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night owl
the garden gnome’s smile
lit up by the moon
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: moon
Category Archives: aros
‘ripe watermelon’ #4 June 2012
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ripe watermelon –
under thicker skin
melting sweetness
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NaHaiWriMo
‘peony’ #3 June 2012
peony
no shame
in your beauty
NaHaiWriMo prompt: something positive
Source of inspiration and image: Photograph by Kitty Rogers, of Whimsical Photography. Her wonderful photos can be bought from her shop on etsy (I got to find out about Kitty Rogers via Lisa Orgler’s pins, on Pinterest)
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‘eye scan’ #2 June 2012
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eye scan
the number of sunsets
on my retina
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: something wrong
‘no one home’ #1 June 2012
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no one home
yet the woodpecker
keeps knocking
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: bird/animal
‘after the rain’ #31 May 2012
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after the rain
how the lilac turns
heads
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: smell
‘soil and soul’ #30 May 2012
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soil and soul
footprints on Eigg’s
singing sands
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: found poem
Inspiration/found:
“Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power” book about the community of Eigg purchasing its land.
“…its quartz beach, called the “singing sands” (Tràigh a’ Bhìgeil) on account of the squeaking noise it makes if walked on when dry.”
Michael Dylan Welch’s question (on FB) about islands we visited reminded me of my trip to Eigg
‘touching base’ #29 May 2012
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touching base
I let the anthill
be
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: touch
’round question’ #28 May 2012
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round question –
what is a watermelon
without its seeds?
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: circle/spiral (round)
‘Sunday’ #27 May 2012
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Sunday
after hovering all day
the dragonfly rests
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: dragonfly
‘sunset’ #25 May 2012
‘grandmother’s drawer’ in the CKK #34
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grandmother’s drawer
a dried rose and a thimble
full of soil
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CKK #34: grandmother
‘poet’s journey’ #23 May 2012
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poet’s journey
filling your bowl
with stars
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: For Hortensia Anderson
‘fountain pen’ #22 May 2012
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fountain pen I drink your words
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: ink
‘cracking the code’ photo haiku #21 May 2012
cracking the code
how the cosmic song
resonates
#20 May 2012 ‘blue mountains’ and ‘blue rinse’
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blue mountains
believing in the here
and now
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blue rinse the time it takes
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: blue
haiku #19 May 2012
haiku #18 May 2012
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in the mirror world
my reflection smiles back
bamboo shoots
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: mirror
‘Instead of’ (Asahi, 4 May 2012)
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Instead of
cherry-blossom-viewing
she counts syllables
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My poem in the Asahi Haikuist Network, From the Notebook, http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku/ 4 May 2012
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haiku #16 May 2012
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rolling the tense head of his timpani set
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: drum
haiku #15 May 2012
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cloistered garden
scent of roses drifts
over the wall
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: rose(s)
haiku #14 May 2012
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south wind
a ball rolls across
the lawn
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: green
haiku #13 May 2012 and Poet Page on THF Registry!
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Today, an old poem from 2011:
spilling its seeds
a broken pomegranate
bleeds for luck
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First appeared in Unfold magazine, 2011
(NaHaiWriMo prompt: broken)
And the great news:
My poet page is up on The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Registry site. It can be seen by clicking here
Many thanks to Billie Wilson for creating it and putting it up.
haiku #12 May 2012
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sundial
waiting for the clouds
to move along
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: sun/shine
senryu #11 May 2012
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dirty dishes
even after finger-licking
food
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: meal
haiku #10 May 2012
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ballgame prayer
knowing where
the portal lies
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: ball
Inspired by article in Science Daily: see here
haiku #9 May 2012
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my garden
the grass longer
since yesterday
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: power
haiku #8 May 2012
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orange flowers
how this bee loses
her head
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: orange
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Included in Gabi Greve‘s blog Washoku Japanese Culture and Cuisine
haiku #7 May 2012
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fear not
these open skies –
trembling leaves
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: fear
haiku #6 May 2012
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perigee
the heather moor holds
its breath
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: intimacy
