New Year’s Eve –
at the marble cherub’s feet
mother and baby
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: marble
Category Archives: aros
‘New Year’s Eve’ #30 December 2012
New Year’s Eve
a heart drawn in the softest
of pencils
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: pencils
‘full cold moon’ #29 December 2012
full cold moon
a blue tiger sneaks in
through the back door
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: tiger blue
‘skimming’ #28 December 2012
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skimming the bubbles off the broth flow tide
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: bubbles
‘chilly days’ #27 December 2012
chilly days
the absence of croaking
from the pond
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: frogs, but without mentioning them!
‘Boxing Day hunt’ and ‘smell of roast’ #25, 26 December 2012
Boxing Day hunt —
ducks on the Danube line-up
for breadcrumbs
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smell of roast
in the long distance call –
Christmas day
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For 12 Days of christmas at Gillena Cox‘s Lunch break blogspot (ongoing posts)
‘Christmas Day’ #25 December 2012
Christmas Day —
I stuff the chicken with
granny’s recipe
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: company
Season’s Greetings and book voucher
Season’s Greetings to all my friends. May your coming year be filled with beautiful moments!
Thank you all for the inspiration, company, and support through 2012.

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In case you have time over the holidays, here is a coupon (code: FB59R — valid from 25–29 December 2012) for a free e-book version of my “In the Garden of Absence” from Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/263461
‘year’s end’ #23 December 2012
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year’s end
the screech of tires
on wet tarmac
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: loud
‘this train’ and ‘end of the world’ #21 December 2012
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this train doesn’t stop longest night
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end of the world typo the last mi(n)ce pie
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: 1: monoku/fest; 2: mice
‘Hells Angel’ #18 December 2012
Hells Angel
the breadcrumbs
in his beard
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: motorcycle
‘snow melt’ #17 December 2012
‘on home turf’ and other winter poems
on home turf-
feeding watermelon seeds
to the hens
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“On Home Turf,” Haiga, in “A Baker’s Dozen,” issue 4, 15 December 2012
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a fig is not a fig without your mouth
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a pyromaniac’s dream on top of the world
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In “Bones: Journal for Contemporary Haiku,” No 1, 15 December 2012
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at the bottom of the sea the bottom of the sea
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raining stars
how the begging tin
sounds
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in “Presence” #47, December 2012
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past her nails
a truth worth
holding on to
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in Notes From The Gean, #14, p. 28, December 2012
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shooting star –
a baby slithers out
of the womb
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frost bite
the winter bares its teeth
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In “A Blackbird Sings: a small stone anthology”
edited by Fiona Robyn & Kaspalita Thompson, 2012
‘wordless poem’ #15 December 2012
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wordless poem sharing the silence of fallen leaves
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: seeking solace
‘outside the box’ #14 December 2012
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outside the box more of the same crunchy snow
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: outside the box
‘without my glasses’ #13 December 2012
without my glasses
the lit candelabra –
blazing star
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: candle
‘wall calendar’ #11 December 2012
wall calendar –
each year Mount Olympus
a little farther
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Mountain
‘a snow blanket’ #10 December 2012
a snow blanket
covers the sun collectors –
my old bike
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: twin wishes
‘sizzling roast’ #9 December 2012
sizzling roast –
I become
a shark
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: shark
‘resting the needles’ #8 December 2012
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resting the needles –
a half-finished poem
hangs from my lips
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resting the needles –
I search the mirror
for clues
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Playing with Gabi Greve‘s kigo for the day: ‘resting the needles’! See the entry in the World Kigo Database
NaHaiWriMo prompt: mirror
‘alone’ #6 December 2012
alone —
the kitten’s paw prints
in the snow
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: a haiku beginning with a word starting with letter L – well, it is either L1: ‘lonely,’ or ‘l’ is the second letter of the first word! I think ‘alone’ works better…
‘advent wreath’ #5 December 2012
advent wreath
the first candle already down
to a stump
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: ornament(s)
Isn’t time passing quickly? Even the candle in my advent wreath burned down already. For those not familiar with this kind of wreath: it is a wreath that sits on the centre of the table (in this case my table) with four, in some cases five, candles; one for each of the weeks of advent. Each week one more candle is lit, until we reach Christmas! At this rate of burning however, there won’t be much to light on that last Sunday!
‘crawling out’ #3 December 2012
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crawling out of its larval skin first love
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: dragonfly love
“bubbling stream” #2 December 2012
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bubbling stream her first syllables
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: baby’s first word
The picture is from today’s walk along the river Schmutter, near Neusaess.
“sign language” #1 December 2012
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sign language
his hand
on his heart
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: sign
‘ice streams’ #30 November 2012
ice streams
the glacier’s last
stand
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: endings
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Inspired also by the beautiful photographs in The Guardian here
“flood tide” #29 November 2012
flood tide
her canvas shoe sinks
into the snow
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: tide
“full moon” #28 November 2012
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full moon beyond the horizon her frozen stare
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: full moon
“the Little Mermaid’s” #27 November 2012
the Little Mermaid’s
return to the sea –
flowering cactus
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: allusion to poem, song, book
‘tongue-tied’ #26 November 2012
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tongue-tied after the penny drops
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: silence
