birthday girl…
each year
a little blunter
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Photo: In the Public Gardens, Bad Woerishofen, ‘the secret capital of Health.’
Tag Archives: haiku
‘winding road’ in Haiku 2014
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winding road to nowhere rituals
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Originally published in Blithe Spirit 23:2, 2013 is now included in
Haiku 2014. Edited by Scott Metz & Lee Gurga, Modern Haiku Press, 2014.
100 notable haiku from 2013 selected by the editors of the award-winning Haiku 21. With an introduction by the editors.
Nine Haiku Moments
‘hiking —’
hiking —
for a moment the door
swings open
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I took this photo on a walk round Lake Schliersee, in the Bavarian Alps. Beautiful lake!
half truths…
‘swollen river’ in Modern Haiku
swollen river —
another deep
regret
‘plum blossoms’ in Frogpond
plum blossoms
a handbag mirror
on the garden bench
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In Frogpond, the Journal of the Haiku Society of America, 37 : 2, summer 2014
‘the cut and thrust’
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the cut and thrust of space travel agency
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Inspired by an article in the news section of The Independent newspaper about engineers from the space agency NASA managing to produce tiny amounts of thrust using a microwave engine design that could turn space travel on its head.
‘evening cool’
evening cool
the meadow’s breath
condensing
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: heap
‘server problems…’
server problems…
the meadow’s hot and wild
colours
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: heat up
Photo: walking by the Schmutter in Fischach, Schwabia.
‘golden ratio –’
golden ratio –
songs and salvia wafting
through the cool air
NaHaiWriMo prompt: golden
Photo: International Augsburg Jazz Summer, Botanic Gardens, Augsburg, 2014.
‘raining stars’
raining stars
the glow-in-the-dark set
peeling off
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Glow
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Photo taken during a recent walk up the Lainbach, Benediktbeuern.
‘calm in the morning’
calm in the morning
my new short story
full of gusts
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Gust
‘perigee moon’
perigee moon –
making the wine glass
sing
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: glass
‘mind game’
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mind game gondola on the Danube
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Prompt: Game
From the International Danube Festival 2014. Won’t miss this next year!
‘offerings’
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
‘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
