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after all the trips silver shallows
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Photo (reworked) from a walk in Faversham, earlier this summer.
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‘mother’s day’
mother’s day
pushing all the wrong
buttons
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Frogpond 2015, 38:2, p.11
‘ash wednesday’
ash wednesday
the oud workshop closed
during the war
.
‘angel dust’
Continuing with the science fiction/weird science theme:
angel dust
a seagull drone readies
to sweep
‘olive press’
olive press
in the Cretan mountains
liquid gold
.
Prompt: oil
‘how to be’
how to be…
eating the prickly pear
blossoms
‘nature’s numbers’
nature’s numbers
the infinite sweetness
of cup-shaped blooms
‘after the rain’
after the rain…
squelching across
winter lawns
Photo from my walk in Hampstead Heath.
‘machine song’
machine song
the plug-in maker’s
baritone voice
.
#scifaiku #sciencepoetry
‘day moon’
regardless
of sunrise or sunset
day moon
.
Prompt: seize the poem: day moon
‘alien earth’
‘how light’
how light the weight of the skies
‘not alone’
not alone hunting for evidence
The photo for this haiga was taken in Diessen am Ammersee, December 2014.
‘speed of light’
speed of light the liquidity of our dreams
.
Prompts:
seize the poem: ripples
NaHaiWriMo: liquid
Photo: From the Augsburger Christkindlesmarkt.
‘winter sun’
winter sun
piling kindling
for the fire
.
in hedgerow: journal of small poems #12
‘cold days’
cold days
the snowy egret’s feather
in her hat
.
Seize the poem prompt: cold days
‘icy stare’
icy stare
light bends
the wrong way
.
seize the poem prompt: pond reflections
‘lighthouse’
lighthouse
one cold wave
after another
.
Prompt: liquid
‘head in the clouds?’
head in the clouds?
still waiting for the voice
from heaven
.
Prompt: kickbacks
Photo: 29 November 2014 in Augsburg. First Advent, the Engelspiel, at the marketplace.
There is a video of this event (Engelspiel) from previous years here
Also a description of the Christmas market, or Christkindlesmarkt, as it is called, here
‘winter stew’
winter stew…
releasing the gist
of the story
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: kitchen
‘self-healing’
self-healing pain(t)
Haiga
Photo: rusting footbridge in Kent (autumn 2014).
‘birds’
.
birds in and out of sunday noon rain
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: knack
‘sunset years’
sunset years
the effort of sitting up
straight
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: King (?)
‘wild stream’ “Kusamakura” 2014
wild stream
my thoughts
etc.
19th International “Kusamakura” Haiku Competition, Third Prize, Foreign Language Category, November 2014
Surprise in the post! A letter all the way from Kumamoto, Japan, with the good news: My haiku was awarded Third Prize in the 19th International ”Kusamakura” Haiku Competition, 2014. A nice letter and a certificate to show off.
This is what the organisers say about the contest: “This contest strives to celebrate the novelist and haiku poet Soseki, as well as to bring awareness of “Kumamoto and its Haiku” to the national level and further develop Kumamoto’s haiku culture.” It certainly does so, and on an international level too.
Prizes will be awarded at the Kumamoto City Municipal Gymnasium and Youth Center on November 22, 2014. Warmest congratulations to the Grand Prize and all other winners. I wish I could be there!
There is a list of winning haiku from earlier years here (scroll down).
And now back to my wild stream (of consciousness etc.)
‘journey’s end’
journey’s end
tying up
the mooring line
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Journey (This was my last prompt for October, for this FB Community.)
‘new mother —’
new mother —
unwrapping a gift without
instructions
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: jargon
‘broken mirror…’
broken mirror…
autumn gusts ripple
the lake
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: jinxed
‘forget-me-nots’
forget-me-nots
the well-thumbed corners
of my diary
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: journal
‘morning stroll…’
morning stroll…
letting the joggers
overtake
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: jog
Photo: River Ammer, Ettal valley.
‘jewel in the crown’
jewel in the crown
the last few days
in the sun
NaHaiWriMo prompt: jewellry
Photo: Stella Pierides, the storks in Ottmarshausen, Neusaess.
Stella Pierides 