the shape of wind

writing in dunes

loneliness

alone in the house

the flavor of peppermint

cold on the tongue

a journey begins

the way familiar

to the door

frozen to his feet

the length of a shadow

wanting to sleep

© Jane Reichhold

Here are twp of our host's example:

the vastness of the heath

just the sound of fresh fallen snow

a cold moonlit night

a cold moonlit night

just the sound of fresh fallen snow -

wandering over the moors

© Chèvrefeuille

Credits: Solitude Tree

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