joined at the hip
the red currants I forgot
to harvest
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Photo taken summer 2014 in a quiet corner of Augsburg.
Prompt: NaHaiWriMo, hyphenate.
Category Archives: aros
‘birthday girl…’
birthday girl…
each year
a little blunter
.
Photo: In the Public Gardens, Bad Woerishofen, ‘the secret capital of Health.’
‘on my walk…’
on my walk…
the number of files
to sort out
‘winding road’ in Haiku 2014
.
winding road to nowhere rituals
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Originally published in Blithe Spirit 23:2, 2013 is now included in
Haiku 2014. Edited by Scott Metz & Lee Gurga, Modern Haiku Press, 2014.
100 notable haiku from 2013 selected by the editors of the award-winning Haiku 21. With an introduction by the editors.
‘hiking —’
hiking —
for a moment the door
swings open
.
I took this photo on a walk round Lake Schliersee, in the Bavarian Alps. Beautiful lake!
half truths…
‘plum blossoms’ in Frogpond
plum blossoms
a handbag mirror
on the garden bench
.
In Frogpond, the Journal of the Haiku Society of America, 37 : 2, summer 2014
‘the cut and thrust’
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the cut and thrust of space travel agency
.
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Inspired by an article in the news section of The Independent newspaper about engineers from the space agency NASA managing to produce tiny amounts of thrust using a microwave engine design that could turn space travel on its head.
‘evening cool’
evening cool
the meadow’s breath
condensing
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: heap
‘server problems…’
server problems…
the meadow’s hot and wild
colours
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: heat up
Photo: walking by the Schmutter in Fischach, Schwabia.
‘golden ratio –’
golden ratio –
songs and salvia wafting
through the cool air
NaHaiWriMo prompt: golden
Photo: International Augsburg Jazz Summer, Botanic Gardens, Augsburg, 2014.
‘raining stars’
raining stars
the glow-in-the-dark set
peeling off
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Glow
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Photo taken during a recent walk up the Lainbach, Benediktbeuern.
‘calm in the morning’
calm in the morning
my new short story
full of gusts
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Gust
‘perigee moon’
perigee moon –
making the wine glass
sing
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: glass
‘mind game’
.
mind game gondola on the Danube
.
Prompt: Game
From the International Danube Festival 2014. Won’t miss this next year!
‘offerings’
offerings…
inside the clam shell
a hermit crab
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: gift
‘cicada shell’ (and Florian)
cicada shell –
a ginger cat’s
loneliness
Prompt: ginger
Florian, who lived in a garden for the first two years of his life, has found a home with us. Welcome, Florian! (From Emile, too)
‘slowing down time…’, ‘sea of clouds’, ‘in the middle’
Responding to three prompts today:
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slowing down time…
she pricks her thumb
on the spindle
.
On the one hand, sleeping beauty, on the other, have a look at this article about time freezing or slowing down under certain circumstances: Click here
.
Prompt: Scifaiku
.
sea of clouds
the catch viewed
in time lapse
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Fish
………………………..
in the middle
of a heart-breaking scene…
rustle of new silk
.
Philippine Haiku Daily prompt: Swish
‘this flyaway hair’
this flyaway hair
those ground rules
.
Prompt: Fly
‘floating world’
floating world
the longest day
passed me by
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Float
‘wild iris –’
wild iris –
blurring the edges
of propriety
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Focus
‘memory’
memory –
a feather floats
to the ground
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Feather
‘full strawberry moon’
full strawberry moon
the market stall
closes early
.
Prompt: Full
‘fog at sea’
fog at sea
the espresso maker spits
and sputters
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Fog
‘folded’
.
folded inside the heart of a meadow
.
Prompt: Fold
‘peony blooms’
peony blooms
the digging fork
I never used
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Fork
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And here is the proof from my garden!
‘lifting the veil ‘
lifting the veil
on the age of the universe –
gamma-ray burst
.
Inspired by the story ‘Light from huge explosion 12 billion years ago reaches Earth’ in Science Daily
‘at the crack of dawn’
at the crack of dawn
light enters my periplus –
house finch in summer
.
Combining 2 prompts:
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Finch
Philippine Haiku: Crack
‘(de)fences’
.
.
.
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Sharing a photograph from my walk on June 1st, 2014. A field in Schwabia.
.
light travel
discarding all
(de)fences
‘just before’
just before
the farmer mows the meadow…
wildflowers in bloom
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Easy
