found again

Here's another "found" haiku. For some reason I have this book called "Christian Retirement" from 1849 - hence the old fashioned language - written by an English reverend (I guess) who must have been inspired by Ignatius de Loyola. He seems to have been a fire and brimstone kind of priest or just very zealous. My guess is that he tried to convert Roman Catholic monastic spirituality to be used in a C. of E. context.

found haiku

Pardon me - rengay (solo, uncollaborative & grumpy)

Pardon me                    

cherry blossoms …

(pardon me if i

don't swoon)

in the ant-hill

sudden outbursts of “sweet” & “lovely”

it's the season

i arm myself

with antihistamines

bend necks

convinced now of

our lemming nature

beneath a pink cloud

head full of screaming guitars

deep breathing

the rattle goes away

after coffee

a haibun

The heat comes on strong and unexpected. As it does every year. From seemingly out of nowhere swifts and swallows cruise beneath a blue blue sky as if nothing was wrong in the world. I wonder – because I'm hopelessly vain – if I am presented with yet another image of my thought-pattern but settle with the thought that they're only chasing insects.

here & there & up & down the lilac scent doesn't seem to mind me

Analyzing penguins ;-)

Jack Galmitz has kindly written an analysis of my bilingual haiku book “Penguins/Pingviner – 122 haiku”. I am very honored he chose to do that and grateful for him reading the poems in this way. As Jack himself is a well known haijin with excellent publications to prove his skills I am doubly honored.

                 Here is the full text

white sky - renray (solo & experimental)

white sky

the days of floating

on ethereal sounds begin

1st day of summer

I dream of endless (and clean) city scapes

music for airports

a scratching needle

breaks the illusion

a US made thesaurus

misinterprets

my intententenions

the still air

penetrated by swallows

amidst the dreaming

a physical need makes me

retur­n to clay

haiga

more haiga

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sunlight

beneath

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still

leafless

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sollys

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stadig

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