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‘autumn loneliness’ #4 October 2012

autumn loneliness —
checking whether flames
defy gravity
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: gravity
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I have been working on a micropoetry collection about loneliness, and the capacity to be alone, titled In the Garden of Absence. This poem is not included in the collection, but fits well with the theme. Enjoy!

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Per Diem Haiku on the theme of Hands

This October, continuing the The Haiku Foundation Per Diem: Daily Haiku series, Ruth Yarrow packs a punch with a collection to delight the heart.

Ruth’s wonderfully touching, and humorous collection is “Hands-On.”  Hands? Yes, hands. This is what she offers by way of an introduction:

“We are a species heavily dependent on our eyes, especially for connection with others and world around us.  But our hands also connect, and that connection often reaches the heart.  Right now my beloved mother-in-law, who doesn’t see well, is dying, and when you approach her, she reaches out her thin hand to connect.  These haiku about hands touch emotion.  They range from humor, as in Randy Brooks’ hand in the cookie jar, to sadness, as in Cherie Hunter Day feeling the weight and warmth of her dying dog’s collar. They include fear, as in John Stevenson’s shiver at a warm hand before diagnosis, sex, as in Sari Grandstaff’s total attention to the hand on her thigh, and even exasperation or anger, as in Kenneth Elba Carrier’s deaf man grabbing at the other’s hands.”

You can read the whole post by clicking here

Gabi Greve has a number of haiku on Hands too; see her blog Haiku and Happiness, where she features the THF Per Diem on Hands. Please click here

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August 2012 NaHaiWriMo

August was a great month for the NaHaiWriMo community. Every day, each single day of the month, a different haiku poet offered a prompt. Wonderful haiku were written, and shared, and the month whizzed by before we knew it. Well, before I knew it. But we have the poems; and the prompts.

The list of the thirty one prompts for the month of August can be found by clicking here

For the poems, alas, you have to go back to the Facebook timeline…Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an easier way?

100 Days of Summer, aros, Blog, Haiku, NaHaiWriMo

‘summer epic’ #13 September 2012

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summer epic —

a baobab tree

on the Southbank

southbank fabric tree

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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Mythology

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2nd annual 30 Days of Haiga, 19 Planets blog (Read Rick Daddario’s prose piece about his 14/30 Days of Haiga!)

Inspired by the fabric tree, part of the summer 2012 Festival of the World, Southbank Centre. Info about the fabric tree here

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‘heart and eyes’ #6 September 2012

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heart and eyes –

how the soul seeks

compassion

Augsburg Dom

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NaHaiWriMo prompt:  from fav song

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2nd Annual 30 Days of Haiga

From one of my very favorite arias: “Have mercy, my God,” St Matthew Passion, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPAiH9XhTHc

 

5 September 2012

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time check –

a few more berries

on the bush

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NaHaiWriMo prompt: joy(s)

56/100 Days of Summer

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‘The Five Elements’ on THF Per Diem

A new collection of poems starts today on The Haiku Foundation homepage. Kala Ramesh is the Per Diem: Daily Haiku editor for September 2012. She offers the following by way of an introduction to the collection:

“The Five Elements

The Hindus and the Buddhists believe that all Creation— including human beings— is composed of five essential elements. When death occurs, everything is transposed into these elements of nature, thus balancing the cycle of evolution.

The elements and their associated sense perceptions are:

Ether – Akasha – space / sound

Wind – Vayu – sound & touch

Fire – Agni – sound, touch & form

Water – Jalam – sound, touch, form & flavour

Earth – Prithvi – sound, touch, form, flavour & smell

This classification is woven into the fabric of our day-to-day activities, and widely used in all our art forms, including poetry, literature, dance, music and painting. The haiku poems showcased here might not appear in the order I had originally arranged them, but you could use your ingenuity and guesswork to ‘sense’ how many of these elements are present in the haiku, when you read them.”

I am looking forward to this daily treat for the whole month, and beyond… If you enjoy haiku, you’ll love this.

For a new poem each day on the Foundation homepage (lower right-hand corner) click here

You can also follow THF Per Diem on Twitter, @haikufound, for a daily Per Diem-related tweet, in addition to Foundation news and announcements.