f/k/a archives . . . real opinions & real haiku

Here’s another bountiful crop of harvest-moon haiku dedicated to our weblog colleagues.   

– – haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by author-poet, professor David G. Lanoue 

 

 

for haiku lover Robert Ambrogi of LawSites

in the harvest moonlight
unruffled, unaffected
scarecrow

 

for Kevin O’Keefe at Real Lawyers Have 

hazy night–
sake is flowing
waterfall and moon

for Jonathan Mayhew at bemshaw swing

on one knee
the moonlight…
frog in the evening

 

  for the long-overdue Stuart Levine at TaxBizLaw

the moon at your feet
look! look!
croaking frog

 

for soloist supreme Carolyn Elefant of MyShingle

 

if only she were here
for me to nag…
tonight’s moon!

 

for the hopeful TBP, Esq. at unbillable hours

departing geese
where will you moon-gaze
tomorrow?

 

for J. Craig Williams at May It Please the Court

a lucky fox
deigns to bark…
hazy moon

 

for Margaret Marks von Transblawg

spooning up soup
and bringing forth
the moon

 

 

for Howard Bashman at How Appealing

scolding
vain man…
the autumn moon

 

  for Matt Homann at the [non]billable hour

 

my hut’s mosquitoes
go out to make a living…
dusk moon

 

 

for the young and restive Insomniac

“Gimme that harvest moon!”

cries the crying
child

 

for Steve Minor at SWVaLawBlog

tonight’s moon–
how many mountains resemble
the ones back home?

 

 for Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft

do you shine
so I’ll steal the plum blossom
moon?

for Prof. Lessig at his appropriate weblog

 

the defeated wrestler, too
joins the crowd…
bright moon

 

for Madeleine of Mad Kane

granny comes
drinking her sake…
a moonlit night

 

for Glenn K. Garnes of EsqLawTech

under my bottom
the stone warms up…
moonlit night

for Marcia Oddi of the not-just Indiana Law Blog

holding up
the hazy moon…
willow tree

 

for Genie Tyburski of VirtualChase  

 

harvest moon
on a clear, rainless night
elsewhere!

 

for lawyer-poet >Deborah Sirotkin Butler

 

glimpsing the moon
over my home village…
also brings tears

– click here for over a hundred autumn moon haiku by Kobayashi Issa 
– many thanks to the translator, author-poet, professor David G. Lanoue 

– see our tribute to the October Hunter’s Moon, a/k/a Blood Moon, here.