peony
no shame
in your beauty
NaHaiWriMo prompt: something positive
Source of inspiration and image: Photograph by Kitty Rogers, of Whimsical Photography. Her wonderful photos can be bought from her shop on etsy (I got to find out about Kitty Rogers via Lisa Orgler’s pins, on Pinterest)
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eye scan
the number of sunsets
on my retina
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: something wrong
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no one home
yet the woodpecker
keeps knocking
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: bird/animal
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after the rain
how the lilac turns
heads
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: smell
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soil and soul
footprints on Eigg’s
singing sands
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: found poem
Inspiration/found:
“Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power” book about the community of Eigg purchasing its land.
“…its quartz beach, called the “singing sands” (Tràigh a’ Bhìgeil) on account of the squeaking noise it makes if walked on when dry.”
Michael Dylan Welch’s question (on FB) about islands we visited reminded me of my trip to Eigg
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touching base
I let the anthill
be
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: touch
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round question –
what is a watermelon
without its seeds?
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: circle/spiral (round)
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Sunday
after hovering all day
the dragonfly rests
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: dragonfly
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reticence —
how rose petals curl
back
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Shiki Kukai, May 2012 kigo: rose(s)
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dandelion clock —
getting up when
it’s time
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Shiki Kukai, May 2012 free theme: morning habits
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grandmother’s drawer
a dried rose and a thimble
full of soil
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CKK #34: grandmother
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poet’s journey
filling your bowl
with stars
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: For Hortensia Anderson
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fountain pen I drink your words
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: ink
cracking the code
how the cosmic song
resonates
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blue mountains
believing in the here
and now
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blue rinse the time it takes
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: blue
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in the mirror world
my reflection smiles back
bamboo shoots
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: mirror
blue moon
why am I reminded
of Mount Fuji?
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in French:
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lune bleue –
pourquoi me rappelle-t-elle
le mont Fuji ?
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and in Romanian :
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lună albastră
de ce îmi aminteşte
de Muntele Fuji ?
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I wrote this haiku as a response to the painting by André Derain: Mountains at Collioure, 1905, posted on FB by Virginia Popescu (see here).
Virginia very kindly, and enthusiastically, translated my haiku into French and Romanian! Once again, thank you, Virginia! I like this idea!
You can see Virginia Popescu and other poets’ responses to paintings, and indeed contribute to her project yourself, on her FB page here
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Instead of
cherry-blossom-viewing
she counts syllables
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My poem in the Asahi Haikuist Network, From the Notebook, http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku/ 4 May 2012
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writing on the wall
the drum beat grows
faster
écriture sur le mur
le rythme du tambour s’accélère
rapidement
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scriere pe perete –
ritmul tobei se accelerează
cu rapiditate
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Virginia Popescu posts paintings on her FB page and invites poets to write a haiku on them. I wrote this haiku to go with Rembrandt‘s Balthazar’s Feast, and Virginia translated it into French and Romanian! Thanks, Virginia!
It is also a response to the NaHaiWriMo prompt: drums
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rolling the tense head of his timpani set
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: drum
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cloistered garden
scent of roses drifts
over the wall
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: rose(s)
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south wind
a ball rolls across
the lawn
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: green
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sundial
waiting for the clouds
to move along
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: sun/shine
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ballgame prayer
knowing where
the portal lies
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: ball
Inspired by article in Science Daily: see here
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my garden
the grass longer
since yesterday
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: power
My haibun ‘Drawings’ is included in Contemporary Haibun, vol. 13, of Red Moon Press.
I am delighted to be in such a good journal and in such good company!
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orange flowers
how this bee loses
her head
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: orange
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Included in Gabi Greve‘s blog Washoku Japanese Culture and Cuisine
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fear not
these open skies –
trembling leaves
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: fear
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perigee
the heather moor holds
its breath
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: intimacy
