summer solstice –
a minute longer
in the tree pose
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Balance
summer solstice –
a minute longer
in the tree pose
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Balance
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catching the sun daylilies
NaHaiWriMo prompt: pairs dance
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Photo: Whitstable harbour, Kent, UK.
Photo and image manipulation: Stella Pierides
spinning barefoot –
yarn after yarn the fabric
of my tales
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: spin
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forcing life out of a stone
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: zoo animal moment
Photo and image manipulation: Stella Pierides
pond fountain
the solar cell gets
little sun
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Fountain
Mosel vineyards
at the end of the steep climb
raising a glass
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MaHaiWriMo prompt: climb
gliding through channels
in the Garden of Eden
Marbled Ducks
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: reeds
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Rembrandt’s gaze
the hush in the visiting
school class
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Art
fireflies
the stars in the embers
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starry night
in awe of the seas
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: name
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the false modesty of sunflowers
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: yellow
out of uniform –
on the bus home the nurse
rolls a cigarette
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: uniform
siesta
emptiness in the heart
of the forest
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: trees
deep shade
the teeth behind
her coy smile
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: mannerisms
rain jacket
pots at the clay fest
collecting water
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: jacket
A photo from today’s Pottery market at Diessen am Ammersee, Bavaria (10 May 2013)

For more information about this annual pottery market please click here
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weak sun
sky the colour of water
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: ignoring
homemade jam —
taste of redcurrants
holding the sun
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Home
gold rush
on a warm day
each blade of grass
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golden hair
the newsreader’s answer
to austerity
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: gold
garden life –
a snail shell floats
in the birdbath
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: den
curved coastline –
grains of sand taste
of salt
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Inspired by the NaHaiWriMo prompt: salt, set by Alan Summers of Area 17
The THF Per Diem: Daily Haiku poem by Deborah P Kolodji, on the 3rd of May 2013
and Gabi Greve’s World Kigo Database (WKD) entry on salt
tracing
my own rough edges –
wildflowers
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: asperity
alone
with each other
full fish moon and i
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full fish moon –
floating thoughts of returning
to my roots
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My entries to the April 2013 Moon Viewing Party
haiku bandit society
feeding the chickens
a headscarf flies off
into the road
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: farm animals
secret spring
a wild iris bends towards
the light
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: symbol
aerial roots
the light touch
of your words
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: roots
luminous garden
why then is the full fish moon
wrapped in cloud?
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: garden