lakeside heat
under a tree a boy
sticks to his mother
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: surrender (Chrissi Villa)
41/100 Days of Summer
lakeside heat
under a tree a boy
sticks to his mother
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: surrender (Chrissi Villa)
41/100 Days of Summer
through the fog
the smell of fish ahead
of the boat
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: boats (Alison Williams)
40/100 Days of Summer
spring twilight
a newborn’s cry echoes
through the school gym
.
NaHaiWriMo: birth (Christina Nguyen)
38/100 Days of Summer
.
chili and chocolate
the way opposites
attract
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: chili pepper (Paul David Mena)
37/100 Days of Summer
.
the old flame growing old acer
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: love
35/100 Days of Summer
long hours
the heat of the patio
stones
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: holiday activities (Annie Juhl)
.
a thousand times on the lips watermelon
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: watermelon (Stella Pierides)
.
whistling through a blade of grass poems I might write
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: grass (Melissa Allen)
34/100 Days of Summer
tide pool
a sea urchin loses
its spines
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: tide pool (Patty Hardin)
33/100 Days of Summer
“Mexicans Pay in Blood for America’s War on Drugs”
.
tasting metal
the cup fills with news
of war
.
This haiku, linked with the article above, now appears in Haiku News: the personal is the political is the poetical
.
(Vol. 1, No. 30)
spider web…
she straightens her crocheted
bedcover
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: spider (Sheila Windsor)
32/100 Days of Summer
.
Pleiades –
a lone fisherman
crosses himself
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: star myths (Linda Papanicolau)
31/100 Days of Summer
.
roaring traffic
a street kid combs her hair
for school
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: hope (Johnny Baranski)
30/100 Days of Summer
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.
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tendrils –
faraway, a butterfly’s
fluttering wings
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: lightness (prompter: John Carley)
28/100 Days of Summer
.
roaring sea beyond windswept dunes salt crystals
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: sand (prompter: Vincent Hoarau)
27/100 Days of Summer
.
full moon
once again I find myself
on Google
.
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
the weekly meal
oversubscribed
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: heart (Kat Creighton)
star-gazing
ice coating of cosmic dust
on my collar
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: cosmic
.
sunflowers
the smell of bales of straw
just after harvest
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: starting with letter s
23/100 Days of Summer
.
puffballs
a topiary hen guards
the garden
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: mushrooms
21/100 Days of Summer