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this heart urchin shell half-buried in the sandbed
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Prompt: Write a one line haiku.
Terri Hale French, this month’s prompter for NaHaiWriMo extension 2011, suggested an article from Simply Haiku, to help us orient ourselves. Really helpful article, by William Higginson, can be read here.
For images of heart urchins click here. Pages and pages of them…
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on my doorstep–
this old city in flames
licking its wounds
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Well, even though I am not in London at present, as I live there for part of the year… a ku from my watching the news.
Prompt: front porch. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011
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frayed at the edges
this sunflower had too much
sun
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Prompt: sunflower. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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pale moon—
sugar crystals travelling
south
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Prompt: tired/sleep. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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Hot dog
when hunger gets the better
of me
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Prompt: dog. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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ruby wine—
the song of a canary
on my tongue
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Prompt: beverage. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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ebb and tide—
our holiday against
the horizon
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Prompt: driftwood haiga. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011. Written for photo by Terry Hale French.
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sun-kissed Aegean
gulls swoop where the boat
has been
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Prompt: journey. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
I have been reading an article published in Notes from the Gean, The Intentional Ellipses: Haiku and its Relationship to Space, by Tracy Koretsky, and so experimenting with space in this haiku. While not a new article – it was first published in Triplopia, the excellent internet journal no longer available online – it had escaped me first time round. I am so glad Notes from the Gean published it now. I am going back to reading and trying out more space haiku…
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life’s journey
I count the years
in my neck
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Prompt: journey. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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beach combing–
amongst pebbles a muddy
Drachma
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Prompt: coins. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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corn silk—
still searching for the face
under all this hair
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Prompt: child/childhood. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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letters
learning the abc
of thanking you
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Prompt: gratitude. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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mockingbird
still I kept the Athenian
accent
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Mockingbird: Mimus polyglottos!
You can hear this amazing bird mimic other birds, squeaky gates, machines etc here
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olive press—
how else do you write your
haiku?
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Prompt: trees. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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spring morning–
bluebird, is that my hair
in your nest?
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Prompt: birds. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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cat nap–
on my desk the mouse still
on the mouse mat
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Prompt: cat NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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spring ephemerals—
now my roots need colour
often
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Prompt: spring ephemerals. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Where can I find mushrooms, some of my readers have been asking me. A strange question, especially since I am allergic to mushrooms. I think they may have been smelling Melissa Allen’s mushroom garden, across the haikuverse. If you too are interested in mushrooms, you are invited to visit and even pick some. Please scroll down to find mine! The link? Here it is
two haystacks-- in the fields the same old story
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Prompt: New Year. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Haiku by Stella Pierides, Photo by Hermann Mueller.
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waiting for the peach
I miss the blue of the sky—
summer harvest
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Prompt: soft fruit. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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vernal pool—
they trend on Twitter all
morning
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Prompt: pool, puddle. NahaiWriMo extension 2011.
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Aegean moon—
still hot the pebble shifts with
the tide
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Prompt: moon. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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wild goose chase—
even the duvet tries
to fly south
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Prompt: quilt. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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gale force winds—
I steer my desk through a dark
ink swell
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Prompt: wind/stillness. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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pins and needles—
sparkling stars
in my finger tips
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Prompt: stars. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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crisp snow—
I dream of a hunted
deer
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Prompt: Snow. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
Melissa Allen, of ‘Red Dragonfly‘ featured my haiku ‘tomato’ and ‘silkworm’ in her regular column Across the Haikuverse, No. 20 and No. 21 editions, respectively. An honour to be included there. What more could a haijin want?
Haiku buzz: My haiku came 6th and 7th in the Sketchbook Kukai (peer-judged contest) in the May/June 2011 issue. Sketchbook is a ‘Journal for Eastern and Western Short Forms.’ I am very pleased with the result; this was my first ever kukai! Watch this space…
Two of my haiku on the thread ‘Vegetables’ set by the editors of Sketchbook magazine, were picked, together with others, to be featured in the Editor’s Choice haiku thread. They were also featured in the Guest Editor’s Choice, of the same edition. You can read the haiku in my blog here.
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sea of green–
even my trike
warms to it
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Prompt: sea/seaside. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
