Valerian - November 7, 2014

Credits: Japanese Yellow Valerian

yellow fields
harvesting Valerian
for long winter naps

(c) G.s.k. '14

Hagi, Bush Clover - Haiku - November 3, 2014

Chèvrefeuille writes:

 "our first prompt of our new month of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, November. The first seven (regular) prompts will be the seven sacred autumn flowers and today the first of those sacred autumn flowers is Bush Clover (Hagi)."

I found it interesting that the word Bush Clover in Japanese is Hagi ... in Italian that's the way Haji has been transliterated - in the Muslim faith a Haji (Italian - Hagi) is a person who has gone to Mecca for Sacred Pilgrimage ... which of course has nothing to do with Bush Clover but it struck me anyway as interesting anyway :-) .

Tree Sparrows and Bush Clover (Hagi ni suzume) : Utagawa Hiroshige Japanese, 1797-1858 - RISD Museum

tree sparrows
among the bush clover flowers
chirrup happily

shimmering fog
bush clover flowers swaying
- in the northern wind

© G.s.k. '14

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Here are some haiku written by the haiku Master - Basho:

mire te yuku ya   hito mo okashi   ame no hagi

to get wet

by passing a man is interesting

bush clover in rain

© Basho

shiratsuyu wo kobusanu hagi no uneri kana

not spilling the glistening dew, 

the bush clover, 

undulating

 © Basho

yuujo no onajiyane no moto de amarini moga nemutte iru hagi to tsuki

under the same roof

courtesans, too, are asleep --

bush clover and the moon

© Basho 

Linked to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai