Solo
Junicho: This Flaming June
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my headache
tries
to tell me it is night,
this flaming June
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a pint or
two for drowning
next door’s kittens
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summer/no
season - kigo: none, but seasonality may be inferred by traditional
proximity to the hokku (first verse) |
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Dylan Thomas
waxes lyrical,
oh drunken moon
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autumn,
moon - kigo: moon, in the absence of a seasonal modifier 'moon' is
always considered to be autumn |
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his pumpkin
grin
from Ponty to Pwllheli
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autumn
- kigo: pumpkin |
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Euro
summit
recognises Urdu -
it’s official!
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sub-atomic
life form
seeks Lineus
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call-for-love |
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of
all the bars
in all the blah-blah blah
blah blah-blah blah
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love |
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come ice,
come snow, come hail
their body heat
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winter,
love - kigo: ice/snow/hail |
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powdered
concrete
forms a mound
round Cleopatra’s Needle
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end-of-love |
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a trumpet
solo
flavouring his chips
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blackthorn
petals
twine the morning
sloe sloe quick quick sloe
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spring
- kigo: blackthorn petals |
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three little
girls
with ringlets in their hair
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spring/no
season - kigo: none, but seasonality may be inferred by notions of
childhood/maidenhood |
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Ponty, Pwllheli:
two small towns, in south and north Wales respectively
Urdu: a language
spoken by many British people of Asian extraction
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John Carley
Rossendale, England
June 2005
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