Valentine's Day 2012

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Valentine's Day - 2012

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Spring, Dry Season in Tropics
***** Category: Observance

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. WKD : Valentine's Day - Main Entry .

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- Daruma Masamune - for Valentine's Day 達磨正宗
with shnaps-filled chocolates


Valentine's Day -
let's have a drink
before we start !





Valentine's Day -
I send you a sweet
postcard
Click to see it!


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Sendai's first Valentine's Day
since disasters about more than just love

Chocolates with positive messages have emerged as big sellers in Sendai for the first Valentine's Day since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
At the Fujisaki department store downtown, chocolate gifts made with locally produced sake or honey and carrying messages of gratitude are gaining in popularity.

"It is probably because consumers want to support products using food from disaster-hit areas," said a member of the store's sales promotion team.



Fujisaki offers different kinds of chocolate-related items using ingredients from Miyagi Prefecture to support tsunami-hit areas.
One product is made with six different types of sake brewed in the prefecture, while coffee beans roasted in the city of Ishinomaki and covered with chocolate are another popular treat. Chocolates in the shape of a honeycomb and made with honey produced in Sendai are also selling well.
This is the first time such products have been sold for Valentine's Day, the store said.

As people grew to value "kizuna" — a Japanese word for "bond" — between family and friends after the disaster, the store prepared candy sets with a message saying "Thank you" in five different languages, including Japanese and English, so that people can express their gratitude.

In a similar spirit, the Mitsukoshi department store in Sendai is donating part of its proceeds from chocolate products to disaster areas. One bears the label "Charity Box" and sells for ¥2,400, of which ¥1,000 will be donated through the Japanese Red Cross Society.

Kiyomi Hishinuma, 42, who bought chocolate at the store for her husband, spoke of the spirit behind many gifts this Valentine's Day, 11 months after the disasters.
"The person I counted on the most when the quake hit was my husband," she said.
"I bought more expensive chocolate than usual to show him my gratitude."
source : Japan Times


. Japan after the BIG earthquake March 11, 2011　.

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a whole WINDOWS
full of pink -
Valentine's Day






even the rain
shows shades of pink -
Valentine's Day



Valentine's Day -
should I get off
the beaten track ?
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Gabi Greve
2012

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quote
“It took us a long time to realize
that a purpose of human life,
no matter who is controlling it,
is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
Kurt Vonnegut.



Heart-shaped “Ema” — wooden plaques upon which you write your wishes/prayers.
Here at Kasuga Taisha Shrine (Nara, 2008) the ema are almost exclusively for wishes of love, for the Special Someone, to find that Special Someone, and the like.

MORE
source : letsjapan.wordpress.com


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Mikuji Jinja おみくじ神社 sweet mikuji chololates for Valentines


. Amulets and Talismans from Japan .　


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Barentain Daruma バレンタイン だるま




source :　yoshida-daruma.com


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source :　axcis nalf

The red Daruma sweets tast of milk,
the white one's of pickled plums (umeboshi).


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Valentine 2012

Shared by friends on facebook
Joys of Japan, February 2012



Olga Hooper . Origa Kankodori Press




Valentine chocolates
I eat one
my wife rest of them

Hideo Suzuki



Valentine's Day--
a sparrow
is my sweetheart

Karma Tenzing Wangchuk


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Yosano Akiko, Midaregami 乱れ髪 Tangled Hair


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blue sky---
stores decorate
for St Valentine Day


Valentine Day---
I eat her
nacho

Fred Masarani


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Valentine's Day--
suffering from
mid-life crisis

Manu Kant



valentine's day....
all geometrical figures
tend to be heart shaped

Kash Poet



a waterfall of hair
conceals a torrent
of kisses

Donall Dempsey



Sur mes lèvres
ce mot d’amour
qu’elle attend.

Patrick Fetu



a bunch of
blue irises on my pillow -
Valentine's Day

Angelika Kolompar


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Valentine day
Venus with Jupiter
closely


Valentine's Day -
in the flower market
red roses

Valentine's Day -
flavor of chocolate
for men

Gennady Nov

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bright red hearts
bouquets of flowers ~
Galahad is dead


he gives her
leopard lingerie. . .
for himself

Elaine Andre


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my funny valentine...
chocolate covered cherries
in a can

Jimmy ThePeach ‎
my funny valentine .. in the WIKIPEDIA !


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Gustav Klimt, the Kiss

Art gallery –
sweet memories
of Valentine’s day

Virginia PopescuJoys of Japan - Poetry


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Midnight
Valentine's Day
To Myself

Satdeep Gill


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Valentine's Day
she tells him how much
he loves her

BILL KENNEY


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. Valentine 2012 in Kenya .


Valentine's Day --
who may be thinking of me
right now?

Isabelle Prondzynski



rush hour--
flower sold everywhere
in the street

Joseph Machariah

PEACOCKS VALENTINES DAY COLLECTION - 01 -




valentine's day--
a girl's red tongue licks
a red ice cream

Dennis Wright

PEACOCKS VALENTINES DAY COLLECTION - 02 -




presenting a flower-
he slips over a bucket
of water

Edith Omuhanza

PEACOCKS VALENTINES DAY COLLECTION - 03 -



- Valentine in Nairobi, Kenya 2012
a note from Patrick Wafula


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Valentine's Day:
with a head cold my wife blows
a kiss and her nose!

Larry Bole


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Valentine's Day Daruma,
courtesy of Doug Gatanis


Valentine morning -
a sweet Daruma
peeks on my screen


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remembering
the sweet taste of haiku -
Valentine's Day over

. WKD : Valentine's Day - Main Entry .


***** . Christian Celebrations in Japanese Kigo .


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We Day

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We Day

***** Location: World
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Observance

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We Day is a day-long event held on September 27.
It is intended to ignite a year-long program for change, called
We Schools in Action --
"a movement of young people leading local and global change."

Chen-ou Liu

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The Children's We Day is more than just one day of celebration and inspiration. We Day is the movement of our time

source : www.weday.com


We Day 2009 - with Japanese
フリー・ザ・チルドレン
source : www.youtube.com


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HAIKU

sunny We Day
twelve first graders
share a cake

Chen-ou Liu
Canada

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***** . World Days .

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Birch tree

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Birch tree (shirakaba)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Various, see below
***** Category: Plant

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Birch is a tree or shrub of the genus Betula,
in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. The Betula genus contains 30–60 known taxa. It is widespread on the Northern Hemisphere, across a variety of boreal, mountainous and temperate climates.

The common name "birch" is derived from an old Germanic root, birka, with the Proto-Indo-European root *bherəg, "white, bright; to shine." The Proto-Germanic rune berkanan is named after the birch. The generic name Betula is from Latin.

The bark of all birches is characteristically marked with long, horizontal lenticels, and often separates into thin, papery plates, especially upon the paper birch. It is practically imperishable, due to the resinous oil it contains. Its decided color gives the common names gray, white, black, silver and yellow birch to different species.


silver birch

Birch wood is fine-grained and pale in colour, often with an attractive satin-like sheen. Ripple figuring may occur, increasing the value of the timber for veneer and furniture-making. The highly-decorative Masur (or Karelian) birch, from Betula verrucosa var. carelica, has ripple textures combined with attractive dark streaks and lines. Birch wood is suitable for veneer, and birch plywood is among the strongest and most dimensionally-stable plywoods, although it is unsuitable for exterior use.

Extracts of birch are used for flavoring or leather oil, and in cosmetics such as soap or shampoo. In the past, commercial oil of wintergreen (methyl salicylate) was made from the sweet birch (Betula lenta).

Birch is also associated with the feast of Pentecost in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia, where its branches are used as decoration for churches and homes on this day.

Birch sap is a traditional drink in Northern Europe, Russia, and Northern China. The sap is also bottled and sold commercially. In the British Isles, the sap is often used to make a wine

Medical
Birch bark is high in betulin and betulinic acid, phytochemicals which have potential as pharmaceuticals, and other chemicals which show promise as industrial lubricants.
Birch bark can be soaked until moist in water, and then formed into a cast for a broken arm.
The inner bark of birch can be ingested safely.
In northern latitudes, birch is considered to be the most important allergenic tree pollen, with an estimated 15-20% of hay fever sufferers sensitive to birch pollen grains. The major allergen is a protein called Bet v I.

MORE
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !


Betula grossa — Japanese cherry birch

Betula mandschurica — Manchurian birch
Betula mandschurica var. japonica — Japanese birch


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kigo for late spring



shirakaba no hana 白樺の花 (しらかばのはな)
birch blossoms
..... kaba no hana 樺の花（かばのはな）
..... kanba no hana かんばの花（かんばのはな）
..... hana kanba 花かんば（はなかんば）



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kigo for late autumn



shirakaba momiji 白樺黄葉（しらかばもみじ）
colored leaves of the birch tree



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Birke, Birkenbaum


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. shirakaba ningyoo 白樺人形 dolls from birch wood .



. Regional Folk Toys from Japan .


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Sweets from Hokkaido

shirakaba jueki shiroppu 白樺樹液から白樺シロップ
birch syrup




shirakaba no shizuku 白樺の雫チョコレート
chocolate made with birch syrup

. syrup from birch sap .



白樺の葉で作った白樺茶
Tea from the leaves of the birch tree
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白樺の雨につばめの巣がにほふ
shirakaba no ame ni tsubame no su ga niou

from the rain on the birch
the nest of the swallow
is smelling

. Iida Ryuta (Iida Ryouta) 飯田龍太 .


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- Seeds from a Birch Tree -
Clark Strand

a beautiful, literary book about writing haiku in the spirit of haiku

Infused with hearty Zen wisdom and proceeding at a deliberately unhurried pace, Seeds from a Birch Tree attempts to make the poetry of nature into an easily accessible refuge from the fast pace of the technological world.


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birch catkins
still surround by mystery
of the winter

- Shared by Gennady Nov
Joys of Japan, March 2012



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Mulberries (kuwa no mi)

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Mulberry, mulberries (kuwa no mi)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Mid-Summer, see below
***** Category: Plant

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mulberries, kuwa no mi 桑の実 (くわのみ)
..... kuwa ichigo 桑苺 (くわいちご)
(lit. "strawberries of the mulberry tree")


The trees flower in May and June and shortly after that bear fruit.　The dark black-purple fruit are quite sweat and juicy.
They are called "strawberries" and given to children, who love to eat them.
Sometimes the juice is used for natural dying of cloth.



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kigo for late spring

kuwa 桑 (くわ) mulberry (tree)
kuwa no me 桑の芽（くわのめ）mulberry buds
kuwa no hana 桑の花（くわのはな）mulberry blossoms
kuwabatake 桑畑（くわばたけ）field with mulberry trees

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. Mulberries and Silk Kigo


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Maulbeere, Maulbeeren

黒き赤き桑の実散らし風騒ぐ　
kuroki akaki kuwa no mi chirashi kaze sawagu　

Die schwarzen roten Maulbeeren verstreut,
tobt der Wind.

Hori Kochoo 堀古蝶（1921-）
(訳:佐　藤　貴白草: Tr. SATOH Kihakusoh)
source :　kihakuso


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kuwabara kuwabara 桑原桑原
is like a spell for lightning not to strike here.
It is analogous to the English phrase "knock on wood" to prevent bad luck.

. Amulets against lightning .
kaminari to mimi no o-tera 雷と耳のお寺
Saifujkji 西福寺 at Kuwabara village


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soomon 桑門 "mulberry gate",
then shamon 沙門（しゃもん)
sanskrit : samana
another name for butsumon 僧門, priesthood

In India this word used to describe people who were not part of the Brahman caste, but left their home and became monks and priests.


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mulberry sake 桑酒 kuwazake , kuwashu
Made from mulberries. "Mulberry wine".
Another medicine type is also made with the bark and roots of the tree.

It is made since more than 470 years ago, in the villages of Hokuriku, where mulberry trees were abundant for the silk production.
Around 1570 travellers brought the brewing secrets to Kyoto.



- Matsuo Basho -

椹や花なき蝶の世捨酒
kuwa no mi ya hana naki choo no yosute-zake

mulberries -
with no more blossoms they are the hermit wine
for the butterflies
Tr. Gabi Greve

Butterflies like to suck the sweet juice of mulberries. They do this in the season when there are no more blossoms and they relish it like a hermit relishes his sip of sake.
source : 椹や花なき蝶の世捨酒


More:
. Comments by Larry Bole .


The mulberries--
Without flowers, they are the butterfly's
Hermit wine.
Tr. Pei Pei Qiu


"Inventing the New Through the Old:
The Essence of 'Haikai' and the 'Zhuangzi'
", by Pei Pei Qiu, Asian Studies,

Qiu points out that:
"The image 'mulberries' has long been used in Chinese poetry to signify rustic country life. Since the foremost Chinese recluse poet Tao Qian [T'ao Ch'ien or Tao Yuanming] (365-427) uses the image in his famous poem "Returning to Gardens and Fields to Dwell" (Gui yuantian ju'), the mulberry tree has been used as a typical image to signify the life and taste of a recluse. ...
In 'waka' tradition, too, the image is always associated with pastoral scenes. Since Basho's works often make direct quotations from Tao Qian's poetry, his depiction of the mulberries as the hermit wine here is apparently a careful choice that evokes the association between his immediate experience of the hut life and the long recluse tradition."

MORE compiled by Larry Bole
source : Translating Haiku Forum


kuwa no mi ya hana naki choo no yosute-zake

mulberry's fruit / flowerless butterfly of / a hermit's wine
(literal translation by Jane Reichhold)

mulberry fruit
without flowers a butterfly
is a hermit's wine
Tr. Reichhold

Reichhold's comment:
1683---summer. 'Yosute-bito' is a euphamism for "priest." The idea is that whoever lives behind a mulberry gate or fence is cut off from the rest of the world. Basho changes 'bito' ("man, person") to 'zake', or sake [the liquor] and keeps the connection to mulberries. There is a wine made from mulberries called 'soochinshu', but Basho is so poor that he can only get drunk by watching the flight of a butterfly. The butterfly has no flowers to visit because the tree bears only fruit, and thus Basho has no wine.
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MORE - hokku about sake rice wine by
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


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kuwa no hacha 桑の葉 茶 tea from mulberry leaves
kuwa cha , kuwacha 桑茶

The leaves are later eaten, over a bowl of white rice.



100%!!岩手県産◆桑茶◆
From Iwate
If you buy now, money will be given to charity for the earthquake.

. Japan after the BIG earthquake March 11, 2011






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The Chinese character 栂 reads tsuga, not toga or taga.
The tree grows in Central Japan.
栂(つが)、マツ科の常緑高木
Japanese hemlock

tsugazakura つがざくら【栂桜】kind of azalea, flowering in July

Mokuboji 木母寺 temple Mokubo-ji
Chinese characters for tree and mother.
- - see Basho haiku below


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Compiled by Larry Bole
. Kigo Hotline Forum .

In every city in the world that has mulberry trees growing next to sidewalks, in June (at least in the northern hemisphere) you get mulberry-stained sidewalks. The fallen mulberry fruit can be squishy and slippery underfoot, and the stain is disturbingly dark, at least in my opinion.

Doing a web-search on the phrase "mulberry stained sidewalk," I find this is true even in a place as remote from the United States as Azerbaijan:

"When their fruit becomes ripe each June, it tends to drop to the ground and stain the sidewalks. That's how you know it's mulberry season in Azerbaijan..."

Some people walk around a mulberry-stained patch of sidewalk, while others don't mind walking through it, some not even watching where they step!

I haven't found too many "kuwa no mi" haiku, but there are a couple.


黒くまた赤し桑の実なつかしき
kuroku mata akashi kuwa no mi natsukashiki

A glimpse of mulberries black and red -
memories of childhood come flood[ing] through my head

. Takano Sujuu 高野素十 (1893-1976)
Tr. Avi Landau

source : blog.alientimes.org


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桑の実や忠治の墓へ駅３分　
kuwa no mi ya Chuuji no haka e eki sanpun

the grave of Chuji
is three minutes from the station -
oh these mulberries

Rakuga
Tr. Gabi Greve

I haven't found another translation of a Rakuga haiku in English, so this may be the only one! I'm not sure what the connection is between mulberries and Chuji, but he was a folk-hero yakuza gambler and murderer whose execution sounds like it was quite bloody, so maybe mulberry stain is suggestive of that.

. Kunisada Chuji 国定 忠治 .
(1810-1851)

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And although not a mulberry fruit haiku,
here is another 'fallen fruit' haiku I find interesting:

木母寺や実桜落ちて人もなし
Mokuboji ya mizakura ochite hito mo nashi
栂寺や実桜落ちて人もなし

Togadera ya mizakura ochite hito mo nashi

Toga Temple;
The cherries lie fallen,
Nobody there.

Masaoka Shiki
Tr. Blyth

An excerpt from Blyth's comment:
Between the reddish-black cherries that lie scattered on the ground like warriors after a battle, and the absence of men in the garden of the temple, there is a subtle connection which may be felt but not explained. The loneliness that the verse expresses is however in the fallen cherries, not in the lack of people present...
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. Temple Mokubo-Ji and Umewakamaru
木母寺 と梅若丸伝説



I can see how the fallen cherries could look like "warriors after a battle," so, here is my mulberry haiku, written after reading what seems like an endless stream of news about gunned-down protesters and suicide bombers:

news of violence:
the mulberry-stained sidewalk
suddenly gruesome

Larry Bole




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麥蒔やたばねあげたる桑 の枝
mugi maki ya tabane agetaru kuwa no eda

wheat sowing --
the mulberry trees
lift bunched branches
Tr. Beichman

Since mulberry trees are tied up during wheat sowing time in order to keep them from hindering the work of the sowers.

Masaoka Shiki　正岡子規
Written during a trip to Takao 高尾紀行
source : www.aozora.gr.jp


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あら恋し木曾の桑の実くふ君は 正岡子規
ありきながら桑の実くらふ木曾路哉 正岡子規
古桑の実のこぼれたる山路かな 飯田蛇笏 霊芝
山桑の実をふくみつつ熔岩の道 大久保幸子
島の長桑の実の酒醸しけり 菅原師竹
指の力抜いて摘みたき桑苺 中村芳枝
掌に桑の実寒き浴衣かな 碧雲居句集 大谷碧雲居
木曽川の瀬のきこえ来し桑の実よ 水原秋桜子
木曾川の瀬きこゑ来し桑の実よ 水原秋櫻子
松下童子に問へば桑の実を食うて夫る 尾崎紅葉
桑の実いろの月がのぼりぬ痘の神 鈴木貞雄

桑の実のうれける枝をやまかゞし 泉鏡花
桑の実のしみ新しき桑籠かな 富安風生
桑の実の一枝を供へ繭供養 熊田鹿石
桑の実の少年の日を口中に 黒坂紫陽子
桑の実の手を零れけり草隠れ 尾崎紅葉
桑の実の毛虫に似たる恨み哉 正岡子規
桑の実の熟るゝ匂ひや通り雨 黒川 龍吾
桑の実の熟れて靄立つ高嶺村 飯島 愛
桑の実の甘き旧道坂急に 杉本寛
桑の実の紅しづかなる高嶺かな 飯田龍太 涼夜
桑の実の紫こぼる石舞台 柴崎左田男
桑の実の落ちてにじみぬ石の上 佐藤漾人
桑の実の落ち散らばれる飼屋かな 松原 正子
桑の実の葉うらまばらに老樹かな 飯田蛇笏 山廬集
桑の実の赤き入日や半夏生 菅原師竹句集
桑の実の青き八十八夜かな 上田 花勢

桑の実やその葉がくりに瑞乙女 石塚 友二
桑の実やそゞろありきの掌 巌谷小波
桑の実やちゝはゝ今も在します 倉田紘文
桑の実やふるさとことばもたらせり 小島千架子
桑の実ややうやくゆるき峠道 五十崎古郷句集
桑の実や児にまいらす李氏が環 高井几董
桑の実や奥多摩日々に小雷 飯田蛇笏 春蘭
桑の実や家家に残るランドセル 石田仁子
桑の実や幼くて父亡ひし 天野 逸風子
桑の実や廃宮の庭の甃 竹冷句鈔 角田竹冷
桑の実や擦り傷絶えぬ膝小僧 上田五千石 田園
桑の実や旧家は町の史料館 下間ノリ
桑の実や棺をくくりし繩あまり 大峯あきら 鳥道
桑の実や洋傘帯にさし写生する 長谷川かな女 雨 月
桑の実や湖のにほひの真昼時 水原秋櫻子
桑の実や父を従へ村娘 高濱虚子
桑の実や男素直になる歯並み 椎塚つね子
桑の実や窓よりじかに老婆出づ 武田伸一
桑の実や端山に白雨きらめきて 柴田白葉女 『月の笛』
桑の実や経し世は常に炎なす 落合水尾
桑の実や花なき蝶の世すて酒 松尾芭蕉
桑の実や行きて返さぬ渡舟 小島昌勝
桑の実や諭してつづく父の文 高橋悦男
桑の実や軍用倉庫まだ残る 金元喜代子
桑の実や轆轤たちまち壺をなす 吉良 蘇月
桑の実や馬車の通ひ路行きしかば 芝不器男

桑の実を口にし手にし下校の子 佐藤栄男
桑の実を口に含めば雲の照り 坂巻純子
桑の実を口のうつろに落す音 高浜虚子
桑の実を喰ふは鴉と山童子 鈴木保彦
桑の実を噛めり若さはとゞまらず 佐野まもる
桑の実を夫と食みつつ畦越 大高千代
桑の実を見あげふるさと皆ちがふ 阿部みどり女
桑の実を食ぶ師弟の永かりき 根岸たけを
桑の実を食むや他郷の風の中 岡部名保子
桑の芽だ山帰来の実が枯れて 北原白秋

泳ぎ子の出ては桑の実喰ひにけり 雉子郎句集 石島雉子郎
舐めてまだ渋い桑の実水の国 河合凱夫
般若波羅蜜小声に桑の実をぬすむ 高井北杜
葬り路の桑の実黒く踏まれけり 西島麦南
鮮烈に桑の実あかき殉教址 佐藤国夫
黒き赤き桑の実散らし風騒ぐ 堀 古蝶

source : HAIKUreikuDB


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kigo for all summer

natsuguwa 夏桑 (なつぐわ) mulberry in summer
A mulberry tree in summer, with so many green leaves.


夏桑や裾をあらはに蔵王山　
natsuguwa ya suso o arawa ni Zao san

mulberry tree in summer -
appearing at the foot of
Mount Zao

Ikeda Shuusui 池田秀水（1933-）


. Mount Zao and Yoshino


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Blazing Sky (enten)

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"blazing sky" (enten)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: All Summer
***** Category: Heaven

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Explanation

"blazing sky", enten 炎天 (えんてん)
the burning [blazing] sun, hot weather, scorching sun
sky in a drought, hideri zora 旱空（ひでりぞら）
.... kanten 旱天（かんてん）"dry sky" dry weather


aburaderi 油照 (あぶらでり 脂照) "oily sunshine"
sweltering heat
(implying some kind of humidity)
glühende Hitze


These words come with various translation possibilities.



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Compiled by Larry Bole
. Translating Haiku Forum .

My simple Random House Japanese-English dictionary defines 'enten' as:
"very hot weather."

Blyth, in his comment on a haiku that uses the word 'enten', says:
"'Enten' is extreme, windless heat under the direct rays of the sun."

炎天に菊を養ふあるじ哉
enten ni kiku o yashinau aruji kana

In the burning sunshine,
The master cherishes
His chrysanthemums.

--Masaoka Shiki
Tr. Blyth


What brought the various ways of translating 'enten' to my attention are several different translations of a haiku by Yamaguchi Seishi 山口誓子:

炎天の遠き帆やわが心の帆
enten no / tooki / ho / ya / waga / kokoro no / ho
flaming-sky's / distant / sail / : / my / heart's / sail
(literal translation by Makoto Ueda)

Under the flaming sky,
a distant sail: in my
heart, a sail.
trans. Ueda


Sails in scorching heat
in the offing are the sails
within my spirit.
trans. Kodaira & Marks


Distant sail
under blazing sun, sail
of my heart
trans. Beichman


burning sun
a distant sail
of my heart
trans. Haldane


Seishi himself says of this haiku
(from The Essence of Modern Haiku, trans. Kodaira & Marks):
I can see sails in the offing under a blazing sun. Living near the shore, I often see white sails in the offing and carry them in my heart. The white sails in the offing under a blazing sun are real, while the white sails within my heart are not---the consonance of the real and the unreal.
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Ooka Makoto, in his book, A Poet's Anthology: The Range of Japanese Poetry, comments on this haiku (trans. of comment by Janine Beichman):

Depending on one's point of view, one might call this either a poem of youth, in which a young person expresses longing, or else a poem of maturity, in which an older person's sense of regret and isolation is projected onto a sail seen far off in the distance. The brief haiku form, rather than conveying its creator's real meaning openly, sometimes, as here, shows us a strangely beautiful world, beyond time, beyond thought.

In actual fact, this poem was written on August 22, 1945, one week after the end of the war, while Seishi was convalescing from illness near the sea at Ise. "Down and out" would probably best describe the mood it was born from.
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So, there have been a number of ways of translating 'enten' into English, in translating haiku:

burning sunshine
flaming sky
scorching heat
blazing sun
burning sun

other translations of 'enten' from haiku not given in this post:

scorching sunshine
sky blazing
scorching sky
sun is blazing
sweltering heat

In general, I kind of like "sweltering heat," which is how David Lanoue translates 'enten' for several of Issa's haiku. But "sweltering heat" implies a personal bodily feeling. In the context of Seihsi's haiku, in which something is being observed at a distance, I like Beichman's "blazing sun" best.

Larry Bole



sails under the blazing sky
sails in my heart
Tr. Gabi Greve
Reading the explanations, I see these sails as plural.


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Kenya

. Scorching sun .
kigo for the hot dry season


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Things found on the way

Temple Entenji 炎天寺 Enten-Ji
Tokyo, Adachi ward



This temple is in memory of two haiku by Issa.
There is a statue of a frog on a lotus leaf, reminding of the "yasegaeru" frog haiku by Issa.

At this temple there is an "Issa Festival" held every year on November 23.
A haiku contest for children is held.
一茶まつり全国小中学生俳句大会

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Nearby is the shrine Hachiman Taro Minamoto no Yoshiie, and the area was known as "Rokugatsu Mura" (June village), remembering the famous battle fought there in June. It was very hot during this battle, hence the name.


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HAIKU

enten ni soogyoo tooku yori kitaru

In the scorching sunshine,
The figure of a monk
Coming in the distance.

--Seishi, trans. Blyth



enten ya jarimichi yukeba choo no kara

Sky blazing--
as I go down the gravel path,
husks of dead butteflies

--Shiki, trans. Burton Watson


enten ya shoufu no ie no fukawadachi

blazing sun...
by a whorehouse
the deep rut

-- Ritsuo Okada,
Tr. William J. Higginson & Tadashi Kondo



enten yori zoo hitori nori Gifu Hashima

under a blazing sun
one monk got on the train -
Gifu Hashima

--Mori Sumio, trans. Gabi Greve



enten no chijoo hana ari sarusuberi

under the scorching sky
on the ground these flowers -
crape myrtle

--Takahama Kyoshi, trans. Gabi Greve



enten ya genbaku shikiten akago naku

The sun is blazing --
a baby crying bitter
in the A-bomb rite

--Yasuhiko Shigemoto, trans. unknown


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--Haiku by Itaru Ina
trans. Hisako Ifshin & Leza Lowitz

enten ya jukai ni shizumu karasu ari

Scorching sun!
A crow sinks
into the sea of trees.


entenka umi ni wa tooki kuni ni kinu

Under the blazing sun,
I have come to a country
far from the sea.


enten ka ogoreru kuni ni noroi are

Under the scorching sun
on and on I curse
the arrogant country.


entenka tobaku ni shirete nachisu-jin

Under the scorching sun,
the Nazis lose themselves
in gambling.



enten ni hi o amu toki ikusa yamu

While I was sunbathing
in the broiling weather,
the war ended.

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haiku by Santoka 　山頭火


炎天をいただいて乞ひ歩く
enten o itadaite koi aruku

Walking and begging,
thanking the burning sun.
trans. endoy
(http://www2.biglobe.ne.jp/~endoy/AISATSUE.html)


Burning heaven on my head I beg I walk
trans. Hiroaki Sato

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enten hateshinaki
kaze fuku

Endless scorching sun--
the wind blows
Tr. Addiss

Comment by Addiss:
Here the calligraphy seems more restrained and graceful than the previous tanzaku, but the freedom of the brushwork is at least as strong as before, if more subtle. The single column of words is maintained within the center of the format as though the red paper were itself the blazing sunlight, withering the calligraphy as though it were Santoka's body in the heat.
For example, the kana syllable shi is created with a single thin verticle line in the center of the tanzaku, but when the character kaze is written three graphs later, it opens the space as it might cool the pores of a sweaty body.
For some viewers, it may seem odd to see a Santoka poem, with its simplicity of diction and plainness of speech, on a surface so highly decorated with fluid patterns of cut squares of gold leaf. However, the contrast may add to the effect of the calligraphy, just as it gives extra impact to the words of the haiku.
source of tansaku :　www.amazon.com


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enten kakusu tokoro naku mizu no nagarete kuru

Burning heaven with no place to hide
the water flows toward me
trans. Sato

No place to hide from the blazing sun;
The water flows by.
trans. John Stevens

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enten no reeru massugu

Under burning heaven the railroad track straight
trans. Sato

In the blazing sun:
Railroad tracks,
Perfectly straight.
trans. Stevens


enten no machi no mannaka namari ni yu

In the boiling sun
(The construction workers)
Heat lead.
trans. Stevens

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enten o kite menkai no kyoka narazu

scorching sun
visiting a patient
no admission

--Hakuun, trans. Inaoka Michiko & Inaoka Tadayuki

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-- Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, trans. Lanoue

enten ni teri korosaren atama kana

in sweltering heat
sunshine kills...
my poor head!


enten ni tade kuu mushi no kigen kana

sweltering heat--
the knotweed-eating bug
in fine mood


enten no toppazure nari sumi o yaku

at the edge
of the sweltering day...
burning charcoal


. . . compiled by Larry Bole, Kigo Hotline

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炎天の空美しや高野山　
enten no sora utsukushi ya Kooyasan

the blazing sky
is so beautiful -
Mount Koya Monastery

Takahama Kyoshi 虚子
Tr. Gabi Greve

. Koya San in Wakayama 高野山 .


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our eyes locked
under a blazing sun
caged cobra and me

Chen-ou Liu
Canada


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source : Haiku Annai

炎天の色やあく迄深緑　子規
炎天や蟻這ひ上る人の足　子規

炎天や行路病者に蠅群るる　龍之介
炎天や逆上の人もの云はぬ　龍之介
炎天にはたと打つたる根つ木かな　龍之介
炎天や切れても動く蜥蜴の尾　龍之介
炎天に上りて消えぬ箕の埃　龍之介

炎天や天火取りたる陰陽師　鬼城

炎天の底の蟻等ばかりの世となり　放哉
蛇が殺されて居る炎天をまたいで通る　放哉

炎天の涛に照られて月消ゆる　月二郎

炎天や白扇ひらき縁に人　石鼎
炎天に梅干食うて尼が唇　石鼎
炎天や枳殻をわたる烏蝶　石鼎
炎天や彷彿として伊良子崎　石鼎

炎天の火の山こゆる道あはれ　秋櫻子

炎天や死ねば離るる影法師　麦南

炎天や雀降りくる貌昏く　多佳子
炎天に松の香はげし斧うつたび　多佳子
炎天の梯子昏きにかつぎ入る<　多佳子
炎天や笑ひしこゑのすぐになし　多佳子

英霊となり炎天をかへり来給へり　鷹女
炎天に眼をさらし哭かじとす　鷹女
炎天に愛しみあへり鶴と女　鷹女
炎天を泣きぬれてゆく蟻のあり　鷹女

杉の秀に炎天澄めり円覚寺　茅舎

炎天を歩けばそぞろ母に似る　汀女

炎天やけがれてよりの影が濃し　三鬼
炎天の坂や怒を力とし　三鬼

炎天の城や四壁の窓深し　草田男
炎天の城や雀の嘴光る　草田男
炎天の号外細部読み難き　草田男
戦車の後炎天のマラソンひそと　草田男
炎天や金潤ひて銀乾く　草田男
炎天に名所写真師半平和　草田男

炎天の焚火の焔めくれつつ　誓子

炎天に芥焼く火ぞすさまじき　草城

喜劇見て炎天のもの皆歪む　林火
炎天に怒りおさへてまた老うも　林火

炎天に古鏡かくれて光りけり　静塔


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blazing sky
a patch of brown
on the pink lily

Dr.Vidur Jyoti
New Delhi, India

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blazing sky-
I look at the eagles
still flying high

Sunil Uniyal
India

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***** WKD ... Sky in all seasons ...


***** . Yamaguchi Seishi 山口誓子
（1901.11.03 - 1994.03.26）

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Haiku by Itaru Ina
Itaru Ina was born in San Francisco, Calif., on June 10, 1914.
His father was an immigrant who worked for the local Japanese newspaper and his mother came to America as a picture bride.
http://www.modernhaiku.org/essays/itaruinahaiku.html

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Patrick's Day

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St. Patrick's Day

***** Location: Ireland, worldwide
***** Season: Spring (March 17)
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

St Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland,
and his feast day on 17 March is a public holiday celebrated with much enthusiasm. St Patrick's Day always falls within the season of Lent, and for those who keep the fast, it is a day of respite, when the fast may be broken before (hopefully!) being resumed until Easter Eve.

St Patrick's Day is a day of great celebration in all Cathedrals and churches named after St Patrick (foremost among them being St Patrick's Cathedrals of Downpatrick and Dublin) as well as the places most closely associated with the life of St Patrick, such as Slane and Tara (where St Patrick is said to have lit the Easter Fire -- an event which directly led to the Christianisation of Ireland).

Nowadays, St Patrick's Day is also associated with greeting cards, parades, and public firework displays -- as well as with American celebrations, which include green beer, green rivers, gigantic green hats and celebrations in the White House (attended by numerous Irish politicians and VIPs).

Isabelle Prondzynski

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Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 461.
.. .. .. .. .. More is here:
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=89


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Prayer for St Patrick's Day :

Almighty God,
in your providence you chose your servant Patrick,
to be the apostle of the Irish people
to bring those who were wandering in darkness and error
to the true light and knowledge of your Word:
Grant that walking in that light
we may come at last to the light of everlasting life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen


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St Patrick - the story

St Patrick was born a Briton under Roman rule - the exact location of his birthplace isn't known but it was either the north of England or southern Scotland.

In his teens he was kidnapped and brought to Ireland as a slave by Niall of the Nine Hostages, a famous king of Ireland whose son Laoghaire was later to play a large part in Patrick's mission to convert Ireland to Christianity.

Patrick was taken to Antrim where he was sold to a local landowner, Meliuc, who put him to work as a shepherd.

For six long years Patrick lived upon the Slemish mountain with only his sheep for company. The land was bleak and the conditions harsh but Patrick found solace in the faith that his people had abandoned under Roman rule. He prayed day and night to the Christian God who brought him comfort during this time.

One night he heard a voice calling to him, telling him that the time had come to escape. It told him, "See, your ship is ready." Patrick knew that he had to travel south to seek the ship God had told him of. He travelled for 200 miles until he came to Wexford where, sure enough, a boat heading for Britain was waiting.

Patrick approached the captain, who at first denied him passage. He turned away, praying for God's guidance. Before he finished the prayer he heard a member of the crew calling to him to come with them - they had changed their mind and could provide him with safe passage home.

Patrick did not seem destined to have an easy life - when travelling home through Britain he was captured by a band of brigands, who returned him to slavery. Desperate, Patrick heard God's voice reassuring him that, "Two months will you be with them."

Sure enough, after sixty days in their company, God delivered him from their hands. Patrick then spent seven years travelling throughout Europe trying to determine what his purpose on earth was. Eventually he came to the conclusion that he should study to become a true servant of God, taking his message throughout the world.

He first studied at the Lerin Monastery, situated on an island off the Cote d' Azur. On completing his studies he returned to Britain as a priest. He remained in Britain until a voice came to him in a dream. He recognised it as the voice of the Irish, which begged him, "We beseech thee, holy youth, to come and walk once more amongst us." At this point, Patrick's purpose in life was revealed to him - he would convert the Irish to Christianity.

This and more here :
http://www.saint-patrick.com/history.htm

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Saint Patrick's Day Parades



Contrary to popular belief, this tradition did not originate in Ireland. The first St. Patrick's Day celebration in America was in 1737 hosted by the Charitable Irish Society of Boston. Today festive parades are held all over the world, for no more sinister purpose than raising a glass to the saint and celebrating Irishness.
http://www.ireland.com/events/st.patricks/articles/article4.htm

Read more here:
. Reference : Parades

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Greeting cards

The Irish postal services (An Post) issue annual greeting cards and postcards at a standard price including the stamp for anywhere in the world. It has become a custom to send St Patrick's Day greetings to any Irish friends or relatives living abroad. Many of the cards are humorous, and most are received with a sense of joy and nostalgia combined.



St. Patrick's Day Postcard

St. Patrick's Day Postcard, that features the stained glass window depicted on the 2005 stamp.
. http://www.irishstamps.ie/


President's greeting

The President of Ireland issues a St Patrick's Day message and greeting to the Irish abroad, many of whom work abroad in emergency relief or development organisations, or as missionaries or church workers all over the globe.


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St Patrick's Day is now celebrated in many parts of the world. Outside Ireland, it is the carnival element that has caught on -- whether it be in the streets of New York or Tokyo, or in the Irish Pubs of Berlin or Warsaw.



Galway's African community shared in the fun;
St Patrick is the patron saint of not only Ireland, but also Nigeria.


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QUIZ
So you think you know a lot about Ireland?
Here are 50 questions to test the wits of any would-be hibernophile. Have a go to see if you're guaranteed Irish or simply a plastic paddy.
http://www.irishtimes.com/events/st.patricks/quiz//


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KENYA

St Patrick’s Outing, Nairobi 2007


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rainbow threads arching
shamrock skies and golden coins
St. Pat perfection

St. Patrick symbols
shades of Ireland memories
clover and claddagh

shamrock sentiments
emerald clover conveying
an Irish blessing

Judith A.Lindberg
www.bry-backmanor.org/holidayfun/patspoetry2.html

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Anti-War Haiku Wall Spring Haiku—2003
Mark Johnson (USA)

somber St. Patrick’s—
winter-weary New Yorkers
brace for spring attacks.

www.tempslibres.org/awhw/seq/seq04.html


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St. Patricks-day
the festive parades
for peace

Geert Verbeke
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2004/01/friends-geert-verbeke.html

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St. Patrick‘s Day –
not knowing any better,
lambs dance a set

Paddy Bushe
(Ireland – transl. from the Irish by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky)

From Shamrock Haiku Journal No 2, 2007.


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St. Patrick's Day
to be or not to be Irish
is that the question?

Chen-ou Liu
Canada, 2011



Artwork: Constanta Erca, Haiku composition: Ioana Dinescu


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From Don Baird, USA :

Originally, when St. Patrick was on his mission trips to Ireland he would use the Shamrock (three leaf clover) as a symbol of the trinity. It was his visual aid in regards to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

St. Patrick’s Day –
a tavern’s three cheers
for the shamrock!

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Blue was the original special color of the day. It wasn't until much later that green took it over. Most probably it occurred as a result of St. Patrick using a green leaf to explain the trinity. So, if you wore blue today, you would be pinched in jest! Tomorrow, it might be enough green to keep you from being pinched. But, sorry ... it's too late!
It is a wearing of the green ceremony now.

the wearing of green ...
blue hues of the past
pinched


St. Paddie's ...
yesterday's pinch
green today!


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The St Patrick's Day parade is the largest parade in the world. They have well over a 100,000 participants marching in the parade. The streets are full of spectators and participants combined. The 69th Infantry leads the way by being the first event in the parade. They have been doing that for years!

69th Infantry –
walking the streets
of New York


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St Patrick's Day
I chat with a leprechaun
after the black stuff

St Paddies night
enjoying the craic
and the fiddler's jig

wearing the shamrock
all the wild rovers
sing Molly Malone

Grace Galton
Somerset, England


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St Paddy's Day
annual free for all
of green and black

no more snakes
lots more guinness
Ireland heaves a contented sigh

green grow the rushes
green are Molly's eyes
green sunrise in Ireland

a frenzy of green
a light shower
a golden sunset


Seaview, 2011


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St. Patrick’s Day—
black Irish don’t
wear green

St. Paddie’s Day . . .
hoping for a pinch
or a pat

St. Patrick’s Day—
why must the beer
be green?

Margaret Dornaus, U.S., 2011




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saint Patrick's day..
even the rivers
run green

- Shared by John Byrne -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013



St. Patrick's Day -
with songs and beer,
we are all Irish

blagdan sv. Patrika -
uz pjesme i pivo
svi smo Irci

- Shared by Tomislav Maretic -


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Related words

***** . WKD : Christian Celebrations

***** . WKD : Memorial Days of Saints



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