September Kigo Challenge

Kigo, or seasonal words, are a literary element commonly used in haiku, that allow the poet to instantly transport their reader to a time and place.

For September we challenged our poets to use the following kigo in their pieces: bundle, dusk, or reeds. Below are the best submissions of both haiku and “One Breath” poetry.

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temple prayer -

a scent of benzoin 

fills the dusk

Vaishnavi Ramaswamy - Chennai, India

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rosy hues

fading at dusk . . .

hospice center

Valentina Ranaldi-Adams - Fairlawn, Ohio, USA

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lunar eclipse

dusk resetting

on the ocean

Joanna Ashwell - UK

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school memories -

a bundle of letters

greying

Vaishnavi Ramaswamy - Chennai, India

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homemade bundle

an autumnophile cradles

the simpler past

Ernesto P. Santiago

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Ink moon 

leftover rain dances on 

bundles of newspapers

Laila B - Brooklyn, New York, USA

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dusk song

I listen to 

lapping waves

Tuyet Van Do

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reeds by the lake

speechless warriors

of its secrets

Boryana Boteva - Sofia, Bulgaria

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sliver of dusk –

shifting the book 

to catch the light 

Ben Oliver - Stroud, England

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din of dialects

begins to ebb . . .

dusk in the tideland

Monica Kakkar - India and United States of America

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