New Year’s Eve
a heart drawn in the softest
of pencils
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: pencils
New Year’s Eve
a heart drawn in the softest
of pencils
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: pencils
full cold moon
a blue tiger sneaks in
through the back door
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: tiger blue
chilly days
the absence of croaking
from the pond
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: frogs, but without mentioning them!
Christmas Day —
I stuff the chicken with
granny’s recipe
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: company
Season’s Greetings to all my friends. May your coming year be filled with beautiful moments!
Thank you all for the inspiration, company, and support through 2012.

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year’s end
the screech of tires
on wet tarmac
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: loud
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this train doesn’t stop longest night
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end of the world typo the last mi(n)ce pie
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: 1: monoku/fest; 2: mice
Hells Angel
the breadcrumbs
in his beard
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: motorcycle
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wordless poem sharing the silence of fallen leaves
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: seeking solace
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outside the box more of the same crunchy snow
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: outside the box
without my glasses
the lit candelabra –
blazing star
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: candle
wall calendar –
each year Mount Olympus
a little farther
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Mountain
a snow blanket
covers the sun collectors –
my old bike
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: twin wishes
sizzling roast –
I become
a shark
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: shark
1
resting the needles –
a half-finished poem
hangs from my lips
2
resting the needles –
I search the mirror
for clues
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Playing with Gabi Greve‘s kigo for the day: ‘resting the needles’! See the entry in the World Kigo Database
NaHaiWriMo prompt: mirror
alone —
the kitten’s paw prints
in the snow
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: a haiku beginning with a word starting with letter L – well, it is either L1: ‘lonely,’ or ‘l’ is the second letter of the first word! I think ‘alone’ works better…
advent wreath
the first candle already down
to a stump
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: ornament(s)
Isn’t time passing quickly? Even the candle in my advent wreath burned down already. For those not familiar with this kind of wreath: it is a wreath that sits on the centre of the table (in this case my table) with four, in some cases five, candles; one for each of the weeks of advent. Each week one more candle is lit, until we reach Christmas! At this rate of burning however, there won’t be much to light on that last Sunday!
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crawling out of its larval skin first love
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: dragonfly love
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bubbling stream her first syllables
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: baby’s first word
The picture is from today’s walk along the river Schmutter, near Neusaess.
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sign language
his hand
on his heart
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: sign
ice streams
the glacier’s last
stand
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: endings
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Inspired also by the beautiful photographs in The Guardian here
flood tide
her canvas shoe sinks
into the snow
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: tide
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full moon beyond the horizon her frozen stare
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: full moon
the Little Mermaid’s
return to the sea –
flowering cactus
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: allusion to poem, song, book
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: silence
freezing wind
the usual tooth starts
to ache
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: wind
pomegranate
she starts losing
her baby teeth
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: evolution (sort of)
cracks in the snow –
sprouting from her book
the old house
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: family
breaking bread –
she gives me her sweetest
smile
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: sharing