Vespertine
Evening walks in Haiku
She smiles, and all is well in my world — anonymous
road mirroring sky
nocturnal conversations
those vespertine shaped.
The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night — Yasunari Kawabata
Moonlight tracing path
Bough-capillaries form arc
Night-o-poetic
Vespertine: Occurring or flourishing in the evening
Author’s Note:
The selection of the paintings is self-explanatory.
Painted by Victorian era artist John_Atkinson_Grimshaw (1836–1893) are noctornal scenes of urban escape. Called a “remarkable and imaginative painter” by critic and historian Christopher Wood,Grimshaw is considered the best and most established nightscape and townscape artist of all times.
Go take a walk of these poetic nights!
Thank you Pierre Trudel Jenny Justice Tapan Avasthi Heidi Franklin and American Haiku for publishing me.
Thank you to everyone who decides to take note.
