east wind
the play of sunlight
on water
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: enightenment (Carlos Colon)
36/100 Days of Summer
Category Archives: Poems
‘the old flame’ #13 August 2012
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the old flame growing old acer
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: love
35/100 Days of Summer
‘long hours’ #12 August 2012
long hours
the heat of the patio
stones
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: holiday activities (Annie Juhl)
‘a thousand times’ #11 August 2012
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a thousand times on the lips watermelon
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: watermelon (Stella Pierides)
‘whistling’ #10 August 2012
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whistling through a blade of grass poems I might write
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: grass (Melissa Allen)
34/100 Days of Summer
‘tide pool’ #9 August 2012
tide pool
a sea urchin loses
its spines
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: tide pool (Patty Hardin)
33/100 Days of Summer
In the Haiku News
“Mexicans Pay in Blood for America’s War on Drugs”
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tasting metal
the cup fills with news
of war
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This haiku, linked with the article above, now appears in Haiku News: the personal is the political is the poetical
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(Vol. 1, No. 30)
‘spider web’ #8 August 2012
spider web…
she straightens her crocheted
bedcover
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: spider (Sheila Windsor)
32/100 Days of Summer
‘Pleiades’ #7 August 2012
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Pleiades –
a lone fisherman
crosses himself
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: star myths (Linda Papanicolau)
31/100 Days of Summer
‘roaring traffic’ #6 August 2012
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roaring traffic
a street kid combs her hair
for school
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: hope (Johnny Baranski)
30/100 Days of Summer
dream pillow for #5 August 2012
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: exploration
#29/100 Days of Summer
My work in Origami Lotus Poetry
I am thrilled for my work to be featured on Kathy Uyen Nguyen’s blog/Live Journal Origami Lotus Poetry. My entry is today, the 5th of August 2012. Many thanks to Kathy for her generous and insightful comments.
Each day all through this month, Kathy features one individual poet, artist, or writer from all over the world. Please visit her blog, read, and leave a comment.
‘tendrils’ #4 August 2012
tendrils –
faraway, a butterfly’s
fluttering wings
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: lightness (prompter: John Carley)
28/100 Days of Summer
‘roaring sea’ #3 August 2012
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roaring sea beyond windswept dunes salt crystals
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: sand (prompter: Vincent Hoarau)
27/100 Days of Summer
‘full moon’ #2 August (already) 2012
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full moon
once again I find myself
on Google
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: full moon
26/100 Days of Summer (still with the prompt ‘keep it under your hat: a narcissistic need/obsession…)
‘lonely hearts club’ #1 August 2012
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lonely hearts club
the weekly meal
oversubscribed
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: heart (Kat Creighton)
‘under my hat’ #31 July 2012
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under my hat
fruit doves
multiply
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: birthday energy
25/100 Days of Summer
‘star-gazing’ #30 July 2012
star-gazing
ice coating of cosmic dust
on my collar
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: cosmic
‘fleeting beauty’ #29 July 2012
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fleeting beauty the rustle of leaves
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: close-up
24/100 Days of Summer
‘sunflowers’ #28 July 2012
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sunflowers
the smell of bales of straw
just after harvest
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: starting with letter s
23/100 Days of Summer
‘still’ #27 July 2012
‘coffee-cup reading’ #26 July 2012
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: upside-down (For the coffee-cup reading, the cup is turned upside-down!)
22/100 Days of Summer
Free Haiga
‘puffballs’ #25 July 2012
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puffballs
a topiary hen guards
the garden
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: mushrooms
21/100 Days of Summer
‘dog days’ #24a July 2012
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20/100 Days of Summer
Free Haiga
‘summer breeze’ #24 July 2012
summer breeze over the mountain the lightness of being
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: light as a feather
19/100 Days of Summer
Free Haiga
‘making jam’ #23 July 2012
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making jam
the blackcurrant stain
on his new shirt
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: surprise
17/100 Days of Summer
International Kukai 4th July 2012
The results of the International Kukai 4th of July Forget-me-nots are out. I am very happy to see one of my haiku reach 2nd place this time round.
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sticky notes
on the fridge door
forget-me-nots
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2nd place
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forget-me-nots
fading on her palm
his phone number
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4 (tie)
…..
cluttered desk—
next to her own picture
forget-me-nots
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9 (tie)
‘heat shield’ #22 July 2012
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heat shield between us so much clay
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: masks
16/100 Days of Summer
‘crossing borders’ #21 July 2012
crossing borders again this recurring dream
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: recurring dream
15/100 Days of Summer
Free Haiga
‘fault finder’ #20 July 2012
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fault finder
under the sun umbrella
a dry patch
2
umbrella plant this dry patch under the umbrella
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: umbrella
14/100 Days of Summer
