From A Hundred Gourds

A sparrow, a dandelion and the mist...from last year's A Hundred Gourds, issue 2.4.

sipping stale coffee the same sparrow as yesterday

even before i could wish you were gone dandelion

loneliness-

each peak wrapped

in its own mist

 Santoka says:

if I sell my rags
and buy some sake
will there still be loneliness... 

Santoka

November 2012 Shiki kukai

Again a fourth place in both the kigo and free format sections of the Shiki kukai for the month of November with these two poems.


Kigo theme: mist

deep mist-

temple bells stirring

the nothingness

Free format theme: night sounds

leaf fall

she sighs

in her sleep

John Espen Vassbotn and Tom Painting were the winners of this month and their winning poems as well as all the other poems can be read here.