Well, we didn’t make it to Stonehenge’s summer solstice festival, and
weren’t even up for the sunrise today. But, the f/k/a gang always knows
how to celebrate the seasons: with an extra helping of haiku, of course.
In addition to today’s featured poet, Canadian haijin DeVar Dahl, we’ve
invited Rebecca Lilly, Yu Chang and Kobayashi Issa to our solstice party,
with dagosan providing the snacks.
sultry day
a swallow runs its beak
across the pond
long summer day
a hawk holds its place
between the clouds
this heat
words written in the dust
on the shed window
“long summer day” – New Resonance 3: Emerging Voices; Presence 15
“sultry day” – A Piece of Egg Shell (Magpie Haiku Press, 2004); WHC WorldHaikuRev. I:3
“this heat” – WHC Shiki Haiku Poems Contest
the sky colors
of dawn have changed
to summer clothes
stitching together
the short summer nights…
singing frogs
ISSA, translated by David G. Lanoue
A clear hot day
the silence
behind the butterfly
Afternoon warmth–
a soft breeze curling
falled peony petals
Rebecca Lilly, from Shadwell Hills
(Birch Prees Press, 2002)
bumblebee
deeper in the petunia
summer heat
stepping out
with my holey socks
summer stars
Yu Chang, from A New Resonance (1999)
“bumblebee” – Acorn I
by dagosan
summer solstice:
there’s no
shady side of the street
trying to write
one new haiku —
a giant wasp circles my head
June 21, 2005]
June 21, 2005
hello, summer (please keep your cool)
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