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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: animals
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September haiga challenge.
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: animals
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September haiga challenge.
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your patience –
the way a river
cuts through rock
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NahaiWriMo extension 2011. Prompter: Johnny Baranski, prompt: river(s).
My haiku ‘back to school’ was included in the Asahi Shimbun Haikuist Network showcase of the 16th of September 2011, edited by David McMurray. This showcase appears two to three times a month in the daily Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun and is a must read for haiku lovers. Click here and read all the poems! Really good work by poets from around the world.
(My haiku is in the section ‘From the notebook’)
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Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September challenge: A haiga a day … or so…
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what I know
each lake has its own
full moon
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This haiku was written in response to a prompt for a haiga using Margaret Rosenberg’s artwork. You can see the whole artworld + haiku (haiga) in here
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through the fog –
mountains of orange
pumpkins
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: mountains
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summer –
this bee
gets lost again
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: Haynaku
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lucky charm –
on the crest of the wave
sound bubbles
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: luck
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setting out
to dispel darkness?
moon
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: light and dark
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this old city
a river runs through
its heart
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angel
meeting the endless
light
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Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September Challenge: A Haiga a day, or every few days …
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blue moon
which came first the fall
or the apple?
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(Leaving Ammersee)
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September Challenge: A Haiga a day, or every few days …
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waiting for the tide –
fishing boats line
the harbour
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I was thinking of Wells-next-the-Sea, but please feel free to supply your own harbour …
NaHaiWriMo: vacation memories
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school days –
counting sparrows
in the yard
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: school days
waiting
for the fish to be caught
frying pan
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The artwork in this haiga was originally a photograph taken by Hermann Mueller in Diessen am Ammersee, a small town on the shores of the lake. Diessen is famous for its Baroque gem of a Church, its community of artists and craftsmen, its yearly world-famous ceramic market, and its fish. Fish nurseries have been flourishing for a number of years here. The couple in the picture is a wood-carved sculpture on the lane leading to the lake promenade (I hope to find out the name of the artist or at least the owner of the sculpture and will be posting it here).
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Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September Challenge: A Haiga a day, or every few days …
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apple orchard –
on the picnic blanket
spilt wine
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: picnic.
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plain sailing?
once again we run into
trouble
NaHaiWriMo: games. Leaving Ammersee.
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September Challenge: A Haiga a day, or every few days …
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between us –
this sunset is also
a sunrise
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: sunrise
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September Challenge: A Haiga a day, or every few days …
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: weekend. Lake Ammersee.
Taking part in Rick Daddario’s 19 Planets September Challenge: A Haiga a day, or every few days …
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September drizzle –
on my wall calendar
the page for August
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011/prompt: calendar
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leaving a trail
of crumbs for the way back
history lesson
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Prompt: photo of wine cellar, NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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shower of sparks
last year‘s pine cones
giving up the ghost
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Prompt: campfire. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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rice fields after the harvest caesium
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refusing to draw
the plow, water buffalo –
caesium fields
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Prompt: environmental concerns haiku. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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just because
the sky is navigable –
thistledown
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Prompt: just because. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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baring his teeth
the hobbling dog –
harpsichord
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This month’s prompter, Terri Hale French, suggested we use a randomly generated haiku by the haiku generator (a JavaScript Haiku application) to work on our own haiku. I did. The result is the haiku above. You can see the original, software generated haiku below:
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harpsichord sickens
dense snowstorms hobbling dogs
wailing, formless
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car boot sale –
on schoolyard tables
grown-up divorce
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Prompt: second hand. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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Aegean heat –
in the animal shelter
an eery silence
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Prompt: natural disasters. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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a goldfinch
lines her nest
thistledown
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Prompt: Photo of thistle with cicadas. NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.
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glacial
the silence of space
against glass
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In escarp, the ‘ selective, twitter-based review of brief poetry and prose’, posted on 20 August 2011. (#8)
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wireless
the quiet certainty of
old love
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NaHaiWriMo extension 2011: radio