Delighted! My haiku “starry night” came second (tied) in the July/August 2011 Sketchbook Kukai (peer-reviewed contest).
Here it is:
starry night—
growing old
together
Delighted also that several of my fellow haijin from NaHaiWriMo did so well, esp Terri Hale French (1st), Michelle Harvey, Cara Holman, and others…
Two other haiku I submitted received no votes! Food for thought, of course.
The entire thread can be read by clicking here
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last kiss
i unplug
the telephone
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: kiss
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rose-tinted clouds
in Broadstairs –
marshmallows
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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missing you –
on the ocean floor
conch shells
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: telephone.
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on this spot
the sun has been –
moonshine
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: loss
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balance –
perched on a wire a dove
and a crow
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt Pris Campbell: beauty
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out of Ithaca –
a poem about
life
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: journey
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moving house –
a snail and the same old
me
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: home
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bamboo screen –
not a single
butterfly
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: butterflies
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gnarled olive
the tenderness of human
love
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: courtship etc
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coming home –
the garden has forgotten
my hand
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: sabi
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sunrise –
the singular beauty
of a rose petal
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011. New prompter, Pris Campbell, prompt: awe
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crocus-
cutting your first
tooth
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: beginnings
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making ends meet –
I sew an extra button
on my waistband
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: ends
So pleased that my haibun ‘Drawings’ was accepted by Contemporary Haibun Online!
‘Drawings’ is now online on Contemporary Haibun Online, ‘The Quarterly Journal of Contemporary English language Haibun.’ My piece can be read here
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harvest festival
the last apples before
the Fall
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: celebration.
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harvest –
so much food for
the soul
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: harvest.
September challenge 19 Planets.
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autumn circus –
keeping all her juggling-balls
in the air
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: circus
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so many bees
on the Autumn Joy…
Octoberfest
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Autumn Joy = one of the sedum family (flower)
Oktoberfest: oh well…
NaHaiWriMo extension 2011, prompt: autumn flowers.
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school science?
the teacher insists on
cutting up a frog
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; Prompt: children.
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setting sun –
I too let go of
attachments
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Thinking about this haiku, hm, it seems better without the ‘my’. I’ve made the change in the haiku, but not in the haiga.
photo: Hermann Mueller; haiku: Stella Pierides.
NaHaiWriMo extension 2011 prompt: sunset
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September challenge (almost there!)
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repose-
riding
not riding
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long after we’ve gone
this girl will be riding
her whale
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watching poets
come and go
come and go
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peace offering
I check her
age
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The sculpture, the little lake girl, maybe mermaid, riding the whale, in the Kurparkschloesschen, in Herrsching am Ammersee, is by artist Hilde Grotewahl. It can be seen on the promenade, opposite the Schloesschen. More work by this artist in her website here.
(Original title in German: Die kleine Seejungfrau)
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Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September challenge.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Peace
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growing up –
I learn to live
with the tides
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011, prompt: beach.
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September challenge.
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: animals
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September haiga challenge.
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your patience –
the way a river
cuts through rock
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NahaiWriMo extension 2011. Prompter: Johnny Baranski, prompt: river(s).
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Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September challenge: A haiga a day … or so…
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what I know
each lake has its own
full moon
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This haiku was written in response to a prompt for a haiga using Margaret Rosenberg’s artwork. You can see the whole artworld + haiku (haiga) in here
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through the fog –
mountains of orange
pumpkins
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: mountains
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summer –
this bee
gets lost again
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: Haynaku
