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longitude
east by degrees too numerous
to measure
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: grief
Tag Archives: haiku
haiku #6 February 2012
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freeze frame-
the snowman at my door
speaks
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: frame
haiku #5 February 2012
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breakfast-
a hen gathers her chicks
under her wings
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: egg
haiku #4 February 2012
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cold snap –
a stray dog bares his teeth
at the wind
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: dog
haiku #3 February 2012
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waxing gibbous
this catfish stays
in the deepest pool
NaHaiWriMo prompt: catfish.
haiku #2 February 2012
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quay dawn
twelve cats waiting
for the fishing boat
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: boat
Haiku #31 January 2012
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lime-scented
a gentle breeze blows through
syllables
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: nahaiwrimo (!)
senryu #30 January 2012
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white sails
her billowing
skirt
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: wind
haiku #29 January 2012
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chicks hatching
if only we knew
the time…
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: birth/death
Haiku #28 January 2012
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spring rain –
a smile I cannot
forget
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Haiku #26 January 2012
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silent evening
I lift the cover off
the water butt
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: water
Haiku #25 January 2012
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white rose –
a falling petal catches
the light
This poem is the result of two prompts:
1: NaHaiWriMo, Annie Juhl’s prompt: metaphor
2: Katherine Gallagher, writers’ workshop prompt: ‘one petal in a full-blown rose’
Haiku #24 January 2012
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still swaying last year’s eucalyptus
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: one-line haiku
Haiku #23 January 2012
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spring clean –
in the dragon’s gullet
moon dust
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: dragon
A Happy New Year of the Dragon!
Haiku #22 January 2012
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dark moon
balanced finish of a wine
long forgotten
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: taste
Haiku #20 January 2012
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shooting stars
all you need to know about
sciatica
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: pain
Haiku #19 January 2012
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eating alone –
I measure the distance
to the moon
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: food/eating
Haiku #17 January 2012
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song of the earth
a blackbird sings
the first notes
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: music/song
Haiku #16 January 2012
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moist earth
a simple gadfly knows what’s best
for its eggs
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Posted on FB site Joys of Japan
Haiku #14 January 2012
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moon flower
I wrap my dreams
in furoshiki
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What on earth is furoshiki? Please visit Gabi Greve’s Daruma Museum to find out! Wonderful patterns on the cotton cloth wrappers too. And don’t forget to scroll down the page to find my haiku.
(First shared on Fb group Joys of Japan wall)
Haiku #13 January 2011
Haiku #12 January 2012
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wintersweet –
shifting my weight
to the other foot
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: narrowing focus.
Haiku ‘harvesting lies’
Haiku #10 January 2012
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before the rain –
the air fills with the scent
of rain
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before the rain the scent of rain
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: scent/smell
Haiku #9 January 2012
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salmon roe
he rubs his wife’s
pregnant belly
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#8 January 2012
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handiwork –
snowball by snowball
we receive winter
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: hands
Haiku #6 January 2012
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daydream
frost flower
garden
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foot mirage –
trickling water from the hot
water bottle
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daydream
how time
flies!
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: daydreaming
#5 January 2012
time and time again
clocks render me
speechless
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time piece
a kitten knows when it’s time
to eat
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: here and now (time)
In The Language of Dragons
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flowering only
in soft moonlight—
dragon fruit
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In anticipation of the year of the dragon, a delightful collection of dragon haiku edited by Aubrie Cox, of Yay Words! The language of Dragons is heart-warming, playful, witty, and wonderful. I am delighted that one of my own dragon haiku made it there. The entire collection can be downloaded as PDF from Aubrie’s site, here.
Haiku in Sketchbook Kukai and thread
old calendar
the writing on the wall
illegible
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November / December 31, 2011 “old calendar” Kukai, Sketcbook, 6th place, tied.
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old calendar
the sum of my hopes
fading
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in my old calendar
you came first
seedlings
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November / December 31, 2011 “old calendar” Kukai, Sketchbook, 10th place, tied.
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candlelight
how pale the moon
looks
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Choice haiku, Karina Klesko, US, Sketchbook, “Light a candle”
Choice Haiku, John Daleiden, Sketchbook, “Candle in the Wind”
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power cuts
in this wind a candle burns
too fast
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Choice haiku, Karina Klesko, US, Sketchbook, “Light a candle”
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electric candles—
so, I record
my prayer
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Choice haiku, Karina Klesko, US, Sketchbook, “Light a candle”
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prayer candle—
she puts her lips
to the icon
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Choice haiku, Karina Klesko, US, Sketchbook, “Light a candle”
Choice Haiku, John Daleiden, US, Sketchbook, “Candle in the Wind”
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diamonds
sparkle in your eyes
candle flame
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Choice Haiku, John Daleiden, US, Sketchbook, “Candle in the Wind”
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All Choice Haiku poems can be seen here and here
