When I write haiku, I try to write about what’s happening around me, even if I’m writing for a prompt … that’s not always easy of course.
One of the subjects that I’ve written extensively about is rain. Last year we had a very very rainy summer so of course it was easy to write about rain! The haiku I’m going to show you though came from a period when I wasn’t yet writing for CDHK. In 2013 I wrote a haiku a day (more or less) beginning around March – most of them are now private) inspiring myself from the world around me .. and lo! I discovered that I’d written quite a few about rain – often using the rain as a metaphor for what I was feeling at the time – so using the rain to express sadness.
July 5, 2013
from hard night’s rain
dawn watery puddled clouds
serene illusions
April 28, 2013
yesterday’s sadness
tear drops in the rain
carefully hidden
July 13, 2103
muddy yellow sky
like dried-up African clay
contemplating rain
July 25, 2013
sunset and golden sky
glowing rays rain from the clouds
mountains wet with sun
October 1,2013
puzzle swirling change
inside a vision of life
outside falling rain
But perhaps my favourite of all my rain haiku it the following – based on one of my first photographs for this blog:
sunshine rain fall
crystals drop before my eyes
noon-tide fairy lights
( originally – for I’ve since edited this haiku:
July 22, 2013
rain falls in sunshine
crystal drops eye’s delight
fairy lights at noon)
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Haiku for July eighth’s rain:
kettledrum concert
booming in the mountains
then silent rain drops
standing in the rain
ah – this wilted flower sighs
with each cooling drop
© G.s.k. ‘15
Written for: Carpe Diem Utabukuro #4 tears falling
Like the image of the kettledrum concert in the mountains!
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It was “vibrating” … it woke me up the other morning. The thing about thunder and mountains is that they keep booming forever!
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Yes, indeed– a lovely image !!!!
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🙂 thanks so much Chris.
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I love every word!!
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Wow …your 2013 haiku are really beautiful Georgia, no need to keep them private. As i read your today response … than i can only say your haiku skills have grown. Two nice haiku for the present time … don’t close them in your private collection … they are diamonds.
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Thanks very much Chèvrefeuille. I’ve been trying to transfer them onto Word to eventually catalogue them and put together an e-book … but it’s a rather slow process.
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Each haiku is a visual feast! I think the final two are my absolute favorite. I really really like them.
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Thanks Dolores … I’m so happy you enjoyed them!
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We all have favorite themes – or meaningful themes – we revisit. So interesting to see your rain haiku over the past two years 🙂
Kettledrum concert is a great image 🙂
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It certainly was a noisy event … yes of course you are correct … there are themes and images that always return.
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Lovely series, Georgia! I think we are having the summer you had last year with the rain but I don’t complain since so many are suffering with droughts and fires.
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That’s no fun for you .. but of course there’s the up side .. no droughts or fires!
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Yes, I must not complain, Sasketchewan has been on fire for so long…here it was sunny today, sunny forecast tomorrow with 30C and 80% humidity making it feel like 40…I feel like there is a furnace under my skin…but better than minus 20!
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Ugh … I know that muggy feeling of humidity and warm temps … and yes it’s better than minus 20 … but it would be so nice to have just normal warm weather without all the humidity … So sorry about Saskatchewan – I travelled through it as a youth going to Alaska my first taste of Canada actually.
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