17 responses to “Carpe Diem Haiku – Meigetsu (Harvest Moon)”

1. An awesome painting you share here with us Bjorn. And your haiku respons on Meigetsu is great. Thank you for sharing.

2. Beautiful, lonely haiku

3. exhausted
   old farmer at last in bed
   farmer’s wife frowns

   JzB

4. I see the farmer
   but can’t find the wife in bed
   as coverlets roll

5. This feels like grief to me. The farmer died? Lonely haiku and well done.

6. I have a different perspective on the farmer: I think he’s a philanderer and is in someone else’s bed tonight!

   Harvest Moon

7. Sad but lovely and I think the farmer is off busy harvesting and will be back.

8. So everyone who commented had a different take on your ‘cold bed’ haiku! You made it easy to step into the story! This would be perfect for a tan renga…..let everyone write their own endings.
   Here’s mine:
   failed crops
   he’s forced to work in the city.

9. make hay while sun shines
   harvest moon for play with wife
   soon you be sorry

   (Is that a haiku?)

10. It’s the word deserted that has me wondering. If he’s out bringing in the harvest why wouldn’t she be helping him? I love that we all have our thoughts about this. Excellent, Bjorn!

11. PS
    Third edition of the Polish International Haiku Competition:
    http://polish.international.competition.haiku.pl/index.php
    Winners: 2011 Cynthia Rowe, 2012 Roberta Beary
    Judges: 2011 Jane Reichhold, 2012 Jim Kacian, 2013 George Swede

12. ‘oh, that man’, she complained, ‘he’s always looking for excuses to stay away’…

13. Haunting—you can feel the loneliness. Thank you!

14. What everyone seems to be missing. This is a rorschac test. In the painting is a 3 legged man w/white skinny legs wearing a hat and boots (don’t you see him?). That has got to be the farmer walking home to his wife from the fields…

15. Being either a farmer’s wife or a sailor’s wife seems to be quite a poor choice. (Smiles)

16. at harvest moon
    all play and no work
    hungry stomachs

    • 🙂

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