Ugly Moon?

Have to share this with you all. When I cycled to my work last night I saw an egg-shaped moon hiding behind a veil of clouds and that brought me the next haiku:

egg-shaped moon
hides behind a veil of clouds -
does she feels ugly?

does she feels ugly?

our princess of the night
egg-shaped moon

Isn't it a strange scenery?

An Impromptu Verse

Sometimes I write 'Ins Blauen Hinein' a haiku and today I love to share one of these Impromptu verses. Just written today when I sat on the terrace. Maybe this is what haiku means ... haiku is a moment as short as a pebble thrown in a pond ... this was such a moment.
It was almost noon and when I looked up to the sky I saw the sun and the moon standing together at the sky. This brought me the following haiku:

already noon
still together the sun and the moon -
ah! what a joy

I like this one.

Isn't it awesome ...

Through the Seasons

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The prompt for today is Moon and I had to write a haiku (or a few) on our beloved satellite the Moon. So let's go do this ...

through the seasons
every human changes a lot
the moon stays herself

the moon stays herself
from waning to growing
in circles

in circles of color
she, the moon, hides her face
behind the veil

behind the veil
she, our beloved moon, changes
through the seasons

September Heights, day 4: Moon

Inspired by the theme at

Today's theme is one of my favorites ... Moon. I love the moon in all her manifestations and all those wonderful nicknames she is given through history. This is the September Heights so I associate this theme with the moon of Autumn which is, in my opinion the most wonderful one as it is (and was) for the classical and modern Japanese poets.

Corn Moon or Harvest Moon, the full moon of September

The full moon of September is called Corn Moon or Harvest Moon. This full moon’s name is attributed to Native Americans because it marked when corn was supposed to be harvested. Most often, the September full moon is actually the Harvest Moon, which is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox. In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October. At the peak of harvest, farmers can work late into the night by the light of this Moon.
I love all those different names for our natural satelite the moon.

Credits: Chrysanthemum Moon

In China the full moon off September is called Chrysanthemum Moon and in the classical Celtic culture the September full moon was called Singing Moon (or Muin - Vine -) as this month is named in the Tree or Ogham calendar). It has been so named in reference to the festive attitude known to every laborer who has toiled to complete work necessary to the survival of the community and now celebrates the completion of those labors.

This is a time for the exhilaration that comes with rest after your labors. Whether you know this as the Beaver Moon, the Fog Moon, or the Singing Moon, you are able to feel all energies marching resolutely toward completion, acceptance, and mellowing. The balance of light and darkness brought by the Autumnal Equinox on 9-21 is the culmination to be found at this turn of the Wheel.
The Summer King, mortally wounded by the grain harvests, prepares to make his way to the Summerlands deep within the mysterious underworld where all things are bound to travel before they are renewed with the spring. In his final sacrifice he offers to take your deepest fear, your heaviest burden, and your bitterest heartache with him on his journey.
This charitable offer to help you as you clear away your regrets and clean-up physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual clutter should be mirrored in your own offers of charity as your thoughts turn from what you need to preserve to carry your hearth and home through the darkness to come to what those around you still need to safely carry them through what is to come also.
The releasing of sorrows at this time of year is common to many cultures and often villagers would bring small representations of their regrets in the form of "corn dollies" to be thrown in the communal balefires lit to burn away the waste and unneeded husks of the recent harvest. (Source: Midnight Moonchild's website)

Singing Moon

Enough inspiration I think to write a haiku (or a few haiku) with the moon as theme. So let me try ...

through the broken window
I can see the Harvest Moon -
a love song for my wife

a love song for my wife
white Chrysanthemums and red roses
Singing Moon

Singing Moon
the Old Celtic druids already knew
Autumn equinox

Autumn equinox
I look at the Corn Moon
through the broken window

Well ... what do you think ... a canticle for the full moon of September ... see you all tomorrow

By the way: I hope to catch up with reading all your entries at September Heights. So much to read and so less time.

SENSATIONAL HAIKU WEDNESDAY (26/10)

This week's prompt "scare"

My interpretation of this prompt uses "scary" in stead of scare:

a scary sight
the bare branches
in the moonlight

Sincerely,