Written for: Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #99 – Crossroads of Summer
Welcome at a new episode of our weekend meditation feature. This weekend I love to challnege you to create a Troiku with a haiku distilled from two given haiku … so this is a Crossroads episode. I have chosen two haiku by Jane Reichhold (1937-2016) from her online saijiki “A Dictionary of Haiku”, Summer section, subsection Plants.
The task is to create a fusion haiku from the given two haiku and create a Troiku with it (more on Troiku you can find above in the menu). Here are the two haiku to work with, both by Jane Reichhold:
buttercups
peeping through fog
opening to the sun
sunshine lights
on hibiscus leaves before their
own dark
© Jane Reichhold
My haiku:
sun lights buttercups
as veiled fog begins to lift
before darkness comes
Troiku:
sun lights buttercups
opening in a field
green backdrop
as veiled fog begins to lift
sunlight fills cups
golden faces appear
before darkness comes
a lime green meadow turns gold
buttercups lit by sun
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