marine life
two hermit crabs fight
over a shell
Shiki Kukai June 2013 (10 pts)
marine life
two hermit crabs fight
over a shell
Shiki Kukai June 2013 (10 pts)
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pearl necklace song of a barefoot child
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: pearl
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winding road to nowhere rituals
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Blithe Spirit 23:2, 2013
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warm days wrapped up in a word too many
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Modern Haiku 44.2, 2013
Remember my haiga ‘euphorbia’ posted here a few weeks ago? To see it, please click here
The original photo was of my pond. Below left is another photo, taken in May last year. Then we had a terrible storm. On the 20th of June 2013, the winds raged round the pond, the garden, the whole city; the impact of this storm on my pond can be seen below right:
needles, then trees
swirl round the pond —
eye of the storm
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sleeping beauty —
how the storm covered
your charms
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ivy clinging to the tree trunk her long nails
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Modern Haiku, 44:1, 2013, p. 109
summer solstice –
a minute longer
in the tree pose
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Balance
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catching the sun daylilies
NaHaiWriMo prompt: pairs dance
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Photo: Whitstable harbour, Kent, UK.
Photo and image manipulation: Stella Pierides
spinning barefoot –
yarn after yarn the fabric
of my tales
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: spin
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forcing life out of a stone
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: zoo animal moment
Photo and image manipulation: Stella Pierides
spit polishing
her scuffed shoes—
war child
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Haiku News, Vol. 2 No. 17: Karma Tenzing Wangchuck, Stella Pierdes, Michael Henry Lee
May 13th, 2013
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First appeared on NaHaiWriMo
screeching tyres
the red camellias
in her front garden
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Blithe Spirit, vol 23:2
pond fountain
the solar cell gets
little sun
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Fountain
poems in waiting
the years I lost for fear
of chrysanthemums
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9 May 2013 Issa’s Untidy Hut
poacher’s moon
a crocus knows how
to wait
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Haiku News Vol. 2 No. 20: Sandip Sital Chauhan & Stella Pierides
spring tides
the doctor keeps wiping
his nose
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A Hundred Gourds 2:3 June 2013
Mosel vineyards
at the end of the steep climb
raising a glass
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MaHaiWriMo prompt: climb
deluge the remains of dignity
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Shiki Kukai, May 2013 Kigo entry: 3 pts
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clothesline
the Persian rug in a cloud
of dust
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Shiki Kukai, May 2013 Free Format entry: 5 pts
beyond a shadow of a doubt
white geranium
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: shadows
gliding through channels
in the Garden of Eden
Marbled Ducks
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: reeds
Related news article here
Rembrandt’s gaze
the hush in the visiting
school class
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Art
fireflies
the stars in the embers
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starry night
in awe of the seas
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: name
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the false modesty of sunflowers
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: yellow
out of uniform –
on the bus home the nurse
rolls a cigarette
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: uniform
siesta
emptiness in the heart
of the forest
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: trees