le prunier très cher/ the prized plum tree (haibun)

Credits: Japanese Plums

Retour sur la piste de Basho Encore” qui a écrit le haïku suivant peu après la mort soudaine de son ami, Yoshitada.

furu oto ya mimi mo su-naru ume no ame

un son tombant
aigrir mes oreilles
la pluie des prunes

© Basho (Clr traduit de la traduction anglaise par Jane Reichhold)

le prunier très cher

Mon beau-père est décédé mardi. Ce haïbun est écris dans le souvenir de monsieur Bernard. Le haïku de Matsuo Basho m’a rappelé de bon souvenirs de ce grand homme.

Je n’ai jamais vu un prunier avant celui qui était dans la cour de monsieur Bernard (grand-père de nos enfants) quand j’avais à peine seize ans et la fiancée de son fils. Je me souviens de l’arbre qui était grand et maigrichon ; nous avons ri et l’avons tous taquiné à combien d’années qu’il faudra pour enfin voir des fruits ;  mais nous avions tort. En quelques années, l’arbre a fleuri et a porté ses fruits.

Il était si fier de son prunier. Cela signifiait plus qu’un arbre pour lui. Ce fut sa première nouvelle maison dont qu’il et son épouse avaient réussi à gratter et économisez pour loger leurs trois enfants adolescents. Leur fils aîné avait déjà deux petits enfants. Maintenant, ils avaient la liberté d’une grande espace verte avec une petite clairière au fond de la cour. Ils avaient lutté pendant de nombreuses années et maintenant ils avaient humble jardin, quelques arbres et une maison pour appeler «le leur».  C’était une grande victoire.

douce éclat
whoosh sur les brins d’
herbe
première goutte de prune

© Tournesol ‘15

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“Back on the trail of Basho Encore” who wrote the following haiku shortly after the sudden death of his friend, Yoshitada.

furu oto ya mimi mo su-naru ume no ame
a falling sound

that sours my ears
plum rain © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)

 the prized plum tree

My father-in-law and the grandfather of our children, died on Tuesday. This haibun is in memory of monsieur Bernard. Basho’s haiku reminded me of this great man.

The first plum tree I ever saw was in his back yard when I was barely sixteen, engaged to his son. I remember how tall and scrawny the tree looked and we all chuckled and teased him at how many years it would take to see any fruit but we were wrong. In just a few years, the tree blossomed and bore fruit.

He was so proud of his plum tree. It meant more than a tree to him. This was his first new house his wife and he had managed to scrape and save to own and house their three adolescent children. Their eldest son had already two small children. Now they had the freedom of a huge backyard with a wooded area beyond the property. They had struggled for many years so a humble garden, a few trees and a home to call “theirs” was a huge victory.

soft thump
swish on blades of grass
first plum drop

© Tournesol ’15

Carpe Diem, on the trial with Basho Encore

 

Daydream-Take: one million and two (haibun)

© Clr `15

Where would she be without her daydreams? If it were not for reading and tapping on that keyboard from time to time, she  might go through most of her days living  in her head. Walking stirs such reveries! Driving or sitting on a bus or train opens doors to another world; watching the sun set or sitting in class to a boring lecture…lying in bed the daydreams simply roll on a neverending  reel.

 Reserved seating
dreams of castles in the air
eyelids screen

© Tournesol ’15

Carpe Diem Day Dreaming

killing for sport (tanka – haiku)

3 WW – Threaten Dead Hungry

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Spiders and frogs
threaten lives of flies buzzing
killing them dead
but only if hungry,
never killing for sport

killing for sport
cruel deeds of a species
such cruel human games

© Tournesol ’15

in gratitude (haiga)

summer bracken
the shape of the spots
on the resting fawn

wild rivers
the joy unfurls
in ferns
© Jane Reichhold

Photo credits: Taken from http://www.botanicgardens.org/our-gardens/york-street/plant-collections/tropical-plant-collection

Photo credits: Tropical Collection – Denver Botanic Gardens

gift of rain
 liberated leaves peacock
waving grace

© Tournesol`15

fragile beauty
through leaves of ferns
I see the sun

© Chèvrefeuille

torn ferns
I use their leaves like a fan
Ah! that coolness

© Chèvrefeuille

Sadness (troiku)

– Zwobel

(troiku)

alone by the tracks
train toots planned arrival
her dad never comes

alone by the tracks
despair hits her hard
left with not a care

train toots planned arrival
her long awaited father
cares not to show up

her dad never comes
broken promises fill her heart
grief her middle name.

© Tournesol ’15

Written for MindLoveMiserysMenagerie “Sadness”

briny beads (tan renga)

http://www.educationquizzes.com/library/Gardening/Ferns_and_Grasses/Ostrich-fern-C.jpg

When I saw this prompt and Jane Reichhold’s haiku referring to the shape of “wild rivers” and “ferns” I could not help but be right at my special spot by the river rapids and so I decided to add my thoughts in a Tan Renga. I hope that’s okay.

wild rivers
the joy unfurls
in ferns © Jane Reichhold

grief spills briny beads
white-water sweetens   © Tournesol ’15

echoes of summer (haiku)

© Clr '15
© Clr ’15 Chez Lanoue,  Bromont, Québec

 

 

floral carnival,
swell of the willow drapes
nature’s secret

summer reels
giggling youngsters play leap-frog
mountains’ faint echo

© Tournesol’15

Carpe Diem Summer Passing

HaikuHorizons Secret

Love thee (troiku)

I originally composed this troiku this morning with the thoughts of my walk through the thicket last week on my way to work. I had been mesmerized and filled with grace looking at the wild flowers and one sole tiny blue butterfly fluttering from one flower to the next.

A blogger, Brenda from Friendly Fairy Tales, suggested “Perhaps the butterfly was a messenger of love from an admirer. A reminder to love yourself and value even the steps that you take to get to work. The in-between time is the most magic and free. I used to love driving, it felt so free being in-between one place and another.”

However, when I got home tonight I took a little peak at Carpe Diem since I had not had time to look in the past three days and I noticed the Time Glass prompt, First Celebration and found my offering fitting for this prompt as well.  Serenidipty hits again.

mazu iwae ume o kokoro no fuyu-gomeri

first celebrate
the flowers in your heart
confined in winter

© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)

grateful
first cherry blossom
in the moonlight

© Chèvrefeuille

(troiku)

amid thicket
daisies stand at attention
sun beams in awe

amid thicket
birds tweet in salutation
blue butterfly flits

daisies stand at attention
buttercups wild yet humble
grass waves delight

sun beams in awe
butterfly flutters with glee
nature’s gift to thee

blue butterfly flits
silently communes with thee
love thee first, then all

© Tournesol ’15

butterflies and buttercups (haiga)

queen bee quenches her thirst

chasing butterflies

chasing butterflies
daisies and buttercups trip
searching for nectar

pebble in my shoe
queen bee hunts sweet nectar
wilted petals weep
whipped by wind and rain
casualties of nature

© Tournseol’15

Carpe Diem SpecialRallentanda’s third “magnificent day”

magnificent day
bees buzz about the garden
by lapis blue sea

© Rallentanda

never forgotten (haiga)

grasslands

Through grasslands
recalls her favoured green
never forgotten

 never forgotten
blessing that soul departed
crosses herself.

© Tournesol ’15

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