Results of the
SSH 3 Summer Kigo Contest
Hello SHH Participants!
I enjoyed reading the submissions for this event. I chose
three that I felt had an originality as well as insight. In
the future I was thinking about choosing according to topic-
humanity, animals, etc. Keep that in mind when sending in
you next submissions for Autumn. Thank you!
I am looking forward to the next SHH No. 4: Autumn
~Karina Klesko
Karina’s Choices
First Choice:
scorching sun
drying herbs lose their
healing strength
~Diana Teneva, BG
Summer Kigo: "scorching sun": Sky and elements: Yuki
Teikei Haiku Society (San Jose) Kigo List with San Francisco
Bay Area Regional Kigo, Summer Season on-line:
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
Second Choice Tie:
wild iris
I remember her manicured
hands
~Angie Werren, US
Summer Kigo: wild iris (ayame, mid summer, summer plants):
The Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words
Selected by Kenkichi Yamamoto Translated by Kris Young Kondo
and William J. Higginson online:
http://haikai.2hweb.net/renku/500ESWd.html#SUMMER--THE%20SEASON
shoelaces
to match his tie
Father’s Day
~Alegria Imperial, CA
Summer kigo: “Father’s Day” Spring/Humanity and Observances
from World Kigo Database (WKD)
http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2006/11/womens-day-international.html
Third Sunday: Father’s Day. This is a holiday imported from
the United States. It is not as widely adhered to as
Mother’s Day, though. Gifts are given to fathers and can
include such things as belts, wallets and neckties or things
the child or children make themselves.
Third Choice Tie:
news of your death
when I open my eyes
green leaves
~Angie Werren, US
Summer Kigo: green leaves (aoba, all summer, summer plants):
The Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words
Selected by Kenkichi Yamamoto Translated by Kris Young Kondo
and William J. Higginson online:
http://haikai.2hweb.net/renku/500ESWd.html#SUMMER--THE%20SEASON
billowing clouds
fading into the east
this day will also pass
~Bernard Gieske, US
Summer Kigo: Sky and Elements : “cumulus/billowing cloud”.
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San
Jose):
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
Summer rain—
friends for a moment
under an umbrella.
~Dan Iulian, RO
Summer Kigo: "summer rain: Sky and Elements" in Yuki
Teikei Haiku Society (San Jose) Kigo List with San Francisco
Bay Area Regional Kigo, Summer Season. This is a
printed, two-sided handout, distributed to members, and also
online:
www.youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
Children,
playful:
nose to glass
in the aquarium
raining jellies
~Neal Whitman, US
Summer Kigo: "Animals: jelly fish" in Yuki Teikei
Haiku Society (San Jose) Kigo List with San Francisco Bay
Area Regional Kigo, Summer Season. This is a printed,
two-sided handout, distributed to members, and also online:
www.youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
the sound of her voice—
where does a firefly
go during the day?
~Poppy Herrin, US
Summer Kigo: “firefly”—hotaru: Animals: The Haiku
Handbook. William J. Higginson, p. 274.
This one embraced my emotions. I like this one for my friend
Betty Kaplan who passed away July 25, 2011:
news of your death
when I open my eyes
green leaves
~Angie Werren, US
Summer Kigo: green leaves (aoba, all summer, summer plants):
The Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words
Selected by Kenkichi Yamamoto Translated by Kris Young Kondo
and William J. Higginson online:
http://haikai.2hweb.net/renku/500ESWd.html#SUMMER--THE%20SEASON
smoldering hot—
beside the trail marker
an animal skull
~John Daleiden, US
Summer Kigo: "smoldering [hot] (moyuru,
late summer):
The Season": in The Five Hundred Essential Japanese
Season Words. Selected by
Kenkichi Yamamoto
Translated by
Kris Young Kondo
and
William J. Higginson
Edited for Renku Home on-line:
http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html
