Hi Gabi: Here is my challenger haiku: alone by moonlight did the Challenger crew touch the face of God? Chen-ou Liu Note: The crew of the space shuttle...
thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. Indeed, we will never forget them! Gabi http://databaseworldkigo.blogspot.jp/2012/01/challenger-shuttle.html...
If I may briefly remember Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, and one of the greatest, if not THE greatest physicist since Einstein. In...
Dear Larry, Thank you for this added information. The space historian I've worked with, on the World Space Week Rocket Dreams commission (2007), to combine a...
"Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children's book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized...
Here are several more 'yellow' haiku to add to your collection: teshoku shite iro ushinaeru hi gi ku kana The yellow chrysanthemums Lose their color In the...
gogatsu nobori tatsu ie ie no mukoo ni umi carp streamers of May stand in front of each house and behind them the sea Hagiwara Sakutaro (tr. Gabi Greve) ...
Dear Gabi san, Here is one more I came across, but hesitated to post, because for me it exemplifies both the potential strength and potential weakness of ...
Interesting, Gabi, I wrote a rengay 2 years ago with that theme; title: saffron yellow. My haiku: the wind carries a yellow cloud over the rape flowers...
I'd like to know if that's what Shiki meant. Maybe someone can translate the relevant part of that page. Nice haiku, Heike! Here are several more 'mellow...
higurashi ya nookyoochoo no yamazumi ni evening cicada - the stamp books pile up like a mountain Ishizaki Soobin (tr. Gabi Greve) more about the stamp books...
Yesterday, Sunday, May 13, 2012, was Mother's Day in the United States, and in some other countries as well. Following are some haiku that Japanese haiku poets...
kawa-baori mise ni yuku nari toshi no ichi showing off his long leather jacket at the New Year's market Kobayashi Issa (Tr. Christopher Drake) Read more about...
Jean Sibelius - so sweet melodies that i fell asleep - Shared by Hideo Suzuki - Haiku and cultural keywords - Jean Sibelius 8 December 1865 – 20 September...
eclipse morning - the paddies as quiet as ever <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_N330fIlr2A/T7mXCYwAkNI/AAAAAAAAk1Y/fJhV0pY6ZYA/s1600/05%2Bsun%2Babove%2Bpaddie.JPG> ...
susamaji ya sugina bakari no oka hitotsu how overwhelming ! a whole hill full of field horsetail . Masaoka Shiki (tr. Gabi Greve) More about this plant, kigo...
iku sa ki sa Nakasendoo wa kita oroshi coming and going - along the Nakasendo blows a cold northern wind . Mitsuhashi Toshio (Tr. Gabi Greve) . More about the...
Today I compiled a few haiku by Matsuo Basho, when he traveled the Nakasendo road. They are good examples of combining place names, personal names and kigo to ...
itadori ya toorai sugite mochi ni tsuki knotweed - past its prime right for pounding mochi Kobayashi Issa (Tr. Gabi Greve) Japanese knotweed and its kigo ... ...
