Cuckoo haiku

cuckoo! cuckoo!

meditating on that theme

day dawned

-Chiyo-ni 

~from Jane Reichhold's

AhaPoetry.com

Another version of the above haiku:

While I was musing on my theme,

Repeating "cuckoo," day has dawned.

hototogisu

hototogisu tote

akeni keri

~by kaga no chiyo (1703-1775)*

*As a young girl, she asked a well-known poet for lessons in Hokku.  He assigned her the most common, yet most difficult subject, hototogisu, and then rudely went into the next room to sleep.  At dawn, she handed him this "perfect" verse.  The master was humbled by a child. ~from The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology by Faubion Bowers

The sunrise photo is from October 24th 2010, looking towards the Rincon Mountains, east of Tucson, Arizona.  The bird appeared in front of the pinkish cloud the moment the picture was snapped.  Linking to Skywatch Friday a fun photo meme for enjoying skies from around the world.

Skywatching at Dawn

"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life."  ~J.Krishnamurti

To see skies from around the world, visit Skywatch Friday.