blossoms shrivel
gone the season’s cool rains
a cloud of midges
born at spring’s passing –
frogs in the old pond splash
© G.s.k. ‘16
Passing of Spring – Tanka – May 1, 2016
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Butterflies – July 4, 2015
Papillons 2 – Odilon Redon at Odilon Redon The Compete Works
this flower garden
alive with bright butterflies
dancing on the wind
summer evening
the butterfly alights
on a red flower
she dreams of a man
dreaming of butterflies
© G.s.k. ‘15
This episode of CDHK is rich with both poetry by Basho and butterflies!
ran no ka ya cho no tusubasa ni takimono su
orchid fragrance
from the butterfly’s wings
scenting the clothes
cho no ha no ikutabi koyuru hei no yane
wings of a butterfly
how many times do they flutter
over roof and wall
kimi ya cho ware ya Soji ga yume gokoro
you are butterfly?
I am Chuang-tzu’s
dreaming heart
cho mo ki te su wo suu kiku no namasu kana
a butterfly also comes
to sip the vinegar from mums (*)
and pickles
‘While I was staying in Awazu, a man who liked tea ceremony very much, invited me and served vinegar boiled chrysanthemum flowers picked from a nearby beach’. He wrote this one for his host, a physician.
okiyo okiyo waga tomo ni se n nuru ko cho
wake up wake up
I want you for a friend
sleeping butterfly
cho no tobu bakari nonaka no hikage kana
a butterfly flies
only in the field
of sunshine
monozuki ya niowa nu kasa ni tomaru cho
how curious
on grass without fragrance
perches a butterfly
© Basho
I’d like to thank Chèvrefeuille for all the work he put into this lovely post … it’s really so rich and fantastic (Link: On The Trail With Basho Encore #7 butterflies) here are Chèvrefeuille’s haiku to honour Basho and his Butterflies:
in the Buddleia
fluttering of fragile wings
waving on the wind
waving on the wind
butterflies resting in the sun
on the Buddleia
the cobweb scattered
by the fluttering of wings
a blue butterfly
on the veranda
a yellowish butterfly
the light of sun down
© Chèvrefeuille
The Scorpion – Shadorma Series – December 28, 2014
Fisher-woman by Odilon Redon – 1900
Sweltering
hot Libyan desert …
underneath
cactus shade …
delitescent scorpion
observes her and knows …
The desert
meets the sea-shore there,
northern winds
ventilate
the beach in the evening,
she looks out to sea.
Maybe lost,
the fisher-woman
looks for hope,
near bankrupt,
to the distant dark sky-line
she drumbles her net.
Once so sweet,
gifts from her lost love,
vile beads glint
now poison –
chain-like they wind round her neck,
but no one sees them.
Scorpion,
knows she’ll keep fishing
(duty calls –
she’ll answer)
she’s not ready for his help
the spectrum’s not black.
© G.s.k. ‘14
Mindlovesmisery’s Menagerie – BJ’s Shadorma & Beyond and Wordle 40
The wordle contains 12 words those words are:
1. Swelter
2. Scorpion
3. Ventilation
4. Shrink
5. Cactus
6. Desert
7. Drumble (moving a slow or sluggish manner)
8. Spectrum
9. Delitescent (hidden or concealed)
10. Vile
11. Bead
12. Bankrupt
Rules
Use at least 10 of the words to create a story or poem
The words can appear in an alternate form
Use the words in any order that you like.
What is a Shadorma?
The Shadorma is a poetic form consisting of a six-line stanza (or sestet). The form is alleged to have originated in Spain. Each stanza has a syllable count of three syllables in the first line, five syllables in the second line, three syllables in the third and fourth lines, seven syllables in the fifth line, and five syllables in the sixth line (3/5/3/3/7/5) for a total of 26 syllables. A poem may consist of one stanza, or an unlimited number of stanzas (a series of shadorma).
