White stone hits wood and cracks Winter air
Katz!* What are you?
Tree limb snaps; heavy snow.
(*) from writings of Z.M. Seung Sahn, see 喝.
Official explanation from Kwan Um School of Zen: “The meaning of “Katz” is Katz! It’s a strong shout from the lower belly to help wake up to the mind before thinking”.
Go is not for greedy 
“Passing Time In Mirkwood”
Pipesmoke grey-weaving
Hunched over the tree-stump board
Perching crows gaze down
And another:
Muramasa stones
Every time that they’re unleashed
They must kill a group
Tsumego Haiku
Solved first kyu with ease,
Then confounded by a twelve?
Which the illusion?
I do experience this sort of thing with some regularity.
You my friend are dead,
There is no room for two eyes!
…How did you get out?
When Santa left late,
He had to fly faster. Why?
His go game ran long.
My fingers are cold
Bears keep trying to spectate
I want some mulled wine
Real thoughts of the right-handside guy in https://ogs-forums.s3.amazonaws.com/original/2X/1/169349f61c04e941a875a6f214da8461d09b0a79.jpg
Invincible Dragon Haiku
I had a dragon,
But it swallowed its own tail.
Hell does freeze over.
The store’s Christmas goof:
Shipping go games, not chess sets.
There were no returns.
A handicap game
Black stones all over the board
But somehow white wins.
(Posting at 11:52 here, the procrastination is real)
Iyama beat Zen
A meditation contest
In a waterfall
Hope Springs Eternal Haiku
A blown joseki,
Yet all my stones forgave me.
Vote of confidence!
We play a go game
To allot the Christmas gift.
Loser gets fruitcake.
Some explanation may be needed, as I don’t know the status of fruitcakes in other countries. In the United States, fruitcakes are widely considered a suitable subject for jokes.
Thanks, I assume this the context:
Nah, it’s more because it’s a lame gift that nobody wants.
In the U.S., most fruitcake isn’t very good, while many people would say that even good fruitcake is bad. I don’t care for fruitcake, but my father (nearly 90 now) is very fond of it.
Speaking from England, I really like fruitcake. Don’t understand how you can say “fruitcake isn’t good in the USA”, are you saying that you buy it from a shop? Make it yourself!
Most of the fruitcake I’ve tried (store-bought, but not by me) was really bad. I’ve tasted good fruitcake on just a couple occasions.
Didn’t know you were from England—somehow I’ve always had the impression you were U.S.
Just got to bake it yourself.
No homemade christmas cake over the pond?
Single color go –
Something fresh, a new challenge.
I regret nothing!
