haiku

dedicated to remora.....it was re-released only last week...

“Do you know what alchemy is in Japanese?”
“Aa-ru-ke mi? No…” she whipped out her electronic dictionary and handed it to me
For Alchemist the dictionary read: 錬金術師 I couldn’t read it. I just knew it was something about gold. “How do you say this?”
“Renkinjutsushi, ” she struggled to say. “Maybe…I never see that word.”
"What does it mean?”

[Warning: site is text-only NSFW]
What's more Japanese than haiku?
Perhaps one with an otaku twist.
Found the site last year (don't remember from where). It's a fun and unusual way of stress relief for me I think. Get your (creative) juices flowing and try your hand at writing one yourself.

this one's for remora..... The American poet Patricia Donegan (b. 1945) is quite well known in haiku circles, both for her own poems, and for her writings about haiku. Besides her own collections, she has issued one guide on creating haiku for children (or even interested adults).

The following link is to a slew of autumn-ish photographs which I have taken over the years in four different countries - England, Germany, US (Tennessee), and Japan. Most of the photos were taken in Japan. Along with it a have poems from Japanese, American, and British poets waxing poetically about Autumn as poets are wont to do.