About Mark Scott
exploring the seasons and sharing haiku
Guided by the 72-season calendar, SeasonWords.com provides readers with a weekly exploration into the changing seasons through poetry and prose.
Each post investigates a specific seasonal element such as the migration of birds or the creation of frost. Then, we read some haiku written about that season.
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in the hot day what's buried there? crow ~Issa (translated by David G. Lanoue) June 17- June 23 is the 25th week of 2024. This week, we enter the Solar Term of Summer Solstice (June 21 - July 06). “Plums Turn Yellow” (June 16 June 20) and “Self-Heal Withers” (June 21 - 26) are the micro-seasons for this week. Basho, Issa, Buson, and Reichhold wrote the poems selected for this w...
Week 25: “Summer Solstice”
Jun 23, 2024
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Sitting in a palace a distant frog listening to night ~Buson (translated by Allan Persinger) May 06 to May 12 is the 19th week of 2024. This week, we are in the Solar Term of Beginning of Summer (May 05- May 20), and the micro-seasons of “Frogs Start Singing” (May 05 - May 09) and “Worms Surface” (May 10 - May 14). Basho, Issa, Buson, Sokan, Reichhold, and Kerouac wrote the poems selected ...
Week 19: "Frogs Start Singing"
May 11, 2024
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