winter evening shrouds
smoke like cloud
Some bad weather coming up from down in the Southern Ocean a few weeks back. Usually we get a lot of rain in Melbourne when clouds this dark arrive. The sun was setting across Port Phillip Bay as we looked out towards Geelong with apprehension. This is my contribution to Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #276 Smoke&Water by hitting this link you can see all the other creative haiku shared from around the world.
When I first saw this challenge I thought Ronovan was calling out to all those Baby Boomer Rockers from the 1960-70’s. My memory went back to Smoke on the Water, the classic Deep Purple anthem written one confusing night on Lake Geneva. So I came up with another themed haiku for all those old Rockers.
smoke on the water
hotel burns
I have a Japanese friend who thinks he may have been at the Osaka leg of the famous Made in Japan tour on the 15th August 1972. They don’t create music like this any more. Do they?
Haiku hound 
A beautiful haiku to accompany the storm clouds Denis and thank you for a little rock & roll nostalgia too! 😁🎶🕺
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Thanks Xenia. I could not resist Deep Purple with those words.
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Oh yes, Smoke on the Water, it became every Sixth Form band’s favourite cover. I don’t think I knew anybody with an electric guitar that didn’t know that opening riff. Wonderful. I loved it. Your top photo pretty much offers a visual version of smoke and water.
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Pleased to reawaken your Deep Purple nostalgia Agnes. That cloud really looked like a fire it was so intense.
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WOW! amazing photographs, dear Denis, we haven’t enough rain this season, not normal. Deep Purple, they were the best in outr times, in70’s and 80’s best hardrock band… Wonderful haiku lines, hitting the photographs… Thank you, have a nice weekend, Love, nia
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Thanks for your praise Nia. The images are not quite as good as some of your recent storms though. Good to hear you are an old rocker too.
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You get quite the feel for the weather reading the haiku and when you match it to the photos, it’s magic.
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Thanks Annette that was one big storm coming and it looked so much like a fire. Ronovan can get the imagination working most of the time with his 2 words as you know.
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Lovely shots, Denis…and rather nostalgic music too 🙂
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Thanks Sue. R & R of that era still features highly in my listening.
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Mine too 🙂
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Two kinds of smoke/cloud on the water 🙂 …now I’ll have to revisit some Deep Purple. Those water/sky photos are beautiful.
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Thanks Janice. There is an interesting story behind the lyrics of that song.
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Moody shots and some nostalgic fun
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I love these storms especially when there is time to watch them come in then race home before they arrive. Deep purple, still ahead of most contemporary rock.
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Both haiku are perfect, and an interesting explanation to go with them. I went with the obvious. Tell me why does your friend only think he was at the concert…. Okay don’t worry 💜😜 I am only kidding 🦇
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Thanks for the positive comments. Each of my posts is a haibun, image and story with a haiku a bit like Basho and his Narrow Road to the Deep North except he had sketches. I did not go further with my Japanese friend as it may have been lost in translation however he did take a university break year and travel Australia in the 1970’s so I keep an open mind.
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I did mean to say the photos are beautiful too, somehow I left the photos out. The Haibun is a lovely medium . As for your friend I just meant I’d of remembered but we are all different 💜🌹
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Thanks. I think he was alluding to a wild youth, very un Japanese like.
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Indeed 💜
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Wonderful images for dark waters. ❤ I'm a storm watcher myself. I've been caught in a few that were very scary with high winds. 😦
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Thanks Olga. We can look out across this Bay and usually see the weather coming for some time before it arrives, usually from the West or South West.
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