{"id":7190,"date":"2006-09-23T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T15:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/09\/23\/autumn-comes\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:54","slug":"autumn-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/09\/23\/autumn-comes\/","title":{"rendered":"autumn comes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There must be something special about the autumn equinox<\/a>, with summer’s meteorological end and the coming of fall –they inspire many fine haiku. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"leavesSwirling\"\u00a0 The change of seasons seems to suit John Stevenson<\/a> very well.\u00a0 Snapshot Press<\/a>\u00a0just chose<\/a>\u00a0this poem to feature for September in its 2007 Haiku Calendar<\/a><\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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soaking autumn rain
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This one\u00a0by John garnered Honorable Mention in the same contest:<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font>\u00a0<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n

sparrows sift through
\nthe shopping carts
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end of summer<\/font><\/div>\n
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“soaking autumn rain” –\u00a0Upstate Dim Sum<\/font><\/em><\/a>; Wiinner 2006 Haiku Calendar Contest<\/a>\u00a0<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
“sparrows sift through” – Modern Haiku<\/em>; Honorable Mention, 2006 Haiku Calendar Contest <\/font><\/div>\n
“end of summer”\u00a0 – <\/font>Upstate Dim Sum<\/font><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(<\/font>2003\/II<\/font><\/a>)<\/font><\/font>\u00a0<\/div>\n

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Michael Dylan Welch<\/a> also celebrates\u00a0autumn with a fine touch:<\/p>\n

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a table for one–<\/font><\/div>\n
leaves rustle<\/font><\/div>\n
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smell of hot dust<\/font><\/div>\n
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. . . . . . . . . . . .\u00a0by Michael Dylan Welch<\/strong><\/font><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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“a table for one<\/a>” & “first cold night<\/font><\/a>”\u00a0 <\/font>– Open Window<\/em>, haiku and photo\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n
“<\/font>leaves turning<\/font><\/a>” The Heron’s Nest<\/em> (Sept. 200<\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"leaf\"\u00a0 If you’re interested, we collected some autumn equinox haiku<\/strong><\/a> this time last year, and you can find more written this year at Falling Leaves<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 There must be something special about the autumn equinox, with summer’s meteorological end and the coming of fall –they inspire many fine haiku. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The change of seasons seems to suit John Stevenson very well.\u00a0 Snapshot Press\u00a0just chose\u00a0this poem to feature for September in its 2007 Haiku Calendar: \u00a0 \u00a0 soaking autumn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1RY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12625,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions\/12625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}