
Kiyoshi Fukuzawa accepted his fate in Tokyo. Tony Williams sharpened an ax in Glasgow, Scotland. Sophia Conway deadheaded her garden on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Having suffered through wildfires and heat waves in Canada, summer flowers have called it a day. Tzetzka Ilieva passed a long, hot summer in Marietta, Georgia. In response to a prompt given in a previous Asahi Haikuist Network column, he offered two lines to form a traditional linked verse (haikai no renga) pattern, noting “it’s not every day a poet gets to link with a hokku of Basho’s.” Suzuki wrote three lines when he resurfaced at Osaka-Umeda Station after riding underground on the Midosuji Line. Trying to escape from an urban heat island, Marshall Hryciuk ducked into a soothing underground train tunnel. Maria Cezza’s sentimentality was shaded with dark thoughts in Maglie, a town located at the heel of boot-shaped Italy. Teiichi Suzuki visited Osaka Tennoji Zoo. Instead, he stared at a tourist wearing a stylish pair of dark glasses who was looking up to the zenith. While on a tour of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Ashoka Weerakkody’s group approached so close to a tall skyscraper it was difficult to see its entirety. Satoru Kanematsu said he hopes to vacation on the island of Guam one more time. Jerome Berglund reconciled in Minneapolis, Minnesota.įrancoise Maurice wore lightweight cotton cloth to celebrate her wedding anniversary in Draguignan, France: A muslin dress fluttering in the wind - the song of the cicadas Suraj Nanu may have been wearing a billowing silk saree by the Arabian Sea near Kerala, India.

an Aegean island with white summer houses Writing from Sofia, Bulgaria, Tsanka Shishkova dreamed of relaxing in Santorini, Greece: sand lily. Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, poetry and theatre, was often depicted in literature and art as being wreathed in ivy. Amoolya Kamalnath spotted a climber in the jungles of Nagarahole in Karnataka, India.Īn elegant climbing vine serving as a backdrop in her garden, Liz Gibbs lay back in Calgary, Alberta, and likely listened to a recording of the Canadian soprano Teresa Stratas.
#ARIZONA OCEAN WAVES SUNGLASSES FULL#
Morning glories, hibiscus and the rose of Sharon (a favorite of Matsuo Basho’s horse) are now in full bloom on their soaring stems.

Kiyoshi Fukuzawa wondered who delivered a bunch of sweet-smelling, pretty purple flowers. Vladislav Hristov kept driving down the road in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Ginting’s double entendre implied he’d bite in Medan, North Sumatra.Įta Grubesic observed an inevitable scene take place in Bukovac, Serbia. Sheila Weaver and a friend watched as some of her garden flowers “went down the hatch” in Gibsons, British Columbia.

Writing from Victoria, Texas, Randall Herman heard the approach of a graceful spotted deer native to Japan. Earlier this summer, Jennifer Gurney shared a scene from her everyday life in Broomfield, Colorado. Carl Brennan (North Syracuse, New York) Whinnying… in the palm of a girl sugar cube
