Haiku and Happiness (02) ..... ARCHIVES

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2008-12-31T23:11:00.000-08:00

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Gabi Greve, January 2007

haiku

2008-07-25T22:13:00.000-07:00

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haiku ...
my path is always
NEW

Haiku Doo, my Way of Haiku 俳句道

Road (michi) . Japan

Haiku Day (haiku no hi) August 19 Japan.
Including haiku about "haiku" and "kigo"

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Miyazawa Kenji

2008-07-23T23:59:00.000-07:00

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暑さにも負けず遍路の道長き

atsusa ni mo
makezu henro no
michi nagaki

not even yielding
to the great heat ...
pilgrim on the road

Today I visited a temple in Yamaguchi ... online of course ...

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My daily duty walk along our rural memorial pilgrimage of Shikoku was really HOT, 36 degrees in the shadow ... atsusa ni mo makezu ... kept ringing in my mind all the way ... :o)

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Miyazawa Kenji wrote this famous poem ...

ame ni mo makezu

ame ni mo makezu
kaze ni mo makezu
yuki ni mo natsu no atsusa ni mo makenu
jōbu na karada wo mochi
yoku wa naku
kesshite ikarazu
itsu mo shizuka ni waratte iru
ichi nichi ni genmai yon gō to
miso to sukoshi no yasai wo tabe
arayuru koto wo
jibun wo kanjō ni irezu ni
yoku mikiki shi wakari
soshite wasurezu
nohara no matsu no hayashi no kage no
chiisa na kayabuki no koya ni ite
higashi ni byōki no kodomo areba
itte kanbyō shite yari
nishi ni tsukareta haha areba
itte sono ine no taba wo oi
minami ni shinisō na hito areba
itte kowagaranakute mo ii to ii
kita ni kenka ya soshō ga areba
tsumaranai kara yamero to ii
hidori no toki wa namida wo nagashi
samusa no natsu wa oro-oro aruki
minna ni deku-no-bō to yobare
homerare mo sezu
ku ni mo sarezu
sō iu mono ni
watashi wa naritai

not losing to the rain
not losing to the wind
not losing to the snow or to the heat of the summer
with a strong body
unfettered by desire
never losing temper
cultivating a quiet joy
every day four bowls of brown rice
miso and some vegetables to eat
in everything
count yourself last and put others before you
watching and listening, and understanding
and never forgetting
in the shade of the woods of the pines of the fields
being in a little thatched hut
if there is a sick child to the east
going and nursing over them
if there is a tired mother to the west
going and shouldering her sheaf of rice
if there is someone near death to the south
going and saying there's no need to be afraid
if there is a quarrel or a suit to the north
telling them to leave off with such waste
when there's drought, shedding tears of sympathy
when the summer's cold, walk in concern and empathy
called a blockhead by everyone
without being praised
without being blamed
such a person
I want to become

©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !

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Bending neither to the rain
Nor to the wind
Nor to snow nor to summer heat,
Firm in body, yet
Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite,
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse, 1964

Neither rain
nor wind
nor snow nor summer’s heat
will affect his robust body. . . .
Makoto Ueda,
Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature, 1982

Undaunted by the rain,
Undaunted by the wind,
Undaunted by the snow or the summer heat,
With a strong body
Donald Keene,
Dawn to the West, 1984

Strong in the rain
Strong in the wind
Strong against the summer heat and snow
He is healthy and robust
Roger Pulvers,
Kenji Miyazawa: Poems, 1997

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Kenji Miyazawa 宮沢賢治, Miyazawa Kenji

27 August 1896 - 21 September 1933,
Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan
was a poet and author of children's literature in early Shōwa period Japan. He was also known as a devout Buddhist, vegetarian and social activist.

Miyazawa was born in what is now Hanamaki city, Iwate Prefecture as the eldest son of a wealthy pawnbroker. From an early age, he was disturbed by what he perceived to be the social inequity between his well-to-do family, who lived by lending money to the impoverished farmers in the area. In 1918, he graduated from Morioka Agriculture and Forestry College. He was a bright student, so his academic advisor wanted him as an assistant professor. However, differences with his father over religion (he converted to the more activist Nichiren sect), and his repugnance for the family pawnshop business (he yielded his inheritance to his younger brother), created much unhappiness in his early life, and in 1921, he departed Hanamaki for Tokyo.

In Tokyo, while staying with a friend, he was introduced to the works of poet Sakutarō Hagiwara, and was encouraged to start writing. After eight months in Tokyo, during which time he began to write children's stories, he returned to Hanamaki due to the illness and subsequent death of his younger sister.

He found employment as a teacher in agricultural science at Hanamaki Agricultural High School (花巻農学校). Saving his meagre salary, he was able to finance the publication of his first collection of children's stories and fairy tales (Chūmon no Ōi Ryōriten - 注文の多い料理店 - The Restaurant of Many Orders) and a portion of a collection of free-verse poems (Haru to Shura - 春と修羅 - Spring and Asura) in 1924. Although neither work was a commercial success, his writings came to the attention of poets Kotaro Takamura and Shimpei Kusano, who admired his writing greatly and introduced it to the literary world.

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Miyazawa's works were influenced by contemporary trends of romanticism and the proletarian literature movement, but above all were influenced by his devotion to the Lotus Sutra in particular.
Miyazawa struggled with pleurisy for many years, and was often incapacitated for months at a time. He died in 1933 of pneumonia.

It may also be noted that Miyazawa had at least a passing interest in Esperanto. He loved his native province, and Ihatov (or Ihatovo), the name of the fictional location that appeared in his works, was constructed from the name Iwate (Ihate in the older spelling) in a manner similar to Esperanto.
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Gingatetsudō no Yoru
Night on the Galactic Railroad

1996 marked the 100th anniversary year of the birth of Kenji Miyazawa.

Miyazawa's mix of East and West begins with the names of the two young characters of the story: Jovanni (Giovanni) and Kanpanera (Campanella). The story takes place during the imaginary "Centaurus" Festival, a time when lanterns are lit to show deceased ancestors the way home. This imaginary festival occurs in August, and in the story, Miyazawa images children running and scampering, yelling that Centaurus is "dropping dew" [no doubt, a somewhat misplaced reference to the Perseids].

The Milky Way Train: Celebrating Kenji Miyazawa
By: Steve Renshaw and Saori Ihara, 1999

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Miyazawa Kenji wrote a famous book about a bear hunter

なめとこ山の熊 Nametoko yama no kuma
The bears of Nametoko Mountain

It's interesting, that business of the bears on Mt. Nametoko. Nametoko is a large mountain, and the Fuchizawa River starts somewhere inside it. On most days of the year, the mountain breathes in and breathes out cold mists and clouds. The peaks all around it, too, are like blackish green slugs or bald sea goblins..........

Read more here:
WKD : Bears as Kigo

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I wrote the above haiku whilst researching for this

Shikoku Fudo Pilgrimage

Shikoku Henro Pilgrimage to 88 Temples

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Namib Desert Beetle

2008-07-20T18:21:00.000-07:00

　　　　

morning dew ...
even the desert
comes alive

Photo : Moongateclimber

There are some deserts close to the oceans where they get humidity almost every early morning, when the moisture from the sea is blown toward the land. Animals and plants have special abilities to get the dew from this phenomenon to survive during the day. I remember one beetle standing upside down, wings spread, to catch the dew and lead it into its tiny mouth ...

Mostly in South America, if memory serves right. And some in the sourthern parts of Africa.
Here is a photo from the Namib desert beetle.

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The Namib Desert beetle dwells in one of the most arid areas with only one and half inch (40 mm) of rain per year, and has developed a unique technique to survive by obtaining water from early morning fogs. It drinks by the means of its own bumpy back surface, which provides for accumulation of water droplets of fifteen to twenty micrometers in diameter.
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Desert, sand desert WKD

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barbeque sleepers

2008-07-19T01:49:00.001-07:00

　　　　

summer heat -
the cats sleep
on the barbeque

O-Tsu with the Badger Tanuki ,
her drinking companion

siesta time -sharing a sipwith her best friend

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Cats in Paradise ..
O-Tsu and Haiku-Kun お津と俳句くん

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lavender

2008-07-18T21:05:00.000-07:00

　　　　

deep in lavender ...
the color of her eyes
in my memory

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THANK YOU, Allison !

THANK YOU, Geoff !

source : 　AHA

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very early morning

2008-07-18T14:53:00.000-07:00

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cicadas, frogs 'n crows ...
the sounds of my valley
above the clouds

The rainy season is over, but still the moisture of the nearby lake producing a "Sea of Clouds" in the early morning hours.

The scene of life below my window is breathtaking!

The photo is one of the evening delights.

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first cicada

2008-07-18T01:04:00.001-07:00

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tsuyu akete semi no koe no tani to naru
梅雨明けて　蝉の声の　谷となる

rainy season is over ...
my valley is swamped with
cicada shrills

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new eyes

2008-07-17T22:13:00.000-07:00

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The real voyage of discovery
consists not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

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How very true about the voyage of a haiku poet !

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Tantra

2008-07-17T01:57:00.000-07:00

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Human mind naturally inclines to obtain what it does not have, seek knowledge of things ‘not known’. This mind disapproves Tantra for the Tantra takes off with the real, instinctive, inborn, inherent in nature, that is, ‘what is’, or ‘that which is the best known’ – the body, nature, desires or whatever.

... the Tantra accepts all actions as they are, transmuting them into inner awareness, and further into a creative evolution, all desires, into the vehicle of transcendence, and all energies, into the ultimate means of liberation.

,,, It identifies the ‘Being’ in the Being itself, not in its negation or non-acceptance, but rather in its fuller acceptance.

There is a great article at EXOTIC INDIA
http://www.exoticindia.com/article/tantric/

Somehow I feel it relates to haiku too ...
just accepting ... what is now ... and state it in simple words

tantra ...
another word that leads me
to haiku

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A friend wrote:

The 'here and now' is actually the most difficult to observe because it requires concentration and acceptance. It's hard not to put layers of meaning on what actually is; we always want it to mean something else, so we never see the world as it is supposed to be seen. Much has been written about this very engrossing theme.

I'm thinking of something I read recently on 'shasei', and how it curbs active participation in poetry forums. Somehow, I think your topic on tantra touches on that as well. There is actually some participation going on, but not where one might usually expect it. Looking at the 'here and now' is, I think, a discipline in itself, an alternative to the habit of running away or overloading
a subject with meaning.

This will keep me thinking through the rest of the evening, and long after I go to bed.
Thanks for posting it here, Gabi.
WHCworkshop, July 2008

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early morning

2008-07-14T18:25:00.000-07:00

　　

akeyasushi 明易し

dawn comes early -
this cool breeze
on my cheeks

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The nights are rather muggy these days, with temperatures not really getting much lower. The rainy season is hovering around with humidity and morning mist.

But this morning was different !

More about this kigo :
. . . Long day, short day, long night, short night

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monsterlins

2008-07-12T21:51:00.000-07:00

　　　　

short night ... mijika yo
at the stroke of twelve
the monsters dance

rainy afternoon -
catching monsters and
a few ghosts

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Read the full stories HERE

Fudo stabbing a Monster Cat (bakeneko)

and

More Gongen caught this afternoon !

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healthy food

2008-07-12T18:01:00.000-07:00

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healthy food
on our dinner table ...
life indeed

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It's been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish... all before making a human. He made and provided what we'd need before we were born. These are best and more powerful when eaten raw. We're such slow
learners...

God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!

God's Pharmacy! Amazing!

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food. ( Tomatoes are best when cooked that is why the are categorized as lipophilic- their nutrional
value increases when cooked. Doc)

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs.
Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

source : 　the WWW

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bedsheet

2008-07-09T00:43:00.000-07:00

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muggy night ...
the coolness of
new bedsheets

The Japanese have developed some kind of new material and weaving technique to make sheets keep you cool in summer ...

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Tanabata

2008-07-07T17:34:00.000-07:00

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Tanabata ya
another opportunity
missed

Star Festival (Tanabata, Japan) July 7

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summer heat

2008-07-05T21:36:00.000-07:00

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summer heat ...
my cat hides under
the silk carpet

Haiku kun sneaked into my cooled room and peeks out from under the fringes of the carpet ... fully knowing he is not supposed to be there ...

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seeds

2008-07-02T00:06:00.000-07:00

　　　　

haiku -
picking the seeds
from real life

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last day of june

2008-06-30T21:34:00.000-07:00

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last day of June ...
the broad smile
of my healthy husband

. . . . Summer Purification Ceremonies in Japan
June 30

last night of june ...
wild boars trample
through the grove

they are back! in the bamboo grove!

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almost missed

2008-06-29T05:01:00.000-07:00

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looking for fireflies ...
I almost miss
the dramatic night sky

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A friend suggested to leave out the"dramatic" .

I am rather fond of adjectives lately ... grin...

this was not just any dark night sky, it was one with thunderclouds racing in many layers of gray like spotlights and would make a haiku in itself to discribe it.
I want to make sure, using the adjective, that it was a very special night sky and I did not realize it in the beginning because I was focussed looking below in my valley for the fireflies. Only when I looked up I saw what I was missing there ...

looking for fireflies ...
I almost miss
the night sky

that gives me a much more quiet evening which I experience most often, but not the drama of the other night.

Maybe another adjective would work ?
Then he suggested:

looking for fireflies
I almost miss
the thunderclouds

thanks so much for your help, B.

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dark night

2008-06-28T05:01:00.000-07:00

　　　　

dark night -
just one firefly
in the rain

we are expecting heavy rain this night ...

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rain again

2008-06-28T01:36:00.001-07:00

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tsuyu sanaka, in the middle of the rainy season

rainy season ...
dark coulds huddle
below light clouds

rainy season ...
the green of the forest
deepens

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Here are a couple to add, Gabi.

as if silence
were enough . . .
the monsoon!

a groaning in the
jungle, that dragon
made of water

robert d. wilson

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silent night

2008-06-25T05:07:00.000-07:00

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dark night ...
a firefly flies
over my roof

two days later

dark night ...
three fireflies brighten
my valley

again two days later

silent night ...
the delicate shimmer
of fireflies

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At first I was tempted to write ... a silent night
to make sure it was not THE Silent Night ... spelled mostly with capital S and N.

It is like a Christmas present to see these thousands of fireflies in the remote valley in complete silence, up and down, back and forth ... and we can enjoy it for about two, three weeks if there is no rain at night ..

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power of life

2008-06-25T01:15:00.000-07:00

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summer rain ...
some cut-off flowers
take root again

Hydrangea branches in the compost have sprouted ... we just planted six new ones in the garden !

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inaka gurashi

2008-06-24T05:06:00.000-07:00

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毎日の
風景の中に
毎日の
私がある

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simple life

2008-06-21T17:45:00.000-07:00

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doing the dishes ...
outside
two tender butterflies

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The TENDER ... well, we have so many different types of butterflies around, and these "janome" are always as a pair, on their honeymoon trip, so it seems, and really tender, considering the bigger and tougher ones that can even escape the claws of my cats without much harm.

As for the form, I am experimenting with .. short long short ...

the OUTSIDE ... should bring you inside yourself, meditating whilst doing the dishes ...

Greetings from my zen kitchen!

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Butterfly (choo) KIGO

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