SSH 4 Contest:
July / August 31: 7-4-43 ~ Karina Klesko, Editor
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Fourteen haijin
from seven countries contributed haiku to SSH 4
Participants: Maire Morrisey-Cummins, IR; Tracy Davidson, UK; Robert Davey, UK; Heike Gewi, DE; Bernard Gieske, US; Vishnu P.
Kapoor, IN; Pravat
Kumar Padhy, IN;
Asim Kumar Paul, IN;
Jacquie Pearce, CA;
Hema Ravi, IN;
Djurdja Vukelic Rozic, CR;
Diana Teneva, BG; Angie
Werren, US;
Neal Whitman, US
Countries: Bangladesh, Croatia, India,
Ireland, Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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Contestant No. 01: Participant
tree after
tree
image of devout surrender
falling leaves
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Autumn Kigo: "falling leaves": Plants:
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San Jose) Kigo List with San
Francisco Bay Area Regional Kigo, Autumn Season on-line:
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
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Contestant No.
02:
Participant
autumn wind
in the reeds
clapping waves
on the shore
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Autumn Kigo: "autumn
wind": Sky and elements: Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San
Jose) Kigo List with San Francisco Bay Area Regional
Kigo, Autumn Season on-line:
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
chilly night
houses huddle
down in the valley
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Autumn Kigo: "chilly
night": Season: Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San Jose) Kigo
List with San Francisco Bay Area Regional Kigo, Autumn
Season on-line:
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
an owl’s
screech
claims the chilly night
wind in the reeds
~
Autumn Kigo: "chilly
night": Season: Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San Jose) Kigo
List with San Francisco Bay Area Regional Kigo, Autumn
Season on-line:
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
plaintive
call of the loon
through the mist
long night
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Autumn Kigo: "long
night": Season: Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San Jose) Kigo
List with San Francisco Bay Area Regional Kigo, Autumn
Season on-line:
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
autumn
evening
a frog chorus
breaks open the night
~
Autumn Kigo: "autumn
evening": Season: Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San Jose)
Kigo List with San Francisco Bay Area Regional Kigo,
Autumn Season on-line: http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
Bernard Gieske
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Contestant No. 03:
Participant
first storm
pair of crows curve
their wings
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Autumn Kigo: “first
storm”, hatsu arashi, early autumn)": The Season: in The
Five
Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words Selected by
Kenkichi Yamamoto, Translated
by Kris Young Kondo and William J. Higginson
online:http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html#AUTUMN
autumn dusk
I return with floating
shadows
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Autumn Kigo: “autumn
dusk”, aki no kure, all autumn)": The Season: in The Five
Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words Selected
by Kenkichi Yamamoto, Translated
by Kris Young Kondo and William J. Higginson on-
line:http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html#AUTUMN
long night
newly weds plant
more stars
~
Autumn Kigo:”long
night”, yonaga, all autumn)": The Season: in The Five
Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words Selected
by Kenkichi Yamamoto, Translated by Kris
Young Kondo and William J. Higginson on-line:
http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html#AUTUMN
rice sparrows
the field springs to
new life
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Autumn Kigo: “rice
sparrows”, inesuzume, all autumn)": The Season: in The
Five
Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words Selected
by Kenkichi Yamamoto, Translated
by Kris Young Kondo and William J. Higginson on-
line:http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html#AUTUMN
peeling away
layers of memories--
autumn loneliness
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Autumn Kigo: “autumn
loneliness” Human Affairs”: The Yuki Teikei Haiku Season
Word
List on-line
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
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Contestant No. 04:
Participant
catching
dragonflies
the net full
of your freshly washed hair
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Autumn Kigo:
"catching dragonflies" - tonbotsuri: Animals: The Haiku
Handbook, William J Higginson, p. 279.
fallen leaves
searching through the litter
for my ring
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Autumn Kigo: "fallen
leaves" - ochiba: Plants: The Haiku Handbook,
William J Higginson, p. 280.
autumn's
close
the crunch underfoot
of discarded condom wrappers
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Autumn Kigo:
"autumn's close" - aki no kure: Season, Climate: The Haiku
Handbook, William J Higginson, p. 276.
autumn dusk
not knowing
how to say goodbye
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Autumn Kigo: "autumn
dusk" - aki no kure: Season, Climate: The Haiku Handbook,
William J Higginson, p. 276.
crescent moon
I trace the outline
of his scar
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Autumn Kigo:
"crescent moon" - mikazuki: Astronomy: The Haiku Handbook,
William J Higginson, p. 277.
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Contestant
No. 05:
Participant
born out of
night's womb
the moon casting down beams
over the reaped fields
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Autumn Kigo: "reaped
fields ": Landscape: Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San Jose)
Kigo List with San Francisco Bay Area Regional Kigo,
Autumn Season.
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
children in
hunting for red leaves…
restless joy
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Autumn Kigo:
"hunting for red leaves ": Human Affairs: Yuki Teikei
Haiku Society (San Jose) Kigo List with San Francisco
Bay Area Regional Kigo, Autumn Season.
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
scarecrow’s
sleeves…
hidden crickets creak
out of them
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Autumn Kigo: "
scarecrow ": Human Affairs: Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San
Jose) Kigo List with San Francisco Bay Area Regional
Kigo, Autumn Season.http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
the pumpkin—
queen in the garden
corner
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Autumn Kigo: "
pumpkin ": Plants: Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San Jose)
Kigo List with San Francisco Bay Area Regional Kigo,
Autumn Season.
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
raking
leaves…
omitting check marks
in the checklist
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Autumn Kigo: "raking
leaves ": Human Affairs: Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San
Jose) Kigo List with San Francisco Bay Area Regional
Kigo, Autumn Season.
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
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Contestant
No. 06:
Participant
Muddy corn
field,
They planting paddy saplings,
Autumn is coming.
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Autumn Kigo: autumn
paddy (aki no ta, all autumn): AUTUMN--THE EARTH:
http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html#AUTUMN
Rain drops
falling,
Sunrays peep through mackerel clouds
Rainbow in the sky.
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Autumn Kigo:
mackerel clouds (iwashigumo, all autumn): AUTUMN--THE HEAVENS:
http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html#AUTUMN
They are
making idols,
Always worship in autumn
Devi Durga coming home.
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Autumn Kigo: "Devi
Durga":
AUTUMN--OBSERVANCES: Chrysanthemum Festival (chooyoo, late
autumn). Ninth day of the ninth lunar month, about mid October.
Note: Our famous Durga Pujo or worship of the Goddess Durga
generally held in the month of October every year(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durga_Puja).
This year Durga Pujo begins with Mahalaya on 15th October, 2012
and worship starts from 19th October, 2012 to 24th October,
2012.
http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html#AUTUMN
OH to be
brave traveler
To walk on sunshine in autumn sky,
On a white-cloud-board.
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Autumn Kigo: autumn
sky (aki no sora, all autumn). Particularly for the intensity:
AUTUMN--THE HEAVENS.
http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html#AUTUMN
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Contestant
No. 07:
Participant
Hwaet!
disembodied ghost
or day-time moon?
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Autumn Kigo: moon
(understood to be a full moon) in "Sky and Elements" in
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San Jose) Kigo List with San
Francisco Bay Area Regional Kigo, Autumn Season. This is a
printed, two-sided handout, distributed to members, and also
online:
www.youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
chilly night
zipped up as we walk
to Vespers
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Autumn Kigo: chilly
night in "Season" in Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San Jose)
Kigo List with San Francisco Bay Area Regional Kigo,
Autumn Season. This is a printed, two-sided handout, distributed
to members, and also online:
www.youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
morning air
crisp and thin
sliced apple
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Autumn Kigo: apple
in "Plants" in Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San Jose) Kigo
List with San Francisco Bay Area Regional Kigo, Autumn Season.
This is a printed, two-sided handout, distributed to members,
and also online:
www.youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
first autumn
storm
pounding the house
I ponder Yeats
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Autumn Kigo: autumn
storm in "Sky and Elements" in Yuki Teikei Haiku Society
(San Jose) Kigo List with San Francisco Bay Area
Regional Kigo, Autumn Season. This is a printed, two-sided
handout, distributed to members, and also online:
www.youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
persimmon
jelly
on sourdough toast
oh my puckered lips
~
Autumn Kigo:
persimmon in "Plants" in Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (San
Jose) Kigo List with San Francisco Bay Area Regional
Kigo, Autumn Season. This is a printed, two-sided handout,
distributed to members, and also online:
www.youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
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Contestant
No. 08:
Participant
autumn winds
follow
a path to the stars
night of dreams
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Autumn Kigo: "autumn
wind" Lightness, simple beauty (karumi): Astronomy, Season,
Life: Irish Haiku Society Kigo list and World Kigo Data
Base on-line:
http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikuguidelines.htm;
http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.ie/2010_08_01_archive.html
drifting
on a thread of cloud
full moon
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Autumn Kigo: "full
moon" Lightness, simple beauty (karumi) and Drifting mood (nioi):
Astronomy: Irish Haiku Society Kigo list and World Kigo
Data Base on-line:
http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikuguidelines.htm;
http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.ie/2010_08_01_archive.html
after the
rain
a troop of mushrooms
surround the tree
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Autumn Kigo:
"mushrooms" Unexpectedness (atarashimi): Plants, climate,
observances: Irish Haiku Society Kigo list and World Kigo Data
Base on-line:
http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikuguidelines.htm;
http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.ie/2010_08_01_archive.html
apple harvest
recalling the colour
of his eyes
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Autumn Kigo:
"harvest" Unexpectedness (atarashimi) Plants, observances:
Irish Haiku Society Kigo list and World Kigo Data Base on-line:
http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikuguidelines.htm;
http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.ie/2010_08_01_archive.html
washing day
folding golden sunshine
into my sheets
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Autumn Kigo:
"golden" Lightness, simple beauty (karumi) Elegance, refinement
(fuga): Observances, climate, season: Irish Haiku Society Kigo
list and World Kigo Data Base on-line:
http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikuguidelines.htm;
http://wkdkigodatabase03.blogspot.ie/2010_08_01_archive.html
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Contestant No. 09: Participant
autumn wind
haunting the chimney—
soot fall
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Autumn Kigo: "autumn
wind (aki kaze, all autumn)": 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#AUTUMN
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Contestant
No. 11: Participant
such tall
oak—
unintentionally
I crushed an acorn
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Autumn Kigo: acorn:
Plants: Haiku World, An
International Poetry Almanac by William J. Higginson, p.
221.
remembering
dad—
this time of year his pockets
were full of hazel nuts
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Autumn Kigo: nuts
and seeds: Plants: Haiku World, An International
Poetry Almanac by William J. Higginson, p. 221.
under the
trellis—
first touch of pink
on green grapes
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Autumn Kigo: grapes: Plants: Haiku World, An
International Poetry Almanac by William J. Higginson, p.
221.
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Contestant
No. 12: Participant
I end
that fight between my kids ...
remaining heat
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Autumn kigo:
remaining heat (zansho, early autumn): 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#AUTUMN
rock concert
a soul jumps out of its body
remaining heat
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Autumn kigo:
remaining heat (zansho, early autumn): 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#AUTUMN
her hands
move
between teaglass and pot
leaf month
~
Autumn kigo: leaf
month, hazuki 葉月 (はづき) . (the 8th month in the Asian lunar
calendar, now September); World Kigo Database by
Dr. Gabi Greve
http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/01/autumn-leaves-momiji.html
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Contestant
No. 13: Participant
willow leaves
fall
a whisper of your voice
in this bright space
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Autumn Kigo: willow
leaves fall (yanagi chiru, mid autumn; Plants in The Five
Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words -- Selected by
Kenkichi Yamamoto Translated by Kris Young Kondo and William J.
Higginson" which I found online:
http://haikai.2hweb.net/renku/500ESWd.html#AUTUMN
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Contestant
No. 15: Participant
autumn's
voice
in the golden afternoon
—the
empty swing set
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Autumn kigo:
"autumn's voice (aki no koe, all autumn). That is, the sounds of
autumn: wind in dry leaves, insects, etc.," "Autumn- the
heavens" category from The Five Hundred Essential Japanese
Season Words selected by Kenkichi Yamamoto, translated
by Kris Young Kondo and William J. Higginson, edited for Renku
Home by William J. Higginson:
http://www.2hweb.net/haikai/renku/500ESWd.html#AUTUMN
autumn wind—
I have a sudden urge
to buy school supplies
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Autumn kigo: "autumn
wind," "Autumn: sky and elements" category from The Yukei
Teikei Haiku Season Word List:
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
call of geese
over my parents' house
—the
past, out of reach
~
Autumn kigo:
"migrating geese/cranes/storks," "Autumn animals" category from
The Yukei Teikei Haiku Season Word List:
http://youngleaves.org/season-word-list/
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