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under the red maple
red maple –
autumn’s harvest
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: autumn foliage
Tag Archives: haiku
Three Halloween Haiku
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full moon tea
my book of beasts
lies open
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tea leaves —
a fate worse than
cuticles
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kallikantzaroi—
drinking tea they forget
the World tree
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Three haiku included in Aubrie Cox’s collection Tree with Trolls, in her blog Yay Words. Twenty seven poets saying, in their own unique way, Happy Halloween! And thank you Aubrie!
Haiku #1 November 2011
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ant lines –
weaving a pine needle
necklace
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NaHaiWriMo extension; prompts this month by Carlos Colon: sweet indulgence
Haiku #31 October 2011
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ghost-writer
this haiku is written
by its reader
this haiku is written
by its reader
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: ghost/spirit
Haiku #30 October 2011
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no-go area –
her recipe-book
on the top shelf
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: secret
Haiku #29a October 2011
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on her tombstone dove
two snails
mating
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: cemetery
Haiku #28a October 2011
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telegraph wires –
swallows too are waiting
for your news
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Nahaiwrimo extension 2011; prompt: migrating birds
Haiku #27 October 2011
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charred blankets –
the doll
still smouldering
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: consequences of war
Haiku #25 October 2011
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winter’s beginning –
last year’s coat
two sizes larger
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Or,
winter’s beginning –
last year’s coat
two sizes too big
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: beginning
Haiku #23 October 2011
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squall –
learning to blow
against the wind
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: windstorm
Haiku #22 October 2011
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as if the word for peace were war cloudy skies
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cloudy lens –
looking without
seeing
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: peace
Haiku #21 October 2011
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curling
against your warmth
ebb tide
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: place of peace
Haiku ranked with ‘merit’ in Sketchbook 6-4 (Jul/Aug 2011)
bee hive
where the workers never
strike
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Sketchbook 6-4, Editor’s Choice Haiku, John Daleiden: Life in the Mostly Unexamined World (scroll down)
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eternal life
only the roaches
come close
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in my salad
a green caterpillar—
life lesson
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Sketchbook 6-4, Guest Editor’s Choice Haiku, Bernard Gieske : A Glimpse into the Past (scroll down)
and Editor’s Choice Haiku, John Daleiden: Life in the Mostly Unexamined World (scroll down)
Haiku #18 October 2011
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gut feeling –
blinking
the third eye
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: belly
Haiku #17 October 2011
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nightfall –
losing the certainty
of youth
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: dusk
Haiku #15 October 2011
Two one-line haiku
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the unrelenting waves under your pillow
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portentous below the belt oracles
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: one-line haiku
Haiku #13 October 2011
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never too late –
listening to the silence
of the moon
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: late/too late
Haiku #12 October 2011
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such innocence
the soft curve
of your lip
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: innocence
Kukai results 12 October 2011
Delighted! My haiku “starry night” came second (tied) in the July/August 2011 Sketchbook Kukai (peer-reviewed contest).
Here it is:
starry night—
growing old
together
Delighted also that several of my fellow haijin from NaHaiWriMo did so well, esp Terri Hale French (1st), Michelle Harvey, Cara Holman, and others…
Two other haiku I submitted received no votes! Food for thought, of course.
The entire thread can be read by clicking here
Haiku #7a October 2011
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balance –
perched on a wire a dove
and a crow
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt Pris Campbell: beauty
Haiku #5 October 2011
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moving house –
a snail and the same old
me
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: home
Haiku #4 October 2011
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bamboo screen –
not a single
butterfly
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: butterflies
Haiku #2 October 2011
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coming home –
the garden has forgotten
my hand
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: sabi
Haiku #1 October 2011
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sunrise –
the singular beauty
of a rose petal
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011. New prompter, Pris Campbell, prompt: awe
Haiku #30 September 2011
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crocus-
cutting your first
tooth
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: beginnings
Senryu #29 September 2011
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making ends meet –
I sew an extra button
on my waistband
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: ends
Haibun in CHO
So pleased that my haibun ‘Drawings’ was accepted by Contemporary Haibun Online!
‘Drawings’ is now online on Contemporary Haibun Online, ‘The Quarterly Journal of Contemporary English language Haibun.’ My piece can be read here
Haiku #28 September 2011
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harvest festival
the last apples before
the Fall
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: celebration.
Haiku #26 September 2011
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autumn circus –
keeping all her juggling-balls
in the air
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011; prompt: circus
Haiku #25 September 2011
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so many bees
on the Autumn Joy…
Octoberfest
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Autumn Joy = one of the sedum family (flower)
Oktoberfest: oh well…
NaHaiWriMo extension 2011, prompt: autumn flowers.
