We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)

21.1.21

Beautiful Words (found haiku)

Beautiful Words 

(found haiku)


searching for fireflies

the first dream of the new year –

the moon freezes


plants are sprouting

under last year’s dried grass

or under snow


clouds 

predict good fortune –

green shadows


sunlight filtering

through green leaves –

buried fire




Found haiku written in response to Weekly Scribblings #53: Beautiful Words at Poets and Storytellers United – using, rearranging, recombining, and occasionally slightly altering (by additions or omissions) the phrases in Rommy's prompt:


For this week’s prompt, I’ve selected a few poetic names from Bruce Hamana Sosei’s book, 100 Beautiful Words in The Way of Tea. Pick the English version of one (or more if the mood hits you) to shape your words around.


Zuiun – clouds that predict good fortune

Shitamoe – plants sprouting under last year’s dried grass or under the snow

Hatsuyume – the first dream of the new year

Uzumibi – buried fire

Ryokuin – green shadows (sunlight filtering through green leaves)

Hotaru-gari – go searching for fireflies

Tsuki-koru – the moon freezes

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17 comments:

  1. rallentanda21 January 2021 at 16:29

    The way you have used all the words in haiku is very impressive...you're not just a pretty face Rosemary :)

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    1. Rosemary Nissen-Wade21 January 2021 at 16:37

      Thanks; not sure I am a pretty face at all, lol, so I'm doubly glad the haiku are impressive.

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  2. Jim22 January 2021 at 01:09

    Rosemary, your found poetry is looking great, I must go there again, soon.
    This one is full of hope for us tired of winter and for you guys entering spring. Those filtering clouds let us peep through to bettering times. We have them generally from nine to ten as the clouds coming in from the Gulf of Mexico, 75 miles away, dissolve into the atmosphere.
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    1. Rosemary Nissen-Wade22 January 2021 at 13:04

      Thanks, Jim. I intended it would read as spring-like and hopeful; glad I succeeded. Here in Australia we are actually deep in summer, albeit a fairly cool and wet one where I live – but here too we hope for a much improved new era in American politics (which affect the world).

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  3. Helen22 January 2021 at 04:21

    OH SO WONDERFUL ....pardon the caps, however I am shouting. I love writing and reading haiku ....

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    1. Rosemary Nissen-Wade22 January 2021 at 12:59

      I don't mind shouting when it takes the form of compliments! Thank you.

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  4. Rommy22 January 2021 at 06:44

    Ha! Quite clever, Rosemary!

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  5. Debi Swim22 January 2021 at 09:54

    I esp. like the last one, Rosemary. Beautiful Haikus all.

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  6. Susie Clevenger23 January 2021 at 06:52

    Each one is delightful, visual. Beautiful writing

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  7. Lisa23 January 2021 at 06:54

    That was amazing!

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  8. robkistner23 January 2021 at 08:37

    These are wonderful Rosemary.

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  9. purplepeninportland.com24 January 2021 at 13:13

    Each one stands alone beautifully, Rosemary.

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