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Haiku in August

These are my writings of haiku in August. Broad letter is a season word. a cotton rose night breeze blows two tipsy cotton roses on a garden bench 夜風ふく縁台にふたつ酔芙蓉 a peach sip a peach extinguish the embers inside 桃啜りこの身の熾きを鎮むべし a tomato kiss a blushing cheek of a tomato start a day lively 赤茄子にチューしてハツラツ行ってきます at the beginning of autumn at the beginning of autumn the sun rises touch slower 秋たちて半歩遅れて日がのぼる cicadas shut down the computer trills of cicadas rush into my eardrums a green caterpillar a green caterpillar a gluttony lodger in my garden 芋虫や大食漢の居候 a camellia nut rub a creaking old house with a camellia nut 古家の軋みに当てる椿の実  the first autumn wind the smooth skin is rippled by the first autumn wind 初風や滑らかな肌あわだちぬ beyond the heat limit beyond the heat limit the Trilling Orchestra formed two groups 処暑過ぎてトリル楽団二部となる Japanese pepper A Japanese pepper- grace spirits of women in Meiji era 山椒の実明治女の心意気 Monkey booze sip monkey booze return t...

Between

to the moon between night and day sky blow a kiss start a day

Full moon in August

the full moon night listen to a love song sung by a lonely cicada

August 1st

In August do radio gymnastic exercises with the dog 八月や 犬と第一 いちにさん Hachigatu ya Inu to daiichi 1 2 3 *** In Japan, elementary schools are on summer vacation during late July to the end of August. During the vacation,  "radio gymnastic exercises" are held in public grounds from 6:30 a.m. every morning. Children, their parents and neighbors gather in the nearby ground and do "radio gymnastic exercises" to the music on the radio. Children are given attendance cards, and each morning the leader stamps on it. I felt proud to see stamps filling my card. A card filled with stamps is a trophy for a child. Doing exercises in the shrine's  ground.