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
Your fusion-ku is evocative, and your third haiku makes it easy to imagine the squirrel in the second.
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Thanks so much, Ken!
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