February 11, 2011
Snow ginko and haiga special
During the lunch hour, I set out again into snow. I meant it to be just a casual snap-shooting walk, but there were so many interesting scenes, my walk zigzaged. When I reach the foot of mountains, my leather shoes were all drenched wet. I kept on going till I reached the thicket of an old Shinto shrine (Yamanobe-no-Michi Trail, oldest path in Japan, passes through there). My steps became easy for most of the snow stayed on the tangle of tall tree branches. Here and there, the branches gave and shower of powder snow fell. It was like momentary waterfall.
On snowy day,
bushwarblers the bird
of Spring colors
春色の鳥やうぐいす雪の日に
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my deepest admiration
Wonderful images and poetry!
Here's a couple of recent snow haiku plus one back to 1999.
tilting at the world
the late morning finds
a smaller snowman
Alan Summers
Publications credits:
Blithe Spirit vol.20 no.4 (2010)
snowed in
I watch the streetlamps
and dream of Narnia
Alan Summers
Publications credits:
Blithe Spirit vol. 20 no. 4 (2010)
floating snowflakes -
the triple caw of a crow
within the tree
Alan Summers
Publications credits:
Snapshots six (1999); Watermark: a poet's notebook (2004); Mainichi Shimbun (2008)
all my best,
Alan
Alan’s Area 17 blog
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Beautiful, indeed.
The photo of rose in snow reminds me of one of mine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041216032400/www.worldhaikureview.org/ecards/topcards.php
melting snowman
his carrot on the ground
still fresh
:)
Sorry, too long URL in my previous comment - perhaps this one will go through:
worldhaikureview.org/ecards/topcards.php
Thanks for sharing nice snow haiku. Snow is probably one of the most common themes used in haiku. It is so inspirational.
These are all lovely. The snow ginko was my favorite -but I like all of them (photos and haiku)
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