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layer after layer
the same old stink –
onion
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NaHaiWriMo prompt (by Yours, truly): onion (s)
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wild winter roses
the impersonal color
in your cheeks
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Haiku involving color
I’d like to share a haiku I read today on the Haiku Foundation site Archive (HaikuNow! winning poem, First Prize for 2011):
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Indian summer
mother dyes her graying hair
the color of straw
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—Tom Painting (USA)
For more winning Haiku and an excellent analysis see the Haiku Foundation Archive
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pines along the shore
and the sea unfolding –
so cold this winter
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I hope this poem conveys something of the difficult situation that Greece is facing…
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Today’s NaHaiWriMo prompt (by Yours truly) as follows:
You are/were on holiday in Greece and this is how your haiku senses sing about /remember it…
By the way, you may know Shamrock, #17 had a Greek focus, with several haiku translated by its editor, Anatoly Kudryavitsky. You can find it here:
From the same issue, I copy a haiku by Giorgos Seferis, transl. Anatoly Kudryavitsky.
empty chairs
the statues returned
to another museum
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winter gusts
again the broken window
rattles
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I copy below today’s prompt for NaHaWriMo that I posted earlier on their FB site. It occurs to me that I should have collected the prompts as I posted them over there in this site too – it is so exciting and an honor to be doing this! Anyway, at least today’s:
December 13 prompt: Write a haiku that tells a story…
Issa:
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mopping sweat–
at his tomb I tell my story
then go
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Trans. David Lanoue. See more here
Also, if you have the time, you might like to have look here
Curious? Interested? Wondering about tomorrow’s prompt? See here.
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reading room
the soft tapping
of laptop keys
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Book(s)/reading
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dissecting her heart
they find the sea and the crater
of an old volcano
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: heart
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one-breath poem
cut short
by a cough
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: breath/air
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a branch of pine
broken in the storms
Christmas tree
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: gift
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lighthouse –
on the way we observe
the inner light
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false log beams
I wonder who is holding up
the ceiling
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NaHaiWriMo prompts (by Stella Pierides, by the way!) lighthouse/beam
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suckling
at the mouth of the river
ocean
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: tongue, mouth
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advent wreath –
wax spreading on the table
counts down the days
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: garland or wreath
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: carpet
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soft afternoon light –
from behind open curtains
purr of a kitten
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: a 5-7-5 haiku
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dance studio –
learning to ignore
wrong moves
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: dance
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crisp
autumn
leaves
musical
chairs
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: write a five-word haiku in five lines
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in synchrony –
only now her silver thimble
fits my finger
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: heirloom/antique tool
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ten-week-old kitten
how the world calls out
to you!
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: relationships
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breaking bread
the sound of glass clinking
against glass
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: thanksgiving
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knowing how we fail
I keep my eye on the ball
pilgrims
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: ball games
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kindness –
collecting the acer
from the grass
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: weekend activity
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once again
she inverts the hourglass –
Cinderella
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: deadlines
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late grapes –
birds making a meal
of the vine
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: feeding birds
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moving house –
my mother’s tea plates clink
inside the box
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(I am finally moving house tomorrow! I did wrap those plates in extra paper!)
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siesta
my sister and I peep through
half-closed shutters
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: childhood memory.
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running along
the rim of the crater –
old soldier
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: veterans
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volcanic ash –
the taste of the market
fallout
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: natural disasters
