Guy Fawkes

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Guy Fawkes

***** Location: England
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Humanity

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Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.



Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic. Fawkes later converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the Eighty Years' War on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch reformers. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England but was unsuccessful. He later met Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to England.

On 5 November 1605 Londoners were encouraged to celebrate the King's escape from assassination by lighting bonfires, "always provided that 'this testemonye of joy be carefull done without any danger or disorder'". An Act of Parliament designated each 5 November as a day of thanksgiving for "the joyful day of deliverance", and remained in force until 1859. Although he was only one of 13 conspirators, Fawkes is today the individual most associated with the failed Plot.

In Britain, 5 November has variously been called Guy Fawkes Night, Guy Fawkes Day, Plot Night and Bonfire Night; the latter can be traced directly back to the original celebration of 5 November 1605. Bonfires were accompanied by fireworks from the 1650s onwards, and it became the custom to burn an effigy (usually the pope) after 1673, when the heir presumptive, James, Duke of York, made his conversion to Catholicism public.
Effigies of other notable figures who have become targets for the public's ire, such as Paul Kruger and Margaret Thatcher, have also found their way onto the bonfires, although most modern effigies are of Fawkes. The "guy" is normally created by children, from old clothes, newspapers, and a mask.During the 19th century, "guy" came to mean an oddly dressed person, but in American English it lost any pejorative connotation, and was used to refer to any male person.
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Guy Fawkes Day -
during the firework display
his hand tightens in mine

Angelee Deodhar

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Henry Prince of Wales

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Prince Henry of Wales, Prince Harry

Prince Henry of Wales
(Henry Charles Albert David, born 15 September 1984),
commonly known as
Prince Harry, is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales, and fourth grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.



Therefore, he stands third in the line of succession to the thrones of sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms, and to the governorship of the Church of England, preceded by his father and elder brother, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.
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Haiku and Senryu

Harry's Naked Army!
counting summer stars
through my window

Chen-ou Liu, Canada


Note:
my haiku was written in response to the following headline:

Harry's naked Army!


Facebook group supporting prince's nude antics now has 32,000 fans

He might be in trouble with the Palace over nude photographs taken in Las Vegas, but at least he's got a few thousand (naked) shoulders to cry on.

source : www.dailymail.co.uk




my haiku written in response to
"Prince Harry named man of the year"

a cockroach crawling
across Dirty Harry
behind the girls ... more girls

Chen-ou Liu, Canada, October 5, 2012


Under the title, Tatler, the magazine does the alliteration three-step,
"selling the prince's sizzle:
The Girls, The Gangs, The Gaffes."





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a naked prince
stirrs a lot of emotions -
senryu alive

Read a heated debate here
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Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens

(7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)



Charles John Huffam Dickens

English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters.

Many of his writings were originally published serially, in monthly instalments, a format of publication which Dickens himself helped popularise. Unlike other authors who completed novels before serialisation, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialised. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next instalment.The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.

Dickens's work has been highly praised for its realism, comedy, mastery of prose, unique personalities and concern for social reform, by writers such as Leo Tolstoy, George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton; though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, have criticised it for melodrama, sentimentality and implausibility.

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google logo in February 7, 2012

チャールズ・ディケンズ


Reference

. Charles Dickens .


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Prince Charles leads tributes
on Charles Dickens' 200th birthday

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Duchess of Cornwall and many of the writer's descendants joined Prince Charles for a service at Westminster Abbey, with the heir to the throne describing the Oliver Twist creator as 'one of the greatest writers of the English language'.

Actor Ralph Fiennes, who is set to star in an adaptation of Great Expectations, read an extract from classic novel Bleak House before the congregation laid a wreath at Poets' Corner where Dickens was buried in 1870.
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Haiku and Senryu


Charles Dickens
in a bookstore window...
homeless youth's gaze

Chen-ou Liu
Canada


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Charles Dickens' birthday
few have great expectations
in these hard times

Armando H. Corbelle (Catbird 55)


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Golowan Festival

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Golowan Festival

***** Location: England
***** Season: Mid-Summer
***** Category: Observance

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Golowan (sometimes also Goluan or Gol-Jowan)
is the Cornish language word for the Midsummer celebrations in Cornwall, UK: widespread prior to the late 19th century and most popular in the Penwith area and in particular Penzance and Newlyn. The celebrations were conducted
from the 23rd of June (St John's Eve)
to the 28th of June (St Peter's Eve)
each year, St Peter's Eve being the more popular in Cornish fishing communities.



The celebrations were centred around the lighting of bonfires and fireworks and the performance of associated rituals. The midsummer bonfire ceremonies (Tansys Golowan in Cornish) were revived at St Ives in 1929 by the Old Cornwall Society and since then spread to other societies across Cornwall, as far as Kit Hill near Callington. Since 1991 the Golowan festival in Penzance has revived many of these ancient customs and has grown to become a major arts and culture festival: its central event 'Mazey Day' now attracts tens of thousands of people to the Penzance area in late June.

1 The historic festival
1.1 Penzance
1.2 St Peter's Eve
1.3 St Just
2 Similar festivals
3 Modern Golowan celebrations
3.1 Penglaz the Penzance 'Obby 'Oss
3.2 Old Cornwall Society

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Midsummer’s Day is the church feast of St John The Baptist, an important day in Penzance’s calendar as St John is the town’s Patron Saint – the ancient name ‘Pen Sans’ meaning ‘Holy Head’ refers to him, and images of the head of St John can be spotted on buildings throughout Penzance.



source : www.golowan.org


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Japan

observance kigo for mid-summer

sei Yohanne sai 聖ヨハネ祭 (せいよはねさい)
Feast of Saint John
..... senja sei Yohanne sai 洗者聖ヨハネ祭（せんじゃせいよはねさい）
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
..... senja sei Yohanne tanjoobi 洗者聖ヨハネ誕生日（せんじゃせいよはねたんじょうび）
birthdy of Saint John, the Baptist

der Heilige Johannes der Täufer

. Christian Celebrations in Japanese Kigo .


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Blue Horses stampede
Through Penzance’s crowded streets
Festival time again



My blue horses
Leaving hoof prints of friendship
Cornwall to Japan

The main street of Penzance, Cornwall, during the "Mazey Day Parade" which is part of the annual Golowan Festival!
Lots of Schools and Associations build floats to push/carry through the streets. There are also marching bands and dancers in the parade.

Shared by Res John Burman
Joys of Japan, February 2012



Golowan Festival -
your blue horses
on my white sceen

Gabi Greve


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Galowan
a shoal of seahorses
flicker by

Susan Shand



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***** . Sanziana, Yellow Bedstraw (Galium verum) .
Midsummer Rituals in Romania



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English Seasonal Images

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English Seasonal Images:
An Almanac of Haiku Season Words Pertinent to England

by David Cobb

reviewed by Charles Trumbull

What follows is not really a review, for what I have in front of me is not really a book—yet. It is, however, an bellwether development for Western haiku. Cobb’s project not only makes an important contribution to haiku stud-ies but addresses some key issues of English-language haiku composition. His thoughtful attention to detail and delightful writing style are extras.

English Seasonal Images is an English saijiki—almanac—in the full sense of the word: it comprises a structured list of season words that have poetical associations as well as haiku that illustrate how these words are used (many so-called saijiki are really kiyose, or lists of season words without the sample haiku). Cobb’s many glosses of the terms are indispensible. The collection is organized traditionally, by season, but with a new wrinkle: instead of the Japanese fifth season, “New Year’s,” Cobb has “winter—post-Christmas” (listed first among the seasons) and “winter—pre-Christmas” (last).

Within seasons, the words are traditionally arrayed, by topic: “The season,” “The heavens,” “The earth,” “Human life,” “Observances,” “Animal,” “Vegetable,” and—another wrinkle—a new catchall category called “Mineral,” which grandly embraces “things” that are neither animal nor vegetable. The 14-page “Calendar of Topics” is followed by 76 pages of Almanac and Ex-amples. Clearly Cobb compiled the Calendar independently and probably before he populated the Almanac with examples.
In fact a large number of Cobb’s topics are as yet undocumented with haiku, which makes it clear that this is a work in progress. (Other English-language season-word collections typically fit the topics to the haiku at hand, a problematical practice.) Cobb’s haiku examples are all from poets living in England (only), who are identified by county of residence.

Cobb’s project also performs an important service by showing how season words can link contemporary haiku to English literary and cutural traditions. In some cases, it even seems that he is helping conserve endangered aspects of English lore. Two examples of Cobb’s explanations illustrate these points:

mist and fog [autumn; the season] Thanks to Keats’s Ode to Autumn (season of mists …) many will associate mist and fog with autumn, but it isn’t conclusively so unless something else in the context assists.… (63)

bowls, bowling green [summer; human life] Surely the epitome of leisure and taking one’s time and ease, as exemplified by the favourite English myth that Sir Francis Drake would not cut short his game of bowls to tackle the Armada. (50)

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Haiku Edited by David Cobb,
pub: The British Museum Press




This book is essentially a gift book. It has a short essay about haiku, then the bulk of the book is haiku and illustrations from the museum’s collection. Each haiku is given as calligraphy, a romaji version and an English version. The haiku in the book are arranged into the four seasons. There are also notes on the authors and suggestions for further reading and Internet links such as The British Haiku Society. (which is unfortunately an out of date link)

It’s nice little book to dip into. The poems are short enough to explore reading in Japanese and figuring out the kanji. Maybe you could even try writing haiku in Japanese. You might not produce great poetry but it’s an interesting thing to try.
source : www.shiawase.co.uk

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Michaelmas

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Michaelmas

***** Location: England, Europe
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Humanity

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Michaelmas, or the Feast of Michael and All Angels, is celebrated on the 29th of September every year. As it falls near the equinox, the day is associated with the beginning of autumn and the shortening of days; in England, it is one of the “quarter days”.

There are traditionally four “quarter days” in a year

Lady Day (25th March),
Midsummer (24th June),
Michaelmas (29th Spetember) and
Christmas (25th December).

They are spaced three months apart, on religious festivals, usually close to the solstices or equinoxes. They were the four dates on which servants were hired, rents due or leases begun. It used to be said that harvest had to be completed by Michaelmas, almost like the marking of the end of the productive season and the beginning of the new cycle of farming. It was the time at which new servants were hired or land was exchanged and debts were paid. This is how it came to be for Michaelmas to be the time for electing magistrates and also the beginning of legal and university terms.

Traditionally, in the British Isles, a well fattened goose, fed on the stubble from the fields after the harvest, is eaten to protect against financial need in the family for the next year; and as the saying goes:

“Eat a goose on Michaelmas Day,
Want not for money all the year”.

In Scotland,
St Michael’s Bannock, or Struan Micheil (a large scone-like cake) is also created.
As the Struan is created by the eldest daughter of the family, the following is said:

“Progeny and prosperity of family,
Mystery of Michael,
Protection of the Trinity”


an Irish proverb goes:

“On Michaelmas Day the devil puts his foot on blackberries”.


The Michaelmas Daisy
The Michaelmas Daisy, which flowers late in the growing season between late August and early October, provides colour and warmth to gardens at a time when the majority of flowers are coming to an end. As suggested by the saying below, the daisy is probably associated with this celebration because, as mentioned previously, St Michael is celebrated as a protector from darkness and evil, just as the daisy fights against the advancing gloom of Autumn and Winter.

“The Michaelmas Daisies, among dede weeds,
Bloom for St Michael's valorous deeds.
And seems the last of flowers that stood,
Till the feast of St. Simon and St. Jude.”

(The Feast of St. Simon and Jude is 28 October)

The act of giving a Michaelmas Daisy symbolises saying farewell, perhaps in the same way as Michaelmas Day is seen to say farewell to the productive year and welcome in the new cycle.

Read more HERE:
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Aster tradescanti



. shion 紫苑 (しおん) Michaelmas daisy
shioni しおに、oni no shikogusa 鬼の醜草（おにのしこぐさ）
Aster tataricus


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sei Mikaeru sai 聖ミカエル祭 (せいみかえるさい)
Feast of Saint Michael
sei Mikaeru no shujujitsu 仲秋 聖ミカエルの祝日
（せいみかえるのしゅくじつ）
September 29


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Michaelmas daisies
washing out with the tide
my daughter's footprint

Paul Conneally ‎
England

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Michaelmas
and the harvest moon ~
two halos

- Shared by Elaine Andre -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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plant kigo for all autumn


Aster (syn. Diplopappus Cass.)
is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The genus once contained nearly 600 species in Eurasia and North America, but after morphologic and molecular research on the genus during the 1990s, it was decided that the North American species are better treated in a series of other related genera. After this split there are roughly 180 species within the genus, all but one being confined to Eurasia.

The name Aster comes from the Ancient Greek word ἀστήρ (aster), meaning "star", referring to the shape of the flower head. Many species and a variety of hybrids and varieties are popular as garden plants because of their attractive and colourful flowers. Aster species are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species — see list of Lepidoptera that feed on Aster. Asters can grow in all hardiness zones.
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Callistephus
is a genus of flowering plants, in the Asteraceae (daisy family); the genus includes only one species, C. chinensis, the China Aster.

It is native to China, and is an annual plant, growing to 20-80 cm tall with branched stems. The leaves are alternate, 4-8 cm long, ovate, and coarsely toothed. The flowerheads are variable, with either all ray florets or an outer ring of ray florets surrounding central disc florets; the ray florets are white to purple, the disc florets, if present, usually yellow.

It is a popular ornamental plant in gardens, and numerous cultivars are available; the cultivars are grouped by size, with very dwarf (up to 20 cm), dwarf (20-40 cm), intermediate (40-60 cm) and tall (60-80 cm). In Japan, the species is very important in the floriculture industry for cut flowers.
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England and Ireland - Place Names

***** Location: England and Ireland
***** Season: Topics
***** Category: Earth

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Place names from England and Ireland

Explanations about these places are found in the WIKIPEDIA. !


Blasket Island - An Blascaod Mór

. Cardiff - Wales .
Merchant Seafarers War Memorial


Dalkey/Dalkey Sound
http://haikuireland.org/gkjuly04.html


- - - 　London

Iveagh Gardens, Dublin
http://haikuireland.org/gkjanuary05.html

Killiney/Killiney Hill/Killiney Bay
http://haikuireland.org/gkapril05.html

Liffey, River Liffey
http://haikuireland.org/gkoctober04.html

Moore Street Market (Dublin)
Skerries
St Patrick's Island
http://haikuireland.org/Haiku%20Ireland%202006.pdf

Sliabh Buí (Slieveboy)
http://haikuireland.org/gkapril05.html



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Haiky by Gabriel Rosenstock
http://lishanu.com/01/haiku/rosenstock_gun.htm


Achill coast

Ashleem Bay

Burrishoole Abbey

Clare Island

Cong

Dodder, River Dodder
http://lishanu.com/01/haiku/rosenstock.htm

Downpatrick Head

Dúloch

Dún Briste – Broken Fort

Glencar waterfall

Lough Cullen’s shore

Mweelrea, Cnoc Maol Réidh, "Bald Even Mountain"

Rossbarnagh

Salehard

Sheefrey Wood

Thallabawn


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Glendalough or Glendaloch
( Irish: Gleann Dá Loch, meaning "glen of two lakes")

is a glacial valley in County Wicklow, Ireland. It is renowned for its Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin, a hermit priest, and partly destroyed in 1398 by English troops.
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round tower
protecting God
from the marauders

- Shared by John Byrne -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013


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Sliabh Buí's gorse aglow —
who's not writing poetry
this morning?

　© Norman Darlington
April 2005



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May Day

***** Location: England, worldwide
***** Season: Early Summer
***** Category: Humanity

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Compiled by Susan Shand, England

The first day of May is Known as "May Day" in England.
The origins of this festival of spring emerge from the Celtic spring festival of Beltane. There are therefore many references to to new life, emergence, fertility; fresh greenery and flowers are used to decorate carts, doorways and of course, the Maypole. It coincides with the flowering of the Hawthorn, or May Blossom; which is a late flowering blossom and its emergence marks the full establishment of spring and the end of frost and snow. By the time the Hawthorn blooms there are many wildflowers in the hedgerows and most trees are bursting into new leaf.

such life!
with Beltane we celebrate
the flowering May


The Maypole is a tall pole with a cartwheel attached to the top (on the horizontal) to create a fixed or rotating anchor for (usually 12) very long bright ribbons. These are tied firmly to the rim of the wheel all around it in colour pairs. The pole is set up in some prominent place in the centre of the village and a corresponding wider circle drawn on the ground below with places marked, like the face of a clock. Dancers take a ribbon and stand on their mark. Local musicians play dance tunes and the dancers execute set pieces designed so that by dancing around the circle and each other, they wrap the pole in the bright ribbons - then they reverse the dance to unwrap it again. Sometimes elaborate three-dimensional shapes such as "the spider's web" are created. Some dances originate in the early Celtic symbolism and others reflect more the Georgian and Victorian eras when the may pole was a popular feature of most English rural villages and the custom was often continued by schools in more industrial areas in the ensuing years.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/mayday.htm


May Day
a rainbow of ribbons
wreaths the pole


There is often a chosen May Queen and sometimes also a King, paraded in style in a flower-bestrewn carriage, or a farm truck depending what is available. Morris dancing is also much to be seen. Some Morris dances evoke the Beltane awakenings of life and the scaring away of the dark days of winter and its associated demons. Other styles reflect the communal set piece dances of more formal times where young people enjoyed a rare opportunity to meet and to dance with their sweethearts. May Day is often the first public 'outing' of established Morris 'Sides' who use the winter months to practice familiar dances and to learn new ones.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/mayday/morrisdancing.html


with blackened faces
they beat away the winter
May Day Morris


The sharing of a feast in the open air (weather permitting) is also traditional. Although these days it is more likely to be a barbeque than a communal meal. Many rural villages have revived the May festival in recent years, having previously lost them to wider roads, roundabouts, housing development and the modernism of the 1960's.

Susan Shand, May 2009
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May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to several public holidays.

In rural regions of Germany, especially the Harz Mountains, Walpurgisnacht celebrations of Pagan origin are traditionally held on the night before May Day, including bonfires and the wrapping of maypoles, and young people use this opportunity to party, while the day itself is used by many families to get some fresh air. Motto: "Tanz in den Mai!" ("Dance into May!").
Erster Mai.

In Hawaii, May Day is also known as Lei Day, and is normally set aside as a day to celebrate island culture in general and native Hawaiian culture in particular.

Modern May Day ceremonies in the U.S. vary greatly from region to region and many unite both the holiday's "Green Root" (pagan) and "Red Root" (labor) traditions.
International Workers' Day

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May First, May Day, First of May メーデー (mee dii)

worker's festival, roodoo sai 労働祭（ろうどうさい）
..... roodoo setsu 労働節（ろうどうせつ）
"May Festival", gogatsu sai 五月祭（ごがつさい）
"May Day Song", meedii ka メーデー歌（めーでーか）
"May Day Flag", meedii ki メーデー旗（めーでーき）


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may day...
its lei day
in Hawaii

Shanna Baldwin, Hawaii

WKD ... month of MAY (gogatsu 五月 )


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Labor Day...
breakfast is more enticing
than the placards

Labor Day...
a bunch of workers
sits in circle

Labor Day...
is it the pen
or the street?

Willie Bongcaron, Philippines, May 2010

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May Day
a pair of glow worms
hand in hand

- Shared by Satdeep Gill -
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kigo for autumn


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Wimbledon Tennis Tournament

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Wimbledon Tennis Tournament

***** Location: England
***** Season: Summer
***** Category: Humanity

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The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon
, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely considered the most prestigious.It has been held at the All England Club in the London suburb of Wimbledon since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, and the only one still played on grass courts.

The tournament takes place over two weeks in late June and early July, culminating with the gentlemen's singles final, scheduled for the second Sunday. As of the 2008 tournament, five major events are contested, as well as four junior events and four invitational events.
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This is a tribute to the only Romanian writer I am genuinely a fan of, Ioan Chirila (1927-1999). He earned his living as a sports columnist and apparently wrote mostly about sports (which allowed him to travel, as well as to slip through the fingers of censorship in Communist times).

But, in his prose writing, sports is often just a pretext for writing about such topics as Rembrandt, multiculturalism,the Russian soul, the common roots of Europe, the Renaissance or whatever.

The image I turned into a haiku comes from his book, "Switching the Timezones", published in 1980;and the reason I did it, is because I feel he captured a true "haiku moment" there.

rainy Wimbledon
the smoke wrapping it, coloured
by the Ceylon tea

Cristian Mocanu, July 2006

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game, set, and match!
so begins the stampede for
strawberries and cream

Strawberries and cream are so much part of the Wimbledon event that an image of the food immediately evokes the tennis competition and thus the time of the year. In a typically odd English way, the dates of Wimbledon fortnight are set at "six weeks before the first Monday in August and last approximately two weeks"
http://www.beforeyoudie.co.uk/Wimbledon.htm

"Every year about 27,000 kilos of strawberries are eaten during the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, together with 7,000 litres of cream. The popularity of serving strawberries with cream is possibly as old as the event itself."
http://www.wimbledonvisitor.com/tennis.html

Susan Shand (Plymouth), May 2009
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Wimbledon ---
where tennis balls
bounce higher

- Shared by Fred Masarani -
Joys of Japan, 2012



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