Tag Archives: Dawn

Dawn – September 8, 2016 (Carpe Diem Haiku Kai)

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On Carpe Diem Haiku Kai today the challenge is: Try to create a haiku in which you use “the fragment and phrase” way of writing haiku using the Jan’s modern kigo, dawn.  Here are a few examples of this technique particular to haiku using Jane Reichhold’s haiku:

rosy dawn
colors the moon
into the sea

spring dawn
darkness flies from the trees
with the bird

the sound of waves
on your sleeping face
dawn light

© Jane Reichhold

and by our host Chèvrefeuille:

her naked body
glistens from sweat
after a hot night

daylight brightens
a rooster crows his sun greet
the silence deepens

© Chèvrefeuille

rainy dawn

wet dawn
greeting another day
with raindrops

© Gsk ‘16

 this hidden spring
refreshes who quaffs
as dawn passes

at dawn
the swallows swoop
into the sun

© Gsk ‘16 (on Tumblr)

Matins – Haiga – February 16, 2016

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matins haiga

 

 

wandering
in and out of shadows
matins are ringing

© G.s.k. ‘16

Matins: the monastic nighttime liturgy, ending at dawn, of the canonical hours. In the Roman Catholic pre-Vatican-II breviary, it is divided into three nocturns. The name “matins” originally referred to the morning office also known as lauds.  In the Latin based languages like French and Italian matin or mattino means morning.

Hatsuhikari (first light of the sun) – Morning haiku and waka – January 1, 2015

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Sunrise

Sunrise

first light of the sun
streaming upon this new year
in fragile silence

here, the mountains shine
tipping over the skyline
first sunlight
as the day and year are born
a sparrow greets the dawn

© G.s.k. ‘16

Carpe Diem #888 Hatsuhikari (first light of the sun)

In this first episode of the year, on Carpe Diem Haiku Kai we begin to explore modern and classical kigo or season words.  In honour of the day hatsuhikari (hatsu means first and hikari means light of the sun) which is an excellent kigo for new year morning (which gives us a sense of the renewal of this special day) and therefore a splendid winter kigo.

winter morning
first light of the sun … so fragile
reflects in the snow

© Chèvrefeuille

Morning Haiku and Waka – November 28, 2015

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carpet of leaves

morning walk
silence in the city
dawn breaks

each morning bleaker
carpets of leaves
skeleton trees

dawn visions
ravens on the wind
the beech stands nude

in the sky
another bird rumbles –
the plane for Venice

white cat mews
locked out of the house
cold in the courtyard

returning home
my poetry awaits me
embracing life

warming the water
a hot cup of green tea
no sugar needed

© G.s.k. ‘15

This week’s heeding haiku with Chèvrefeuille November 25th 2015,”baransu” on Mindlovesmisery’s Menagerie is very interesting indeed.  Here Chèvrefeuille does a break down and explanation of how to create balance in a haiku … here are the haiku he used as examples:

a walk through the city
step by step I discover
a newly built world

© Chèvrefeuille

the old pond
a frog jumps into it
sound of water

© Basho (Tr. Chèvrefeuille)

the old pond
yesterday … Irises bloomed
only a faint purple

© Chèvrefeuille

mountain stream
salmon swims to the well in thin air
rebirth of summer

© Chèvrefeuille