All you ever wanted to know about dragonflies … in haiku…in Melissa Allen’s blog Red Dragonfly.
It is a dream of a post with amazing poems, images/artwork. (Don’t miss the video of the dying dragonfly.) The links to the poets and their sites/work is an extra bonus, and I know it is much appreciated.
So, go over there and read! (Delighted that two of my own haiku are included! Thank you, Melissa!)
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mushroom garden
mushroom garden–
in the damp, dark corner
full moon
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magic mushrooms
magic mushrooms—
under the duvet I find
stars
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from the primordium
dark cloud–-
from the primordium
a billowing mushroom
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In Red Dragonfly, Mushroom Harvest, July 2011
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star gazing
I leave my shadow
behind
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011. Prompt: bad haiku (so, how can I write a good haiku without my shadow?)
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teeth skin
hanging loose
a meta-ku
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Prompt: Experimental haiku, NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
For an introduction to experimental haiku, Terri Hale French, this month’s prompter for NaHaiWriMo, suggested George Swede‘s article in Simply Haiku.
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this moussaka
I taste the tomatoes
still ripening
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NaHaiWriMo:humour.
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all that’s left
after the garage sale–
snow blanket
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011/snow
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wallflower—
slowly getting to know
your sense of humor
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Prompt: walls, NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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full moon—
a meteor flies past
incognito
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Prompt: space. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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fireflies–
reflected in her eyes
my childhood
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Prompt: daughters. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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this heart urchin shell half-buried in the sandbed
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Prompt: Write a one line haiku.
Terri Hale French, this month’s prompter for NaHaiWriMo extension 2011, suggested an article from Simply Haiku, to help us orient ourselves. Really helpful article, by William Higginson, can be read here.
For images of heart urchins click here. Pages and pages of them…
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on my doorstep–
this old city in flames
licking its wounds
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Well, even though I am not in London at present, as I live there for part of the year… a ku from my watching the news.
Prompt: front porch. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011
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frayed at the edges
this sunflower had too much
sun
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Prompt: sunflower. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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pale moon—
sugar crystals travelling
south
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Prompt: tired/sleep. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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Hot dog
when hunger gets the better
of me
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Prompt: dog. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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ruby wine—
the song of a canary
on my tongue
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Prompt: beverage. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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ebb and tide—
our holiday against
the horizon
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Prompt: driftwood haiga. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011. Written for photo by Terry Hale French.
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sun-kissed Aegean
gulls swoop where the boat
has been
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Prompt: journey. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
I have been reading an article published in Notes from the Gean, The Intentional Ellipses: Haiku and its Relationship to Space, by Tracy Koretsky, and so experimenting with space in this haiku. While not a new article – it was first published in Triplopia, the excellent internet journal no longer available online – it had escaped me first time round. I am so glad Notes from the Gean published it now. I am going back to reading and trying out more space haiku…
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life’s journey
I count the years
in my neck
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Prompt: journey. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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beach combing–
amongst pebbles a muddy
Drachma
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Prompt: coins. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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corn silk—
still searching for the face
under all this hair
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Prompt: child/childhood. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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letters
learning the abc
of thanking you
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Prompt: gratitude. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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mockingbird
still I kept the Athenian
accent
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Mockingbird: Mimus polyglottos!
You can hear this amazing bird mimic other birds, squeaky gates, machines etc here
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olive press—
how else do you write your
haiku?
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Prompt: trees. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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spring morning–
bluebird, is that my hair
in your nest?
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Prompt: birds. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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cat nap–
on my desk the mouse still
on the mouse mat
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Prompt: cat NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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spring ephemerals—
now my roots need colour
often
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Prompt: spring ephemerals. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Where can I find mushrooms, some of my readers have been asking me. A strange question, especially since I am allergic to mushrooms. I think they may have been smelling Melissa Allen’s mushroom garden, across the haikuverse. If you too are interested in mushrooms, you are invited to visit and even pick some. Please scroll down to find mine! The link? Here it is
two haystacks-- in the fields the same old story
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Prompt: New Year. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Haiku by Stella Pierides, Photo by Hermann Mueller.
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waiting for the peach
I miss the blue of the sky—
summer harvest
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Prompt: soft fruit. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
