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fountain pen I drink your words
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: ink
Tag Archives: NaHaiWriMo
‘cracking the code’ photo haiku #21 May 2012
cracking the code
how the cosmic song
resonates
#20 May 2012 ‘blue mountains’ and ‘blue rinse’
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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
haiku #19 May 2012
haiku #18 May 2012
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in the mirror world
my reflection smiles back
bamboo shoots
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: mirror
‘writing on the wall’ haiku in 3 languages!
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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
haiku #16 May 2012
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rolling the tense head of his timpani set
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: drum
haiku #15 May 2012
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cloistered garden
scent of roses drifts
over the wall
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: rose(s)
haiku #14 May 2012
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south wind
a ball rolls across
the lawn
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: green
haiku #12 May 2012
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sundial
waiting for the clouds
to move along
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: sun/shine
senryu #11 May 2012
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dirty dishes
even after finger-licking
food
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: meal
haiku #10 May 2012
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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
haiku #9 May 2012
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my garden
the grass longer
since yesterday
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: power
haiku #8 May 2012
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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
haiku #7 May 2012
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fear not
these open skies –
trembling leaves
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: fear
haiku #6 May 2012
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perigee
the heather moor holds
its breath
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: intimacy
haiku #5 May 2012
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happy tidings
arriving at the Black Sea
leaf from the Schmutter
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: water
haiku #4 May 2012
haiku #3 May 2012
haiku #1 May 2012
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watermelon seed
the root
of everything
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: root(s)
haiku #30 April 2012
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sun and showers
a line of cars stop and go
stop and go
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NaHaiWriMo
haiku #29 April 2012
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spring first light
the history of the world
in bird song
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NaHaiWriMo prompt
haiku #27 April 2012
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pine
a line of breadcrumbs
climbs the trunk
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: tree
haiku for Anzac Day
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Anzac Day –
adding those who died
of a broken heart
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This poem appears in the entry for Anzac Day, see Gabi Greve’s World Kigo Database here.
haiku #23 April 2012
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marshland storks –
this year too paths emerge
along the Schmutter
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: local season
haiku #22 April 2012
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earth day —
the darkness inside
leaf veins
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: earth day
Can be found on Gabi Greve’s World Kigo Database, under Earth Day (2012)
haiku #21 April 2012
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light rain –
I leave the cherry blossom
to the birds
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NaHaiWriMo promt: observation (3)
haiku #20 April 2012
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spring sky
on my screen
tag clouds
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: observation
haiku #19 April 2012
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spring night
the lit spire across
the valley
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: description/observation
haiku #18 April 2012
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searching your face
for my childhood friend
Welsh onion heads
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: cool/warm spring
For ‘Welsh onion head’ see Gabi Greve‘s World Kigo Database here
