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school days –
counting sparrows
in the yard
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: school days
Haiga #5 September 2011
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waiting
for the fish to be caught
frying pan
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The artwork in this haiga was originally a photograph taken by Hermann Mueller in Diessen am Ammersee, a small town on the shores of the lake. Diessen is famous for its Baroque gem of a Church, its community of artists and craftsmen, its yearly world-famous ceramic market, and its fish. Fish nurseries have been flourishing for a number of years here. The couple in the picture is a wood-carved sculpture on the lane leading to the lake promenade (I hope to find out the name of the artist or at least the owner of the sculpture and will be posting it here).
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Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September Challenge: A Haiga a day, or every few days …
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Haiku #5 September 2011
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apple orchard –
on the picnic blanket
spilt wine
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: picnic.
Haiga #4 September 2011
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plain sailing?
once again we run into
trouble
NaHaiWriMo: games. Leaving Ammersee.
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September Challenge: A Haiga a day, or every few days …
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Haiga #3 September 2011
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between us –
this sunset is also
a sunrise
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: sunrise
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September Challenge: A Haiga a day, or every few days …
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Haiga #2a September 2011
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: weekend. Lake Ammersee.
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September Challenge: A Haiga a day, or every few days …
Haiga #2 September 2011
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Having lived by the lake Ammersee for ten years, we are now moving further inland. These photos with haiku/haiku within a photo (haiga) are our way of capturing our last autumn walks by the lake.
(I will be posting them on Flickr too, set: ‘leaving Ammersee.’)
Inspiration also through NaHaiWriMo extension prompt: weekend.
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September Challenge: A Haiga a day, or every few days …
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Haiku #1 September 2011
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September drizzle –
on my wall calendar
the page for August
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011/prompt: calendar
Haiku #31 August 2011
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leaving a trail
of crumbs for the way back
history lesson
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Prompt: photo of wine cellar, NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Haiku #30 August 2011
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shower of sparks
last year‘s pine cones
giving up the ghost
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Prompt: campfire. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Haiku #29 August 2011
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rice fields after the harvest caesium
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refusing to draw
the plow, water buffalo –
caesium fields
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Prompt: environmental concerns haiku. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Haiku #27 August 2011
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just because
the sky is navigable –
thistledown
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Prompt: just because. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Haiku #26 August 2011
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baring his teeth
the hobbling dog –
harpsichord
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This month’s prompter, Terri Hale French, suggested we use a randomly generated haiku by the haiku generator (a JavaScript Haiku application) to work on our own haiku. I did. The result is the haiku above. You can see the original, software generated haiku below:
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harpsichord sickens
dense snowstorms hobbling dogs
wailing, formless
Senryu #25 August 2011
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car boot sale –
on schoolyard tables
grown-up divorce
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Prompt: second hand. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Haiku #24 August 2011
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Aegean heat –
in the animal shelter
an eery silence
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Prompt: natural disasters. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Haiku #23 August 2011
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a goldfinch
lines her nest
thistledown
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Prompt: Photo of thistle with cicadas. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Haiku and Tanka in …
Atlas Poetica, Special Feature From Lime Trees to Eucalypts: A Botany of Tanka, poem #20, (26 August 2011) (Olea europea)
The Mainichi Daily News, 29 August 2011. (‘warm morning’)
escarp, the ‘ selective, twitter-based review of brief poetry and prose’ (‘glacial’)
Red Dragonfly, Melissa Allen’s, excellent mainly haiku blog, (‘dark waters’ and ‘iridescent wings’) and
Asahi Shimbun, in David McMurray’s column The Asahi Haikuist Network, on the 19th of August 2011 (‘grey skies’ and ‘watermelon’)
Haiku #22 August 2011
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glacial
the silence of space
against glass
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In escarp, the ‘ selective, twitter-based review of brief poetry and prose’, posted on 20 August 2011. (#8)
Senryu #20 August 2011
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wireless
the quiet certainty of
old love
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: radio
Haiku #19a August 2011
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flying saucer
the wind carries away
my hat
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: flying
Dragonfly Dreams in Red Dragonfly
All you ever wanted to know about dragonflies … in haiku…in Melissa Allen’s blog Red Dragonfly.
It is a dream of a post with amazing poems, images/artwork. (Don’t miss the video of the dying dragonfly.) The links to the poets and their sites/work is an extra bonus, and I know it is much appreciated.
So, go over there and read! (Delighted that two of my own haiku are included! Thank you, Melissa!)
Three ‘mushroom’ haiku
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mushroom garden
mushroom garden–
in the damp, dark corner
full moon
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magic mushrooms
magic mushrooms—
under the duvet I find
stars
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from the primordium
dark cloud–-
from the primordium
a billowing mushroom
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In Red Dragonfly, Mushroom Harvest, July 2011
Haiku #18 August 2011
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star gazing
I leave my shadow
behind
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011. Prompt: bad haiku (so, how can I write a good haiku without my shadow?)
Haiku #17 August 2011
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teeth skin
hanging loose
a meta-ku
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Prompt: Experimental haiku, NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
For an introduction to experimental haiku, Terri Hale French, this month’s prompter for NaHaiWriMo, suggested George Swede‘s article in Simply Haiku.
Haiku #16 August 2011
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this moussaka
I taste the tomatoes
still ripening
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NaHaiWriMo:humour.
Haiku #15 August 2011
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all that’s left
after the garage sale–
snow blanket
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011/snow
Senryu #14 August 2011
Haiku #13 August 2011
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wallflower—
slowly getting to know
your sense of humor
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Prompt: walls, NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Haiku #12 August 2011
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full moon—
a meteor flies past
incognito
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Prompt: space. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Haiku #11 August 2011
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fireflies–
reflected in her eyes
my childhood
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Prompt: daughters. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
