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Mayu Kanamori
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I post my haiku here.
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省みるプールサイドの植民地

Reflecting upon the poolside colony

*poolside is a summer #kigo

#haiku #俳句
June 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
恥じらいも 植田に映る 我儘も

Shyness, too,
reflected in the water-filled rice paddy -
and even selfishness

*water-filled rice paddy is a summer #kigo

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May 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
青蛙あなたの肩と寝付かぬ夜

Green frog
Your shoulders
on a night when sleep is slow to come

*blue green frogs are a summer #kigo
(although frogs on its own are a spring kigo)

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May 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
夕顔や夢路辿れど目覚め待つ

Evening glory
tracing the path of dreams yet waiting to awaken

*evening glory is a summer #kigo

#haiku #俳句 while waiting for my partner to wake up after surgery
May 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
今もある淡い震えと初夏の海

It’s still here
pale quiverings and early summer seas

#haiku #kigo #俳句
May 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
水張田に映る我が身も幻影も

my body and illusions too, reflected
in the water-drenched paddy field

* water-drenched paddy field is a spring #kigo

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May 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
黄水仙恋文詠んだあの時代

Yellow daffodils
that era
when we composed love letters

* yellow daffodils are a spring #kigo / note: daffodils on their own are a winter kigo

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May 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
微妙にも縁入れかわり春深し

Nuanced as it may seem
relationships shift
It’s deep into spring

*deep (into) spring is a spring #kigo

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April 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
家系史や派川流るる雪柳

Family histories
River branches and snow willows

*snow willow is a spring #kigo

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April 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
花吹雪返しきれないメール達

Blossom blizzards
emails too many to return

*blossom blizzards are a spring #kigo meaning falling cherry blossoms

#haiku #俳句
April 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
群泳のさかな学級花筏

Swimming together in fish school
flower raft

*flower raft is a spring #kigo
meaning fallen cherry blossom petals on the surface of a water body, drifting In current like a raft

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April 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
目が覚めて自分らしくとこぶし咲く

Waking up
saying, be yourself
the magnolia flowers

*magnolia - in this case kobushi or magnolia kobus - is a spring #kigo

#haiku #俳句
April 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Reposted by Mayu Kanamori
spring morning light shines
to illuminate the truth,
empty parking lot

#haiku #spring #morning #light
April 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
囀りやライアー響くヒーラーと

Bird chirps
and a healer with a lyre

*bird chirps is a spring #kigo

#haiku #俳句
April 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Reposted by Mayu Kanamori
Kitsune

fox dips one paw in
snow, then another, now she
has Winter mittens

#poetry #haiku
April 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
手放せぬアイデンティティを花に問う

Parts of my identity I won’t let go
asking the flowers

*flowers are a spring #kigo, often meaning cherry blossoms in haiku

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April 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
春泥やころがり汚れまみれたい

Spring mud
I want to roll around and be covered in soil

*spring mud is a spring #kigo

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April 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
夜桜や葬儀知らする天の雨

Night cherry blossoms
notice of funeral and rain from heaven

*night cherry blossoms are a spring #kigo

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April 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Amazonやまた届かずは春の水

Amazon
Undelivered, once again
Waters of spring

*waters of spring is a spring #kigo

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April 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
芽立時出世稲荷に伺ひて

Asking the Inari diety of success
about timing of the budding

*time of budding is a spring #kigo
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April 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
巣立ち鳥山はいまでも待っている

Fledged birds
Mountain awaits even now

*fledged birds is a spring #kigo

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April 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
実際も理想も消える夢見草

Reality and even ideals too disappear
Dreaming grass

*dreaming grass (yume mi kusa) is another word for cherry blossoms 🌸 .
It is a spring #kigo

#俳句 #haiku
April 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM