Ghost Writer - Jen: The Cold Within The Sound - November 26, 2014

Photo © Jen R.

sudden blizzard
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 bay  

I see clouds of cold rain  

summoning winter  

and hear the wind in the pines  

whisper 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