photo: Martin G. Wienert, Baltic Sea (December 2009)






the snowman --
believe me, he giggles
from time to time
(AW, 2009)

photo: Martin G. Wienert







on honorable Buddha's
honorable nose
an icicle

(Kobayashi Issa)




http://haikuguy.com/issa/search.php?keywords=Buddha&year=

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Rome 2009










Summer or autumn?
Rome can't decide
this morning
(AW, 2009)

photo: Martin G. Wienert (2009)




nearly lunch time --
I can't stop watching
the bumblebee
(AW, 2009)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Schloss Dyck (June 2009)





near the lake --
two boys count their
mosquito bites
(AW, 2009)

At The Supermarket

"Special offer!"
No customer wants
brown strawberrries.
A boy can't find
his favorite ice cream.
Vanilla taste
doesn't solve the problem.
At the exit
a Jehovah's witness tells me
that the end of the world
is near.
And I just have bought
six bottles of shampoo ...

(AW, 2009)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Halde Haniel, Bottrop -- art of Agustín Ibarrola (2009)





summer wind --
the toy airplane loses
a wing
(AW, July 2009)

Bottrop is a neighbortown of my hometown Oberhausen. In Bottrop you can visit the famous Halde (slag heap) Haniel which has been greened over. On the Halde Haniel you will find a lot of beautiful plants, butterflies, a big cross, stations of the cross (Pope John Paul II visited this place), modern art (see the photo) and more.

photo: Martin G. Wienert, in our garden



Invitation to visit

senryu-shelf

(not far away ... -- just a few steps ...):


http://senryu-shelf.blogspot.com/



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photo: Martin G. Wienert, vending machine in Kyoto (2007)



I mentioned the yellow parasol before (see below). It was so hot in Kyoto in May 2007. And there were a lot of women with parasols. We went to Takashimaya (department store) and looked for things which could help us in the sun ... Now I use this parasol in the German summer ...





a memory:

Cool green tea!
When I cross the street
I will taste it
(AW, 2009)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; former cooling towers, Zeche Zollverein (2009)






day in July
a child looks up at
the cooling tower


day in July
father's explanations about
the cooling tower


day in July
with my yellow parasol
near the cooling tower

(AW, 2009)





cooling towers are part of my Ruhrgebiet-(Ruhr-area)world, you find them in many cities of the region where I live -- it was so strange, we (kids) heard often the expression cooling tower but there was no cooling for us in the summer heat (the cooling towers had only a nice name ... they were used for industrial purposes)

photo: Martin G. Wienert, and again Zeche Zollverein (2009)





"In summer, the song sings itself."
(William Carlos Williams)





William Carlos Williams:
http://tinyurl.com/nfxal9

photo: Martin G. Wienert, Zeche Zollverein (2009)

click on the photo to see it large






last day of June
I've found a shady place
for my dreams
(AW, 2009)







to the photo: what you see above is a skating rink in winter
http://tinyurl.com/m7ollf

informations about Zeche (coal mine) Zollverein:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/975

photo: Martin G. Wienert; castle Dyck, new gardens (2009) 

Summer day.

What is the name of 

this peculiar plant?

(AW, June 2009)

 

photo: Martin G. Wienert; roses in the park of castle Dyck (2009)





scent of roses --
two old ladies whispering
at the corner
(AW; Mainichi, September 2003)






about castle Dyck:
http://www.rhein-kreis-neuss.de/en/themen/schloss_dyck.html



castle Dyck near the town Neuss in North Rhine Westfalia --
on the map (link below) you'll find the town Neuss and my hometown Oberhausen (Oberhausen, on the map in the North):
http://tinyurl.com/mu3xvw

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Duisburg Nord (2009)




"My reflection...
remembering the name
of the stream"

(Vincent Tripi, see the links below)




http://tinyurl.com/ntgp72

http://tinyurl.com/mrvlej

photo: Martin G. Wienert (me in London)


No, I wasn't in London last weekend ...

Above you see a photo from last year. But I enjoyed it to follow a conference in London -- via twitter, last Saturday. I thought that it would be a good time for someone who loves short poetry and it really was a good time.

Here more about this conference (Tate Modern, London):

"Shortness
A very short conference and a very long dinner

Saturday 20 June 2009, 14.00–21.30

14.00–17.00 symposium 18.00–21.30 dinner in the East Room"

"In short, this event brings together practitioners and theoreticians of the humanities, arts and sciences to extol or berate, to discuss, explore and explain shortness in all its spatial and temporal manifestations..."

"...The short conference is followed by a long dinner in Tate Modern's East Room. Dinner guests will be entertained by short speeches and the whole event is supplemented by short films, performances and various intervention..."

http://tinyurl.com/pmpbuf

http://tinyurl.com/mzudof

See here the panel discussion (and in the background twitter).

http://twitpic.com/7wi2x

What a view!

http://twitpic.com/7wwtk

twitter:

https://twitter.com/short_at_tate


youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK38SuxZx7c

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park (2009)





old smokestack, dark walls...
I'm a dwarf
in Metropolis
(AW, 2009)





Metropolis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)


trailer
http://tinyurl.com/mkos93

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Grugapark Essen (June 2009)




Corpus Christi -
over the highway
with hymns


Fronleichnam -
über die Schnellstraße
mit Kirchenliedern

(AW, WKD 2005)



http://tinyurl.com/2qj8de

photo: Martin G. Wienert, roses in the Grugapark (June 2009)


http://www.grugapark.de/im-park.html



A sepal, petal, and a thorn
Upon a common summer's morn
A flask of Dew - A Bee or two
A Breeze - a caper in the trees
And I'm a Rose!

(Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Stiftung Insel Hombroich (2009) 

behind 

the glass door 

the path into spring (AW, 2009)

http://www.inselhombroich.de/karte.htm

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Langen Foundation, Neuss (May 2009)




the sound of silence
is all the instruction
you'll get
(Jack Kerouac)



http://www.langenfoundation.de/?L=1

photo: Martin G. Wienert; the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park (May 2009)


former smelting works
a victorious conqueror
this green
(AW, May 2009)

http://www.landschaftspark.de/en/derpark/index.html

photo: Martin G. Wienert, at our pond in April 2009




hi, bumble bee!
let's work and hum
side by side!
(AW, April 2009)



And today the long expected rain! Our garden is so fresh now! Lovely!

photo: Martin G. Wienert






First page―
a man's empty hands
the earthquake

(AW, Asahi 2004)








"an earthquake hit L'Aquila and other towns in central Italy,..."
(BBC, April 6, 2009)

"Italy Earthquake Kills 150, Leaves Thousands Homeless"
(Bloomberg.com, April 6, 2009)

photo: Martin G. Wienert, bamboo grove (2007)



lent --
the cross not yet
veiled

(AW, March 2009)


http://caribbeankigo.pbwiki.com/Caribbean-Kigo-Kukai-Results

I loved to participate. Thank you, dear Gillena!

photo: Martin G. Wienert, spring 2008

nearly daybreak

the salt spreader returns

from the highway

Angelika Wienert (Oberhausen, Germany)

(Mainichi Japan) March 25, 2009

http://tinyurl.com/d42pxz

private note:

I miss you all but I've not much time for poetry in the moment! Sorry!

photo: Martin G. Wienert



Ein schöner Tag!
Heute traf hier Post aus Finnland ein! Haiku aus Finnland!

What a nice day!
Today I received a letter from Finland! And haiku!




Und nun sitze ich hier ... Und übersetze ...
And now I sit here and I try to translate ..



syksy majassani --
kylmä päivä
kylmä yö

(Issa; in: Kogarashi, S. 28, editor: Juhani Tikkanen)




autumn (but what means majassani?) --
cold day
cold night


Herbst (majassani ?) --
kalter Tag
kalte Nacht




a day later:
I still look for "majassani" -- perhaps Juhani will comment, then we will know ...


please read the comments, read what Juhani (Tikkis) wrote, it`s so interesting!

photo: Martin G. Wienert


Heute traf hier Post aus Finnland ein! Finnische Haiku!
Today a letter from Finland! A letter and haiku!


Und nun versuche ich zu übersetzen ...
And now I try to translate ...

koivu = Birke/birch

tuuli = Wind/wind

talven = Winter/winter

katolla = Dach/roof

etc.


syksy majassani --
kylmä päivä
kylmä yö

photo: Martin G. Wienert (December 2007)







crusted snow
so weak
the sun and I

(AW, January 2009)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; aralia elata in winter (Jan. 2009)









Cold day --
the fingers more stiff
this year

(AW; Mainichi, January 2005)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; January 5th 2009






Ssh!
The kois dream
under the ice

(AW, January 2009)

photo: Martin G. Wienert; Baltic Sea, Christmas 2008





first day of the year
the ice fisher wears
a new cap
(AW, January 2009)


first published here:
Lunch Break

12 days of Christmas

http://myblog-lunchbreak.blogspot.com/2009/01/12-days-of-christmas-day-eight-nine.html



and another version (a good suggestion in a haiku-forum):

new year ...
the ice fisher wears
a new cap