In yesterday’s post I mentioned an old Japanese haiku legend about the haikai master, Saikaku: he supposedly composed 23,500 verses in 24 hours. So I compose an hour’s worth of verses myself. Here are a few “looking out my window” haiku:
in my garden
an unwanted rooter
pig weed
north wind this morning
the scarecrow sheds his flowered shirt
for a white pullover
two dozen sparrows
cling to the caraganas
ornamental visitors
Christine's Collection 
Wonderful haiku!!!
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Thank you. 🙂
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re:
north wind this morning
the scarecrow sheds his flowered shirt
for a white pullover
I do like a sparser version of :
north wind
the scarecrow sheds
his flowered shirt
Or going by the traditional Japanese route of haiku in a single line:
north wind the scarecrow sheds his flowered shirt
While the West has so many rules about haiku, sometimes we should go Japanese instead! 🙂
warm regards,
Alan
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Thank you. Yes, the simpler version would work well, since “north wind” says cold. I wanted the white for snow, rather than implying the shirt just blows off, but maybe it’s too much data for one verse.
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I really like the third one.
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Thank you. Perhaps, to keep more in form, I should have used “guests” instead of the longer word visitors. Nevertheless, I refer to people ready to hang around and partake but do nothing to help. The sparrows in our yard are very eager for the treats and leave a mess behind. 🙂
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Nice. You’ll be rivalling his record in no time!
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I don’t think so! 🙂
Besides, I have other fish to fry. I spend a good half-hour this morning with a pencil, reproducing the picture you posted on your blog a few days ago. the yacht sailing into the inlet, with the ocean in the background. Only I moved the round whatever-it-was to the left shore and added a house in its place. Artistic license? Now maybe I should draw it on canvas and paint it. 🙂
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Wow, I’m honoured! I’d love to see it. The round building is one of 70 or so Martello Towers built along our coast in the early 1800s to defend England from an invasion by Napolean – France is just a short distance across the sea. They each had a cannon perched on top! What you can’t see is the most hideous block of apartments recently built a short distance away!
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Of course wherever there’s a lovely view there has to be a block of apartments go up. 🙂
I took yet more artistic liberty in my sketch and in the foreground I drew a walkway down to the shore. At present it’s just a rough pencil sketch, but maybe I’ll copy it on canvas and paint it. These days I’m eager to paint so much. “Obsessive,” I think they call it. 🙂
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From what you’ve been saying, it does seem to taking over of late … and by the way, I’m all for artistic license!
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Lovely!
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Thank you.
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Pig weed is the worst!
How has your spring been thus far?
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