Written for:  Carpe Diem #1789 – The Winter Trees (Crossroads)

The task is to create a “fusion-ku” from the two given haiku and create a Troiku with it, so this episode is a “Crossroads” episode. Here are the two haiku to work with:

cutting into with the ax,
I was surprised at the scent.
the winter trees.

unfolding at the
hand of the glass polisher:
a camellia!

© Yosa Buson

Two wonderful haiku by one of the “big five” haiku poets.

fusion-ku:

camelia unfolding
amidst the surprising scent
of winter trees

troiku:

camelia unfolding
like a Japanese fan
flowing pink

amidst the surprising scent
of pine perfume
a climbing squirrel

of winter trees
there is a beauty between
sparse limbs

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