From the Tall Ships Festival, 2014, Greenwich, London
nearly autumn
memories of indigo
seas
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Category Archives: NaHaiWriMo
‘lunchtime concert’
St Martin-in-the-Fields lunchtime concerts are a treat! Check them out here
NaHaiWriMo prompt: incognito
Nine Haiku Moments
‘icon’
‘from the source’
Photo: In front of the Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
Prompt: NaHaiWriMo, hint.
‘heave and landslip’
heave an landslip
the clay’s slow
breathing
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: landslip
‘joined at the hip’
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.
‘on my walk…’
on my walk…
the number of files
to sort out
‘hiking —’
hiking —
for a moment the door
swings open
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I took this photo on a walk round Lake Schliersee, in the Bavarian Alps. Beautiful lake!
half truths…
‘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
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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
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: glass
‘mind game’
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mind game gondola on the Danube
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Prompt: Game
From the International Danube Festival 2014. Won’t miss this next year!
‘offerings’
offerings…
inside the clam shell
a hermit crab
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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
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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
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Prompt: Scifaiku
.
sea of clouds
the catch viewed
in time lapse
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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
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Prompt: Fly
‘floating world’
floating world
the longest day
passed me by
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Float
‘wild iris –’
wild iris –
blurring the edges
of propriety
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Focus
‘memory’
memory –
a feather floats
to the ground
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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
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Fog
‘folded’
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folded inside the heart of a meadow
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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!
‘at the crack of dawn’
at the crack of dawn
light enters my periplus –
house finch in summer
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Combining 2 prompts:
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Finch
Philippine Haiku: Crack
