first firefly

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first firefly -
the valley alights
with new hope





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smell of green

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first spring weeding -
the smell of green
on my fingers



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A true gardener... gloveless! :))
Happy Easter, dear Gabi san.




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Buddha after Rain

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after the rain - the hollow eyes of Buddha

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Even w/out rain, vertebrates coming thru the throat?
The picture shows someone trying to starve himself (if i recall right, a woman had to be magically turned to a man to become a buddha at death) into a Miira, or mummy.
What is the story?
Who painted the white below the eyes?
But, wow, hunger can do that (so can neurolgia -- sp? -- or at least i FELT the caverns in and around my eyes before i managed to repair my hurt neck)! As it makes us feel skull-like, we can find a hollowness that, oddly enuf, reflects the content of the Buddha's huge belly: nothing!
Too many words? Perhaps.

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. The Stone Buddha in my Garden . 　


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blue sky -
two white swans
in the green lake


Gabi Greve


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tandem shadows
I look up to see
two white ibis

Johannes Manjrekar





saffron sky
the green leaves
curling into brown

Asni Amin






first maple
leaves color the yard...
still morning glory

Jimmy ThePeach


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weeding summer grasses

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May 15, 2012




weeding my garden -
such great peace
and sunshine




every sunshine
and every drop of rain
feed my weeds

- Shared by Hideo Suzuki -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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September 1, 2012

some were discussing the pros and cons of defining haiku in English . . .
citing the famous haiku by Basho about summer grasses . . .

夏草や兵どもが夢の跡
natsukusa ya tsuwamano-domo ga yume no ato


haiku is a word of the Japanese language, where it has a certain meaning.
haiku has also become a word in other languages, where it has taken on various meanings.

so writing a short poem called "haiku" is different things to different people - we just have to acknowledge this in the end, I think.

I write mostly Japanese haiku of the traditional flavor, but sometimes (it all depends on the situation) I write senryu, zappai or just plain short little poems . . . I hope the reader can figure out which is which ... if not, please label them as is fit to your understanding of the genre
and most of all -
enjoy what you are reading.


summer grasses
grow wild in my garden -
I call them weeds

sometimes
I call my weeds "wild flowers" -
it all depends on the situation

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summer weeds
yet I bend my back gladly
to gather them
Ella Wagemakers



summer weeds -
plants that grow best for me
in this region
Elaine Andre



summer grasses -
some with flowers
others with vines
Hideo Suzuki


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Buddha and lavender

rainy night - the smell of lavender and fireflies ................................................................................. coming closer - the silent prayer of lavender

weather forecast just announced another
four weeks of the rainy season to go . . .


Look at more

. My Garden Flowers in June .


. My Buddha and Lavender - June 2009 .



. More of my haiku about Stone Buddhas .


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Haiku and Tanuki

Haiku kun with Tanuki and Inari Foxes ................................................................................. unusual friends share in the fun - spring sunshine

. Tanuki, the Badger . 　


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palm in snow

late snow - the palm tree wonders about global warming

Reaction from friends :


You should be in Canada, Gabi! Normally we're dealing with temps hovering around freezing or just a tad above, in March... instead we are in a heat wave with mid 20's Celsius... I know I should worry about global warming too,
but this sure does beat snow and ice and winter coats!!!!!

still winter
yet on the maple tree
new growth

D.



D. and Gabi

We had such a sever drought last year....and so much loss due to fires...and this year, lots of rain/huge storm fronts creating havoc in TX....flooding, tornadoes, sink holes...it's so strange and yet we are led to believe...it's normal. We had no real winter here and so my roses were not pruned...they bloomed continuously all winter and I couldn't (didn't know how either, with such growth on them) cut into them. My yard is a swamp.

It has rained so much I have to walk the dogs on the driveway and the edges only...if they venture into the grass/way over grown weeds....they will sink knee deep in mud. I know all this is trivial compared to what is happening elsewhere in the world...but it is the "everyday" weirdness...the small things that have been getting me lately...and... in the last few years. Things like (I'm no bird watcher...but I should get a few books) birds in my yard in greater quantities and birds I have never seen before in my yard (in 30 years of living here....have to wonder what is happening at my other home in the Keys).... makes you wonder. Personally, I think it's (the weird weather) only going to get worse.

spring rain
the cannas bob
with heavy heads

P.



On the way to global warming, expect global weirding.
B.



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Ebisu in Snow

snow on his face - my Ebisu smiles in the morning sun

. Ebisu えびす　恵比寿　 .

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snow and sunshine

snow and sunshine - the patterns of sky and earth

START from here
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Friday, February 03, 2012 - NHK news

Heavy snowfall peaks in northern Japan

The heavy snow in northern and central Japan has passed its peak.
But weather officials warn that snow is likely to continue falling on the Sea of Japan coast through Saturday.
The Meteorological Agency says the winter pressure pattern has weakened, brining an end to the heavy snowfall that began in late January.

At 11 AM on Friday, Okura Village in Yamagata Prefecture had 3.51 meters of snow.
Tsunan Town in Niigata Prefecture had 3.48 meters.

The agency predicts that snow will fall on and off in mountainous regions of central and northern Japan through Saturday.
Some areas, mainly along the Sea of Japan, have double to triple the usual amount of snow.

Japan Railway companies say that shinkansen bullet trains are being delayed by up to 45 minutes between Nagoya and Shin-Osaka.
Air traffic has also been disrupted by the snow.

Weather officials are advising caution for traffic disruptions, avalanches and snow-related accidents.


Mercury hits record lows in Japan

A cold air mass over Japan brought the coldest morning of the season on Friday. Temperatures marked record lows in many parts of the country.
Officials say the weather is clear in many places, after days of heavy snow. Temperatures hit all-time lows at 38 locations across Japan.

In the southwestern island of Kyushu, the temperature was minus 14.7 degrees Celsius in Oita Prefecture. It was minus 10.6 degrees in Kumamoto Prefecture.
The cold weather suspended operations at a thermal power plant in Oita Prefecture in the morning. The plant operator says the cause was frozen air pipes, and that power-generating turbines are now being restored.

Elsewhere in Japan, it was minus 26 degrees in Nobeyama-kogen in the central part of the country. Minus 15.5 degrees was recorded in Okayama Prefecture in western Japan.

Weather officials said sub-zero temperatures were experienced at most of the observation points across the country.
Tokyo was among them. The temperature was minus 1 degree.


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snow on robai

morning meditation - how yellow is yellow ?

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hortensia snow

mother rests under a cover of snow and sparkles

. Photo Album - Winter 2011/12 .


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Lily with visitor

deeper and deeper the heart of the lily unfolds looking for the secret of nature - show me your fragrance

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deeper and deeper
the heart of the lily
unfolds
eagerly expecting
a welcomed visitor

Vic Gendrano

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Heavy Snowfall

heavy snowfall - a white silence deepens starker Schneefall - die weisse Stille vertieft (Haiga by Ashe, the Green Leaf) 雪しきり白き静寂や深くなり yuki shikiri shiroki seijaku ya fukaku nari (Tr. by Nakamura Sakuo) Co-operation of Gabi, Sakuo and Ashe. Thank you all so much ! ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: from a hanga calendar 2008

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Look at the graves in Summertime
夏のお墓も見てください


Heavy Snow in Ohaga
大垪和に大雪


Silence and Haiga, a great collection
静けさと俳画、すばらしいコレクション


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Karl the Froggie

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taking a rest in the silken chamber - yellow calla Ruhepause im seidenen Gemach - gelbe Calla

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Another version :


taking a rest
in the silken chamber -
the prince and the calla



Here is what I had in mind when I saw my prince in the chamber:

Four thousand six hundred and twenty-three years ago the heavens were out of repair. So the Goddess of Works set to work and prepared 36,501 blocks of precious jade, each 240 feet square by 120 feet in depth. Of these, however, she only used 36,500, and cast aside the single remaining block upon one of the celestial peaks.

This stone, under the process of preparation, had become as it were spiritualised. It could expand or contract. It could move. It was conscious of the existence of an eternal world, and it was hurt at not having been called upon to accomplish its divine mission.

One day a Buddhist and a Taoist priest, who happened to be passing that way, sat down for a while to rest, and noticed the disconsolate stone which lay there, no bigger than the pendant of a lady's fan .....


Flowers fade and fly,
and flying fill the sky;
Their bloom departs, their perfume gone,
yet who stands pitying by?

The peach-tree and the plum-tree too
next year may bloom again,
But next year, in the inner rooms,
tell me, shall I remain?


Thus begins a wonderful story of Old China

The Dream of the Red Chamber
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CHING/DREAM.HTM





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Calla, カラー
kigo for early summer
"sweet potato of the sea" kaiu, kai-u 海芋（かいう）
Her form seems to ressemble that of a sweet potato. It is a very elegant and beautiful flower image for haiku.




Zantedeschia is a genus of twenty-eight species of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa from South Africa north to Malawi. The name of the genus was given as a tribute to Italian botanist Giovanni Zantedeschi (1773-1846) by the German botanist Kurt Sprengel (1766 - 1833). Common names include Arum lily for Z. aethiopica, calla, and calla lily for Z. elliottiana and Z. rehmannii although it is neither a true lily (Liliaceae), nor Arum or Calla (related genera in Araceae).
It is also often erroneously spelled as "cala lily".
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !


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happily watching
the dewdrops forming...
a frog


-Issa, 1808
http://www.xula.edu/cat/issa/

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frog concert
prelude to the next
cycle of life


Froschkonzert
Praeludium zum naechsten
Lebenszyklus

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the whole valley
vibrates with joy -
frog concert

Gabi Greve, Summer 2004


. first frog concert in 2012 .


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Karl and his many brothers and sisters
are part of the Gokuraku Paradise Family.

Here are some more of his favorite places:

Buddha's Voice Frog 仏の声の蛙

Frog in Buddha's Eye 仏の目にカール君

Cicada Birthday with Frog 　蝉の誕生　semi セミ

Voice of Buddha .. .. Frogs Farting :o) 。。蛙の屁

Frog in the Sunset 杜若と夕日

Frog and Truth, May 2006

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Frog (kawazu, kaeru) a kigo in the database

encounters with the enemy frog and cat

The Frog in the Manga An old Scroll

Karl on a rose, Autumn 2008

Karl on a green leaf, June 2009

Where is Karl ? - the BIG picture


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The story goes on in November 2005:

The Frog, well for the Japanese it reminds most of the good old Edo period, the Hut of Basho and the quietude of the old pond.

For many Europeans the mention of a frog first reminds us of the tale of the frog being kissed and then changing to a beautiful prince.

old pond
the prince jumps in -
sound of metamorphosis

古池や王子飛び込む変身の音

http://ohaga.blogspot.com/2005/11/kitty-daruma.html

To this, Origa responded:

Gabi san, your frog in the calla lily is adorable! :)))

And what a coincidence: we have just had a Basho-ki haiku writing in my Live Journal, and some of the haiku were written on the theme of a Prince-frog (or, in Russian version, it's a Princess-frog, Tsarevna-lyagushka)!

Please take a look at all the haiku for Basho-ki, here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/origa/74925.html?nc=129

They are
all bilingual, so that all of you can read all haiku :)

And this is a very lovely haiku by Kilmeny, contributed our our haiku
writing -- about the Princess frog :)))

old princess
the frog happy to stay
a frog

Kilmeny

And her beautiful sumi-e Mr.Frog haiga:

http://www.kilmenyniland.com/haiga2005/mrtoad.html

And as always -- welcome to join the fun, at any time -- just go to
http://www.livejournal.com/users/origa/, and meet my haiku friends
from all over the world! :)

Origa
http://www.livejournal.com/users/origa/

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!!!!! The Sound of Water, a thorough discussion !!!!!

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More Frogs in my Garden



by my friend, the potter
Takagaki Mondo 高垣門土　Mondo Takagaki


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Haiku and Moments

haiku moments - in the temple garden stones asleep

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AHA, the HAIKU MOMENT
Haiku no shunkan ?　俳句の瞬間　？？



ZEN and HAIKU

I tried hard to find a Japanese translation for the “Zen Moment”,
but this word is not common in Japanese haiku teaching, as far as I know.

I have written more on the subject here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/happyhaiku/message/1296


Haiku Topics: MU

KOAN and Haiku (01) .. 公案と俳句

KOAN and Haiku (02) .. Dreams 夢

KOAN and Haiku (03)

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