Matsuyama City

Carpe Diem #1161 Matsuyama City birth-place of Shiki

Haiku Poems bMasaoki Shikiold

garden—she empties
a hot-water bottle
under the moon

fanning out its tail
in the spring breeze,
see—a peacock!

spring rain:
browsing under an umbrella
at the picture-book store

I found Shiki also wrote Tanka

the bucket’s water
poured out and gone,
drop by drop
dew drips like pearls
from the autumn flowers

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I do not know the day
my pain will end yet
in the little garden
I had them plant
seeds of autumn flowers

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in memory of
the spring now passing
I drew
the long clusters of wisteria
that move like waves

My poms for Matsuyama

 

guarding the mountain
a serpentine rock rises
from Setonaikai

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Matsuyama castle
lovely birds eye view
for cherry blossoms

My poems inspired by Shiki

late winter
browsing the aisles
at the flea market

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in hopes of spring
I clean the wet leaves
from the garden
each shoot  of green
gently uncovered