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layer after layer
the same old stink –
onion
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NaHaiWriMo prompt (by Yours, truly): onion (s)
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frosted camelia
the dancers‘ skirt
higher and higher
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In Gabi Greve’s Haiku and Happiness. The photo is beautiful, have a look!
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wild winter roses
the impersonal color
in your cheeks
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Haiku involving color
I’d like to share a haiku I read today on the Haiku Foundation site Archive (HaikuNow! winning poem, First Prize for 2011):
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Indian summer
mother dyes her graying hair
the color of straw
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—Tom Painting (USA)
For more winning Haiku and an excellent analysis see the Haiku Foundation Archive
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pines along the shore
and the sea unfolding –
so cold this winter
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I hope this poem conveys something of the difficult situation that Greece is facing…
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Today’s NaHaiWriMo prompt (by Yours truly) as follows:
You are/were on holiday in Greece and this is how your haiku senses sing about /remember it…
By the way, you may know Shamrock, #17 had a Greek focus, with several haiku translated by its editor, Anatoly Kudryavitsky. You can find it here:
From the same issue, I copy a haiku by Giorgos Seferis, transl. Anatoly Kudryavitsky.
empty chairs
the statues returned
to another museum
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winter gusts
again the broken window
rattles
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I copy below today’s prompt for NaHaWriMo that I posted earlier on their FB site. It occurs to me that I should have collected the prompts as I posted them over there in this site too – it is so exciting and an honor to be doing this! Anyway, at least today’s:
December 13 prompt: Write a haiku that tells a story…
Issa:
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mopping sweat–
at his tomb I tell my story
then go
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Trans. David Lanoue. See more here
Also, if you have the time, you might like to have look here
Curious? Interested? Wondering about tomorrow’s prompt? See here.
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reading room
the soft tapping
of laptop keys
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Book(s)/reading
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dissecting her heart
they find the sea and the crater
of an old volcano
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: heart
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driving rain
through the porthole
sight of land
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painting by Maria Pierides (www.mariapierides.co.uk)
haiku by Stella Pierides
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: weather/painting by Maria Pierides: Driving rain
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one-breath poem
cut short
by a cough
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: breath/air
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a branch of pine
broken in the storms
Christmas tree
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: gift
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lighthouse –
on the way we observe
the inner light
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false log beams
I wonder who is holding up
the ceiling
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NaHaiWriMo prompts (by Stella Pierides, by the way!) lighthouse/beam
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suckling
at the mouth of the river
ocean
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: tongue, mouth
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advent wreath –
wax spreading on the table
counts down the days
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: garland or wreath
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slow stream
a heron stretches his beak
towards the sky
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soft rain
how benevolence
works
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I am very pleased that these two haiku were included in the inaugural issue of A Hundred Gourds, alongside contributions by many fine poets. A Hundred Gourds is a new international journal for haiku, haibun, haiga and more, edited by Lorin Ford and a team of distinguished poets. Congratulations to everyone on the team, and many happy returns!
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: carpet
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soft afternoon light –
from behind open curtains
purr of a kitten
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: a 5-7-5 haiku
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dance studio –
learning to ignore
wrong moves
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: dance
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crisp
autumn
leaves
musical
chairs
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: write a five-word haiku in five lines
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in synchrony –
only now her silver thimble
fits my finger
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: heirloom/antique tool
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ten-week-old kitten
how the world calls out
to you!
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: relationships
Living in Germany and England, while having Greek roots, I thought I could lay claim to an international outlook!
Then came the call from the hostess of LanguagePlace #12, Linda Hofke, to produce work on the theme of food. Armed with my ‘search’ button, I looked for my food haiku and found too many to mention in one post! I mean hundreds … My choice here is limited to (gulp) 17. Some of them either published, or posted on my or other poets’ blogs. But there was a surprise in this for me. The ingredients in the haiku are not that diverse, not that varied! Perhaps I am less international than I’d like to claim. What do you think?
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celery crunch –
I always knew you threw
the dice
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beets –
and he wonders how he got
kidney stones
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pumpkin –
the car park attendant scoffs
at my car
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in this rain
even the eggplant weeps –
billowing clouds
(These haiku appeared in Sketchbook 6-3, May/June 2011, in the Haiku thread/Editor’s Choice).
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tomato –
sometimes even stars are not
enough
Featured in Melissa Allen’s Red Dragonfly: Across the Haikuverse no 20
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through the fog –
mountains of orange
pumpkins
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mushroom garden –
in the damp, dark corner
full moon
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magic mushrooms –
under the duvet I find
stars
Nos 7 and 8 featured by Melissa Allen, of Red Dragonfly, together with other haiku, in her blog post ‘Mushroom Harvest.’
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pale moon –
sugar crystals travelling
south
Featured in Melissa Allen’s Red Dragonfly: Across the Haikuverse, no 23
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ruby wine –
the song of a canary
on my tongue
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wild goose chase –
even the duvet tries
to fly south
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summer cool –
the blossom lingers
in the cherry
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vesper bell
on the tree so many
pomegranates
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chamomile –
drinking the fields
from my teacup
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so here is the tree
of the liquid gold Homer spilt
so liberally—
between epic verses and
bare rocks it grows its olives
Greece
Olea europea
in Atlas Poetica Special Feature From Lime Trees to Eucalypts: A Botany of Tanka, poem #20, (26 August 2011) [tanka]
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full moon tea
my book of beasts
lies open
Featured in Aubrie Cox’s Yay Words‚ Tea with Trolls
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I guess after all this food the next haiku is a must:
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super moon 2034
robotic arm
brushes my teeth
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breaking bread
the sound of glass clinking
against glass
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: thanksgiving
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grilled sardines
beyond the pines
whispering sea
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: holiday food
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knowing how we fail
I keep my eye on the ball
pilgrims
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: ball games
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off the isle of Skye –
two whales break
the surface
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: joyous event
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kindness –
collecting the acer
from the grass
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: weekend activity
