Japanese Gardens
the acer’s deep
bow
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: local building
(my response to the prompt
is a bit remote, but, there you go!)
haiku: Stella Pierides; photo: Hermann Mueller
From the Augsburg Botanic Gardens.
See also here:
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ant lines
resolving to get
a compass
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt, word generator: compass
.
rain haiku
I write without
an umbrella
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: rain
.
transit of Venus –
touching the polka dots
on her dress
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: touch
.
melon flower
slowly peeling back
time
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: older person/male
.
between
this mountain peak and the next
breathing space
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: the space between
.
eating rhubarb
faster than it grows
young love
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: plant/growing things
.
peony blooms
the sound of petals
unfurling
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: quiet sound
.
night owl
the garden gnome’s smile
lit up by the moon
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: moon
.
ripe watermelon –
under thicker skin
melting sweetness
.
NaHaiWriMo
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
the number of sunsets
on my retina
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: something wrong
.
no one home
yet the woodpecker
keeps knocking
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: bird/animal
.
after the rain
how the lilac turns
heads
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: smell
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soil and soul
footprints on Eigg’s
singing sands
.
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
I let the anthill
be
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: touch
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round question –
what is a watermelon
without its seeds?
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: circle/spiral (round)
.
Sunday
after hovering all day
the dragonfly rests
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: dragonfly
.
poet’s journey
filling your bowl
with stars
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: For Hortensia Anderson
.
fountain pen I drink your words
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: ink
cracking the code
how the cosmic song
resonates
.1
blue mountains
believing in the here
and now
.
2
blue rinse the time it takes
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: blue
.
in the mirror world
my reflection smiles back
bamboo shoots
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: mirror
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writing on the wall
the drum beat grows
faster
écriture sur le mur
le rythme du tambour s’accélère
rapidement
.
scriere pe perete –
ritmul tobei se accelerează
cu rapiditate
.
Virginia Popescu posts paintings on her FB page and invites poets to write a haiku on them. I wrote this haiku to go with Rembrandt‘s Balthazar’s Feast, and Virginia translated it into French and Romanian! Thanks, Virginia!
It is also a response to the NaHaiWriMo prompt: drums
.
rolling the tense head of his timpani set
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: drum
.
cloistered garden
scent of roses drifts
over the wall
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: rose(s)
.
south wind
a ball rolls across
the lawn
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: green
