When the cicadas cease
what coolness
the voice of the pines
I found this haiku by Baijaku in the beautiful essay Lafcadio Hearn and Haiku, by Cor van den Heuvel http://www.modernhaiku.org/essays/hearnandhaiku.html
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was a writer, translator, and journalist. In the four books written during his time as a professor of English literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo —Exotics and Retrospective (1898), In Ghostly Japan (1899), Shadowings (1900), and A Japanese Miscellany (1901)—he described the customs, religion, and literature of Japan.
Poem by Baijaku
Picture by Derek Arguello
This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.
You have seven days from the posting of this haiku to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.
Submission deadline: 4th July 2018