Stella Pierides

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leaving a trail
of crumbs for the way back
history lesson

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Prompt: photo of wine cellar, NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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shower of sparks
last year‘s pine cones
giving up the ghost

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Prompt: campfire. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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rice fields after the harvest caesium

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refusing to draw
the plow, water buffalo –
caesium fields

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Prompt: environmental concerns haiku. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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just because
the sky is navigable –
thistledown

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Prompt: just because. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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baring his teeth
the hobbling dog –
harpsichord

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This month’s prompter, Terri Hale  French, suggested we use a randomly generated haiku by the haiku generator (a JavaScript Haiku application) to work on our own haiku. I did. The result is the haiku above. You can see the original, software generated haiku below:
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harpsichord sickens
dense snowstorms hobbling dogs
wailing, formless

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car boot sale -
on schoolyard tables
grown-up divorce

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Prompt: second hand. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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Aegean heat -

in the animal shelter

an eery silence

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Prompt: natural disasters. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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a goldfinch
lines her nest
thistledown

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Prompt: Photo of thistle with cicadas. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

Atlas Poetica, Special Feature From Lime Trees to Eucalypts: A Botany of Tanka, poem #20, (26 August 2011)  (Olea europea) 

The Mainichi Daily News, 29 August 2011. (‘warm morning’)

escarp, the ‘ selective, twitter-based review of brief poetry and prose’ (‘glacial’)

Red Dragonfly, Melissa Allen’s, excellent mainly haiku blog, (‘dark waters’ and ‘iridescent wings’) and

Asahi Shimbun, in David McMurray’s column The Asahi Haikuist Network, on the 19th of August 2011 (‘grey skies’ and ‘watermelon’)

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glacial

the silence of space

against glass

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In escarp, the ‘ selective, twitter-based review of brief poetry and prose’, posted on 20 August 2011. (#8)

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wireless
the quiet certainty of
old love

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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: radio

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flying saucer
the wind carries away
my hat

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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: flying

All  you ever wanted to know about dragonflies … in haiku…in Melissa Allen’s blog Red Dragonfly.

It is a dream of a post with amazing poems, images/artwork. (Don’t miss the video of the dying dragonfly.) The links to the poets and their sites/work is an extra bonus, and I know it is much appreciated.

So, go over there and read! (Delighted that two of my own haiku are included! Thank you, Melissa!)

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mushroom garden

mushroom garden–

in the damp, dark corner

full moon

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magic mushrooms

magic mushrooms—

under the duvet I find

stars

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from the primordium

dark cloud–-

from the primordium

a billowing mushroom

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In Red Dragonfly, Mushroom Harvest, July 2011

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star gazing
I leave my shadow
behind

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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011. Prompt: bad haiku (so, how can I write a good haiku without my shadow?)

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teeth skin
hanging loose
a meta-ku

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s
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i
n

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Prompt: Experimental haiku, NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

For an introduction to experimental haiku, Terri Hale French, this month’s prompter for NaHaiWriMo, suggested  George Swede‘s article in Simply Haiku.

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this moussaka
I taste the tomatoes
still ripening

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NaHaiWriMo:humour.

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flea market
in this light her pearls look
false

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Prompt: garage sale, NaHaiWriMo extension 2011

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wallflower—
slowly getting to know
your sense of humor

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Prompt: walls, NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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full moon—
a meteor flies past
incognito

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Prompt: space. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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fireflies–
reflected in her eyes
my childhood

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Prompt: daughters. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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this heart urchin shell half-buried in the sandbed

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Prompt: Write a one line haiku.

Terri Hale French, this month’s prompter for NaHaiWriMo extension 2011, suggested an article from Simply Haiku, to help us orient ourselves. Really helpful article, by William Higginson, can be read here.

For images of heart urchins click here. Pages and pages of them…

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on my doorstep–
this old city in flames
licking its wounds

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Well, even though I am not in London at present, as I live there for part of the year… a ku from my watching the news.

Prompt: front porch. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011

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frayed at the edges
this sunflower had too much
sun

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Prompt: sunflower. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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pale moon—
sugar crystals travelling
south

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Prompt: tired/sleep. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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Hot dog
when hunger gets the better
of me

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Prompt: dog. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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ruby wine—
the song of a canary
on my tongue

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Prompt: beverage. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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ebb and tide—
our holiday against
the horizon

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Prompt: driftwood haiga. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011. Written for photo by Terry Hale French.

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sun-kissed Aegean
gulls swoop where the boat
has been

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Prompt: journey. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

I have been reading an article published in Notes from the Gean, The Intentional Ellipses: Haiku and its Relationship to Space, by Tracy Koretsky, and so experimenting with space in this haiku. While not a new article – it was first published in Triplopia, the excellent  internet journal no longer available online – it had escaped me first time round.  I am so glad Notes from the Gean published it now. I am going back to reading and trying out more space haiku…

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life’s journey
I count the years
in my neck

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Prompt: journey. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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beach combing–
amongst pebbles a muddy
Drachma

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Prompt: coins. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

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corn silk—
still searching for the face
under all this hair

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Prompt: child/childhood. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.