Showing posts with label spring rain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring rain. Show all posts

Friday, December 12, 2014

Peonies and Ants

Carpe Diem: Little Creatures #14 Spring Rain

Challenge: all new haiku in the classical way (5-7-5; cutting-word; season word; deeper meaning; inter-changeable first and third line) inspired on a haiku written by Matsuo Basho about a Hornet's nest

suzumebachino su kara yane doro darake no mizutamari wo kaishi te haru no ame wo shizuku

spring rain,
leaking through the roof,
dripping from the wasps' nest.

© Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)



long line of black ants
trespassing in my kitchen
peonies past prime