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hairline –
wading on the riverbank
terns
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: baldness
Category Archives: NaHaiWriMo
Haiku #13 October 2011
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never too late –
listening to the silence
of the moon
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: late/too late
Haiku #12 October 2011
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such innocence
the soft curve
of your lip
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: innocence
Haiku #11 October 2011
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last kiss
i unplug
the telephone
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: kiss
Haiku #10 October 2011
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rose-tinted clouds
in Broadstairs –
marshmallows
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Haiku #9 October 2011
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missing you –
on the ocean floor
conch shells
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: telephone.
Haiku #8a October 2011
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on this spot
the sun has been –
moonshine
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: loss
Haiku #7a October 2011
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balance –
perched on a wire a dove
and a crow
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt Pris Campbell: beauty
Senryu #6 October 2011
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out of Ithaca –
a poem about
life
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: journey
Haiku #5 October 2011
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moving house –
a snail and the same old
me
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: home
Haiku #4 October 2011
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bamboo screen –
not a single
butterfly
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: butterflies
Haiku #3 October 2011
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gnarled olive
the tenderness of human
love
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: courtship etc
Haiku #2 October 2011
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coming home –
the garden has forgotten
my hand
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: sabi
Haiku #1 October 2011
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sunrise –
the singular beauty
of a rose petal
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011. New prompter, Pris Campbell, prompt: awe
Haiku #30 September 2011
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crocus-
cutting your first
tooth
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: beginnings
Senryu #29 September 2011
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making ends meet –
I sew an extra button
on my waistband
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: ends
Haiku #28 September 2011
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harvest festival
the last apples before
the Fall
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: celebration.
Haiga 27 September 2011
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harvest –
so much food for
the soul
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: harvest.
September challenge 19 Planets.
Haiku #26 September 2011
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autumn circus –
keeping all her juggling-balls
in the air
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: circus
Haiku #25 September 2011
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so many bees
on the Autumn Joy…
Octoberfest
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Autumn Joy = one of the sedum family (flower)
Oktoberfest: oh well…
NaHaiWriMo extension 2011, prompt: autumn flowers.
Haiku #24 September 2011
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school science?
the teacher insists on
cutting up a frog
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; Prompt: children.
Haiga 22 September 2011
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setting sun –
I too let go of
attachments
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Thinking about this haiku, hm, it seems better without the ‘my’. I’ve made the change in the haiku, but not in the haiga.
photo: Hermann Mueller; haiku: Stella Pierides.
NaHaiWriMo extension 2011 prompt: sunset
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September challenge (almost there!)
Haiga #21 September 2011
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repose-
riding
not riding
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long after we’ve gone
this girl will be riding
her whale
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watching poets
come and go
come and go
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peace offering
I check her
age
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The sculpture, the little lake girl, maybe mermaid, riding the whale, in the Kurparkschloesschen, in Herrsching am Ammersee, is by artist Hilde Grotewahl. It can be seen on the promenade, opposite the Schloesschen. More work by this artist in her website here.
(Original title in German: Die kleine Seejungfrau)
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Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September challenge.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Peace
Haiga #20 September 2011
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growing up –
I learn to live
with the tides
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011, prompt: beach.
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September challenge.
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Haiga #19 September 2011
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: animals
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September haiga challenge.
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Haiku #18 September 2011
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your patience –
the way a river
cuts through rock
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NahaiWriMo extension 2011. Prompter: Johnny Baranski, prompt: river(s).
Haiku #17 September 2011
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what I know
each lake has its own
full moon
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This haiku was written in response to a prompt for a haiga using Margaret Rosenberg’s artwork. You can see the whole artworld + haiku (haiga) in here
Haiku #16 September 2011
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through the fog –
mountains of orange
pumpkins
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: mountains
Haiku #15 September 2011
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summer –
this bee
gets lost again
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: Haynaku
Haiku #14a September 2011
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in this asphalt jungle
money grows on trees –
blood moon
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: prompt ‘asphalt jungle’
