Daily Haikai & Haiku
Haikai // Haiku 川 Hokku \\ Hiraku
|| Translations by Dick Whyte ||
俳諧 = haikai = "playful harmony"
俳句 = haiku = "playful verse"
Please play! Cap the hokku to make a tan'renga! Riff on the kigo! Reply in haiku, hiraku, tsukeku, wakiku, hanka, et al.
- #俳句 #haiku #poet:Baijaku #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
- #俳句 #haiku #poet:Roei #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
- #俳句 #haiku #poet:Tōgetsu #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
- #俳句 #haiku #poet:Gagō #kigo:summer #kigo:butterfly ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use "butterfly" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
- An old #haiku of mine from 2009; chasing its own shadow— a butterfly 🖤
- #俳句 #haiku #poet:Chiyo #school:Fukuda #era:1700s #kigo:summer #kigo:fireflies ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use "fireflies" and/or "river" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
- I've never written a "fireflies" #haiku, so here's one by my favourite English-language haikai poet @solarprof225.bsky.social (Laurence Stacey): fireflies— again i question my faith 🖤
- #俳句 #haiku #poet:Ransetsu #school:Shōmon #school:Setsumon #era:1600s #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn (1900) ❖ Please feel welcome to play: cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt! 🖤
- #俳句 #haiku #poet:Buson #school:Yahantei #era:1700s #kigo:summer #kigo:butterfly ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn (1904) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku form, or use "butterfly" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
- A butterfly #haiku from my latest book, 'Same Old Moon': without thought crossing the border . . . a butterfly 🦋
- #俳句 #haiku #poet:Ryōta #era:1700s #kigo:summer #kigo:firefly ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn (1900) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku form, or use "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
