07-20-2013, 05:24 AM
stars and meadow and fireflies and moon
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busy night
kigo (season word) in haiku above:
firefly -> mid summer
moon -> all autumn
Sure, you're supposed to have only one kigo. The bitch is that once I put a damn 'moon' in
my f'ing 'ku I can't have no fireflies!! And there are about 16,000 other things I can't
put in it. (Though most kigo lists stop at 500 to 2,000. The 'The Nihon Dai Saijiki (kigo list)
lists some 16,000 season words along with their emotional, social, religious, etc. etc. connotations.
For instance:
'soak to the bone' (a kigo for all of autumn) means felt to (or from) the bottom of the heart.
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions