Connecting to nature through poetry and prose
September 30 - October 06 is the 40th week of 2024. In the northern hemisphere, we are now in meteorological and astronomical fall. The Solar Term for this week is Autumn Equinox (Sept 22 - Oct. 08), and the micro-season for this week is “Farmers Drain Fields” (Oct 03 - Oct 07). Basho, Issa, Buson, and Reichhold wrote the poems selected for this week.
October 30- Nov 05 is the 44th week of the Gregorian calendar. Within this week we have the Solar Term of Frost Descent, the micro-seasons of “Light Rain Showers”(Oct 28 - Nov 01) and “The Maple and the Ivy Turn Yellow (Nov 02 - Nov 07), along with the celebrations of Samhain, Dia de los Muertos, and Halloween. The haiku for this week came from Basho, Izen, Issa, Reichhold, and Kerouac.
September 12 - 16 is the micro-season of “The Wagtail Calls”. This is the second micro-season of the season of White Dew. To celebrate this season, we will learn about the Wagtail and then read haiku by Issa, Basho, and Buson.
August 28 to September 01 is the micro-season of “Earth and Sky Begin to Cool”. This is the second micro-season of the season of Limit of Heat. To celebrate this season, we will learn about the conditions that contribute to the changing seasons, the festival of Nihyaku-toka, and then read haiku by Basho, Issa, and Buson.
August 23 to August 27 is the micro-season of “The Cotton Lint Opens”. This is the first micro-season of the season of Limit of Heat. To celebrate this season, we will learn about the cotton plant and then read haiku by Reichhold, Basho, Issa, Buson, and Wright.
Aug 17 to Aug 22 is the micro-season “Thick Fog Blankets the Sky”. This is the third micro-season of the season of First Autumn. To celebrate this season, we will learn about autumn fog and then read haiku by Issa, Basho, Buson, Reichhold, and Kerouac.
Aug 07 to Aug 11 is the micro-season “Cold Wind Blows”. This is the first micro-season of the season of First Autumn. To celebrate this season, we will learn about the O-Bon Festival and read haiku from Basho, Issa, Reichhold, and Kerouac.
We have entered the micro-season of “The Maple and Ivy Turn Yellow". This is the third micro-season of the mini-season of Frost Descent. As a way to celebrate this season, we will learn about what causes leaves to change color and then read some seasonal haiku by Issa, Basho, and Buson.
We have entered the micro-season of “The Rice Ripens”. This is the third micro-season of the mini-season of Limit of Heat. As a way to celebrate this season, we will look at the taxonomy of the rice plant and how it is grown. Then we will read a variety of seasonal rice-themed haiku by Issa and Basho.
With the leaves dropping from the branches, and the flowers curling in on themselves, the poets are spurred to pick up their pens and write about these transitions. Today we have three poems about leaves.
From the budding apple tree to the fall harvest, each moment of an apple’s life can find its way into poetic verse. Today we have collected four poems from four poets that will take you from the apple blossom to the apple harvest.
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