remembering Martha Magenta

 tall grass

the scythestone tunes in

with a cicada

--Henryk Czempiel; Poland

A haiku written in three lines staying within the 17 syllable count. The opening scene is tall grasses. A phrase followed by a fragment of 2 lines.

 Tall grasses  bring us to a place of growth and thriving and gives us also a sense of hiding. 

Next he gives us sounds, juxtaposing the manmade and the natural -  scythestone and cicada

One of sharpening a tool  for cutting down grasses,  the other a mating fertility and continuation song.

Cicadas are peculiar for their long rest in the earth as long as seventeen years, then to emerge as nymphs which climb trees and shed their exoskeletons

This kukai was a remembrance  for the passing of haiku poet who left us in January

Henryk's haiku by its sounds and songs gives us the sense of wailing, the human  effort of grieving.  Yet at the same time, affords us the hope in the nature of the cicada to rise to a new life.

Well Done Henryk

--gillena cox; Founder/coordinator-Caribbean Kigo Kukai

The Kukai was a celebration of haiku poet Martha Magenta who died in January 2020. a distillation from her haiku was the theme for this kukai

This is her last haiku submitted  to Caribbean Kigo Kukai

tiny cobbled streets

in silent shadows

a cicada

--Martha Magenta

SEE RESULTS HERE