Tag: seasons

senryu – what season on Mars? = quelle saison sur Mars ?


senryu – what season on Mars? = quelle saison sur Mars ?

what season on Mars?
just out of Curiosity
do you dig it?

do you dig it 620

quelle saison sur Mars ?
juste par Curiosity 
tu le déterres ?

Richard Vallance
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haiku – all seasons… what season on Mars? = toutes les saisons … quelle saison sur Mars ?


haiku – all seasons... what season on Mars?  = toutes les saisons ... quelle saison sur Mars ?

Curiosity
alarmed... what’s the damn season?–
I don’t dig it

curiosity what season 620


Curiosity
alarmé ... c’est quelle saison ? –
ça creuse sa tête

Richard Vallance

We have reached 300 pins on our PINTEREST group, Canadian haiku canadiens, since September 2018


We have reached 300 pins on our PINTEREST group, Canadian haiku canadiens, since September 2018

Depuis septembre 2018 nous avons atteint 300 pins sur notre groupe PINTEREST, Canadian haiku canadiens.

Click here to visit = cliquer ici pour le visiter :

300 pins Canadian haiku canadiens


Yes, it is really true! So this means my friends and I have composed 300 haiku and senryu since September 2018.

Oui, c’est la vérité. Ça signifie alors que mes amis et moi, nous avons composé 300 haikus et senryus depuis septembre 2018.

5 more illustrations of the 4 major Japanese season kigo, fuyu = winter, haru = spring, natsu = summer and aki = autumn


5 more illustrations of the 4 major Japanese season kigo, fuyu = winter, haru = spring, natsu = summer and aki = autumn:


seasonsd

seasonsc

seasonsb

seasonsa

4 seasons in kanji

Why do I write so many haiku?


Why do I write so many haiku? 

Why do I write so many haiku

To put it in the simplest terms I can, because I am so deeply inspired by the astounding beauty of our country, Canada. Being Canadian, I am naturally always moved by the vastness of the natural world in Canada. But that is not all. That is why the vast majority of my haiku are, in a word, uniquely Canadian. Of course, I also write haiku about other places in the world, as well as senryu. I am prolific in haiku, simply because I love them, no matter who writes them, so long as they are beautifully composed. I also published a quarterly haiku journal, Canadian Zen Haiku canadiens, ISSN 1705-4508, from 2004-2010.

Canadian Zen Haiku quarterly

As it so happens, I have been a natural-born poet most of my adult life. I used to write hundreds of sonnets, and I even published a multi-lingual international sonnet anthology, The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes, which features some 200 sonneteers and poets from around the world.

So you see, poetry, and above all haiku, comes so naturally that it is second-nature to me.