Pond vs Esenin - The Haiku Writers Showdown!

Esenin was born on October 3rd, 1895. Pond was born September 22nd, 2008. Both writers' haikus are very Libra.

Ida Celestia Pond has written a lot about her Russian blue cat (named after Russian poetry), Haiku. Esenin also wrote poems about his childhood Russian blue.

Not all haiku writers are Russian! Ida Celestia Pond is Canadian (with absolutely no knowledge of Russian or ties to Russia besides her cat and love of haikus), Canada being the 2nd largest country after Russia. Esenin was definitely Russian.

Ida Celestia Pond was the daughter of a lyric poet and tour guide, Patrick C. Pond, who in turn was the son of "Lost Youth" poet and Fredericton mayoral candidate Jack Pond. I will not list all of them, as all the Ponds are a very long dynasty, beginning with "Poet Laureate of the Nashwaak river" Glenn E. Pond.

Consequently, both of them have pond-related and duck-hunting themes in a lot of their haikus.

Though Esenin wrote haikus about ponds, the last name Esenin in Russian means "loved" and has nothing to do with ponds at all! The last name Pond in English is pretty self-explanatory.

Esenin's haikus praised the woods and waters of Russia, Pond's haikus praise the woods and waters of Fredericton.

Pond's first name (Ida is her middle name), Celestia, was given to her by her dad, a Fredericton tour guide, who was pretty fond of the city's nickname, the Celestial City. "Sergei" isn't a place.

Esenin was the haikuist who wrote "Confessions of a Hooligan". In addition, he toured around the world reciting haikus as well as writing them all over the hotel furniture. Ida Celestia Pond (who definitely has a passion for vandalism) partly learned what a "wholigan" was after The Who, and knew she was one. She would go on vandalism sprees through the streets of Fredericton, most memorably she wrote haikus all over her next-door neighbours' woodshed.

Well, if you know these haiku writers, this is pretty obvious. (Esenin was lucky with that, Pond not so much.)