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permission to print my ears
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Bones: Journal for Contemporary Haiku issue 4, p. 19, June 15, 2014
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
those ground rules
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Prompt: Fly
floating world
the longest day
passed me by
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Float
wild iris –
blurring the edges
of propriety
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Focus
polar vortex how some babies are made
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A Hundred Gourds, 3:3, June 2014, p. 14
cloud drift
my thoughts
follow
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A Hundred Gourds,3:3, June 2014, p. 6
memory –
a feather floats
to the ground
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Feather
full strawberry moon
the market stall
closes early
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Prompt: Full
fog at sea
the espresso maker spits
and sputters
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Fog
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
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
the farmer mows the meadow…
wildflowers in bloom
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Easy
loud cries
from the deer enclosure
her light footfall
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Elk
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 –
elegant euphorbia grown
in my absence
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Prompt: elegant
new tea…
echoes of a dream
just emerging
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prompt: echo
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
bobbing on calm waters…
elemental
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: essence
engine of change
what’s behind the growth
of young leaves
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: engine
squinting to see
what the heart already knows
Solomon’s seal
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: eye
trumpet sound
of his guitar pick
ivory tusk
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: elephant
open air concert –
and then the shawl slips off
her shoulders
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: excitement
all notes
spoken for –
summer jazz
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Prompt: Everlasting
strength
in their tenderness?
bamboo shoots
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Emerald
pointing
the way to a new you
peony blooms
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Enter
So that was it! Inter-/National April Poetry Month 2014 is now over and done with! I hope you all had a great month of reading and writing poetry! I did, and I am particularly pleased to have completed the Writer’s Digest PAD Challenge. I wrote a poem a day (and more)! Now time to wind down (by writing a poem a day, of course!).
I am also pleased to have taken part in the BIG POETRY GIVEAWAY. This was the fifth year it was organized, but the first one in which I participated.
Four people’s names were taken out of my hat – and here they are:
24: Lissa Clouser won Parallels
14: Margo Roby won In the Garden of Absence
20: Linda won The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan
13: Jennifer won Feeding the Doves
Congratulations to the winners.
Please email me giving your postal address, and full name at: stella(at)stellapierides(dot)com
and I will be posting the books to you in a few days.
A big thank you to all those who entered the draw.
A happy and productive, poetry-filled new month!