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)
‘do stars also’
do stars also
get stirred up by
the south wind?
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Poem posted on FB: NaHaiWriMo and scifaiku. Photo taken in Gravesend, Kent, UK, 2014.
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In VerSuch 1.07.2014
“VerSuch … das projekt gendai haiku“, the German-language journal aiming to showcase the state and development of modern haiku, edited by Dietmar Tauchner and Ralf Broeker, is now online. Pleased to see it includes two of my haiku. Translated by Ralf Broeker, they can be found by scrolling down the July 2014 issue. They can also be read here:
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Nationen im Krieg
die Mathematik des Glaubens
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immer Wildrosen in ihren geheimen Tiefen
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http://gendai-haiku.blogspot.de
1.07.2014 Wartende wir
‘permission’
‘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
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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
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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
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Float
‘wild iris –’
wild iris –
blurring the edges
of propriety
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Focus
Tanka in “Bright Stars, Vol. 3”
Pleased to have seven of my tanka appear in Bright Stars, vol. 3, 2014, the organic tanka anthology produced by M. Kei of Atlas Poetica. This is what this anthology is about:
“Bright Stars is devoted to five line poetry—tanka, waka, kyoka, gogyoshi, shaped tanka, tanka sequence, tanka prose, collaborative tanka—any form based on the short, lyrical, five part poem originally from Japan.”
And
“Bright Stars focuses on the Japanese aesthetic of ‘akarui’ – bright, loud, energetic, urban, exciting, and experimental.”
Here is the Press Release with more information, sample poems, and how to buy this book. I’ve ordered mine!
‘polar vortex’
polar vortex how some babies are made
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A Hundred Gourds, 3:3, June 2014, p. 14
‘cloud drift’ (again!)
cloud drift
my thoughts
follow
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A Hundred Gourds,3:3, June 2014, p. 6
‘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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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light travel
discarding all
(de)fences
‘cloud drift’ and ‘polar vortex’ in A Hundred Gourds
Delighted to see two of my poems:
‘cloud drift’ and
‘polar vortex’
in A Hundred Gourds … (pp. 6 and 14, 3:3, June 2014) together with so many wonderful poems!
Check them out here and here
‘just before’
just before
the farmer mows the meadow…
wildflowers in bloom
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Easy
‘loud cries’
loud cries
from the deer enclosure
her light footfall
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Elk
‘effortless’
stories
emerging from their cocoons…
effortless
Rebetiko is the urban blues of the old port areas of the Eastern Mediterranean – Smyrna/Izmir, Istanbul, Syros, Piraeus, and Thessaloniki. If you happen to be in London, you can listen to this soulful music most Monday evenings at the JCR of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, lovingly performed by members of the SOAS Rebetiko Band. SOAS Rebetiko emerged out of music seminars organized by Ed Emery. It is a free event, you only need to sign-in as a visitor at the School entrance/Porter’s desk.
This year, a new event is being organzed by the rebet lovers: The Rebetiko Carnival.
Check it out, and if you can go, go!
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Effort
stingy sap —
stingy sap –
elegant euphorbia grown
in my absence
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Prompt: elegant
‘new tea’
new tea…
echoes of a dream
just emerging
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prompt: echo
‘The Snail’
evening downpour –
uplifting Matisse
and The Snail
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: even(ing)
Click the link to see Matisse’s ‘The Snail’
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/matisse-the-snail-t00540
‘this small boat’
this small boat
bobbing on calm waters…
elemental
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: essence
‘engine of change’
engine of change
what’s behind the growth
of young leaves
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: engine
‘squinting to see’
squinting to see
what the heart already knows
Solomon’s seal
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: eye
