soft fruit
swelling on the branches
full buck moon
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: moon
From the Farmers’ Almanac:
“July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month’s Moon was the Full Hay Moon.”
circus time
a dove escapes
the magician’s hat
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Posted on Kirsten Cliff’s blog, Swimming in Lines of Haiku, 18 July 2013, in response to her July challenge, “I Quote, You ‘Ku.” Today’s quote was:
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
~Rabindranath Tagore
(The challenge, in Kirsten’s own words:
“… is to write a haiku or tanka (or choose one of your previously published works) that has a connection with the themes/feelings/images of the above quote, without just restating what has appeared in the text, to create a haibun. Play around with it and see what you come up with. Enjoy!”)
spring snow…
anything for a singing
insect
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Presence 48, June 2013
pine tree cicadas
the bleached cotton dress
of my youth
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: white
bindweed
lingers at the gate –
my teenage years
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: linger
death’s-head moth
I pick a scarlet red
lipstick
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: moth
tuning in
to marshland songs –
heatwave
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: outside
your email
in my inbox –
cooing dove
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: chirp
I am very pleased to share the news that a positive review of my poetry book “In the Garden of Absence” appeared recently in the print edition of Modern Haiku:
“This is an engaging collection…,” Modern Haiku 44.2, 2013 (in the “Briefly Noted” section).
I’m taking part in the summer/winter 2013 Smashwords e-book promotion. For the whole month of July, In the Garden of Absence, will be available as an e-book from the Smashwords site at the reduced price of $1.50 USD, that is 75% off!
To download a copy, please visit Smashwords by clicking here and use coupon SSW75 at checkout.
The offer is good through to the 31st of July 2013.
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“In Pierides’s meditations, imagination takes center stage, as do imaginary gardens, real toads, and their negative space… The result is a welcome debut in which the reader will find much to admire.”
“Briefly Reviewed,” Frogpond, 36-1, Spring 2013″
firewall
the screen animals
disappear
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: wall
Welcoming new prompter for July: Gillena Cox
The new THF Per Diem collection, Songs of the Open Road, is up and running over at the Haiku Foundation site. Guest-edited by Tom Painting, it takes us on 31 exciting, meditative, and always inspirational journeys. Highways and motorways, straight paths and winding lanes are there for us to explore all through July. In his introduction to the collection, Tom Painting quotes from Walt Whitman’s poem, Song of the Open Road:
“ Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me…”
I very much look forward to these journeys. Join me on board the THF Per Diem for the ride. Each day a new haiku here
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
longest day
the storm tips
the balance
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: fragment
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From the storm in Neusaess, Germany
summer solstice –
a minute longer
in the tree pose
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Balance
picture and frame
barefoot on the last bus
home
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: matching
Photo and image manipulation: Stella Pierides
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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
