December Haiku Share
We’ve done summer rain, now it’s time to share a haiku, tanka, or haiga about winter rain, streetlights, reflections, pavement, dawn, rain in general, or winter in general.
streetlights reflected
in wet pavement
winter dawn
Mariposa #26, Spring/Summer 2012
If you missed the initial post, click here to read about the month long haiku challenge I am holding right here on my blog this December.
Prose Posies 
Would you consider one on winter?
Absolutely, Seánan. I tried to put in all combinations of prompts, but I see I missed one. Here in Portland, “winter” and “rain” are synonymous. 😉
There, I fixed the prompt, but always feel free to take it into any direction that is suggested to you, Seánan.
Is it arid the rest of the year?
Thanks!
not at all! it rains pretty regularly here from mid-October to July 5th– the rest of the time it is fairly dry. The only reason the rain bothers me so much this time of year is that it is combined with general grayness and early darkness (it is dark by 4:30 pm). But the good news is that in 3 days, the days will start getting longer again. Yay!
listening
for the silence
between raindrops
yesterday’s blunders
wash out to sea
GUSTS 15, spring/summer 2012
Love this, Jenny!
winter darkness
we run out
of subjects to change
Modern Haiku 43:3
another one of yours i remember reading 🙂
Polona, you simultaneously startle and honour me.
Thank you.
This reminds me of one I wrote, Seanan.
winter solstice
nothing left to talk about
outside the weather
AHG, June 2012
december’s dawn
drops of dew
between the mums
~isabelle loverro
winter drizzle . .
the sound of sunlight
in a mockingbird’s song
don’t we all need some sunlight, even if in the voice of another creature
lovely. I have soft spot for mockingbirds . . .
raindrops
fall on still water –
tiny ripples
these subtle longings
of my heart
A Hundred Gourds 1:2, March 2012
Beautiful, Lauren! Enjoying your work here. 🙂
to return
or not to return
—winter twilight
First publication credit: DailyHaiga 18 January 2010.
Haiga by Dorota Pyra couold be seen here:http://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives
Second: Dreams Wander On: Contemporary Poems of Death Awareness, edited by Robert Epstein, Published by Modern English Tanka Press, Baltimore, Maryland 2011.
Third: Haïga. Peindre en poésie, by Ion Codrescu, Published by A.F.H. Association francophone de haiku, Barjols, France 2012.
Haiga with haiku in French by Ion Codrescu.
French version:
revenir
ou ne pas revenir
– crepuscule d’hiver
(haiku translated into French by I. Codrescu)
Haiga could be seen here: http://haikuwordlech.blogspot.com/2012/01/ion-codrescu-haiga-peindre-en-poesie.html
Lovely in both tongues.
Thank you so much, Seánan.
love the open-endedness of this, Lech.
Margaret, I much appreaciate your comment.
relentless rain
fragments of lotus
fragments of me…
would i do it all again
love him recklessly
Pamela A. Babusci
A Thousand Reasons
Yes!
frost
turns to dew . . .
his handwritten note
beautiful . . .
hailstorm . . .
three red petals left
to scent this rose
Carribean Kigo Kukai, September 2012
lovely, K.
Thank you.
the church bell
has a strange sound to it
freezing rain
winter sky–
the white cat’s eyes
bluer
ciel d’hiver–
le blanc des yeux du chat
plus bleu
Alegria Imperial
Daily Haiku Selection, April 22, 2011
(Mainichi, Japan)
French translation by Serge Tome at tempslibres.com
loved this 1st time around . . . and still do.
Muchas gracias, mi hermana!
cold wind
the front and back
of my hand
the zen space — Spring 2012 Showcase
(it’s a haiga — http://thezenspace.wordpress.com/experience/spring-2012-showcase/ )
YES, to all! Loving each one.
warming my heart
on a winter night
a snowman collection
See Haiku Here, December 2011
See Kuniharu Shimizu’s artwork here – http://seehaikuhere.blogspot.com/2012/01/haiga-730-snowman-haiku-15.html
Oops! Correction -it was published in January 2012.
winter breaths
and many other things
I’d just as soon forget
Prune Juice Issue 8
Truth.
who will call me now
by my other name . . .
soft rain falling
NaHaiWriMo, February 2012
Wow!
oh . . . thank you, Kirsten.
Like Kirsten…wow!
mil gracias, hermana . . .
I love this a lot, Margaret.
It recalled me my own:
memorial board—
hearing her name
the girl leaves away
51th WHA Haiga Contest December 2007
Haiga abot the girle here:
http://haikuwordlech.blogspot.com/2010/06/dziewczynka-odchodzi.html
Thank you, Lech. Nice blending of haiku and image . . .
Thank you so much, Margaret.
Exquisite and poignant.
Thank you so much, Seanan.
thawing pine . . .
all it takes to say
I love you
pianissimo —
the fall of mountain pines
in your absence
stringing along the flute
to an ancient psalm
mountain wind
Both ‘ku were submitted to Origa’s XII Bilingual Calico Cat Haiku Contest: http://origa.livejournal.com/178912.html
black clouds
grumble with thunder –
red umbrellas
Haiku Scotland
Juliet
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
solstice
gray rain
pounds the streets