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sunset
the water-lily
still warm
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: letting go (or not!)
Tag Archives: smallstone
‘grandmother’s drawer’ in the CKK #34
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grandmother’s drawer
a dried rose and a thimble
full of soil
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CKK #34: grandmother
‘poet’s journey’ #23 May 2012
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poet’s journey
filling your bowl
with stars
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: For Hortensia Anderson
‘fountain pen’ #22 May 2012
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fountain pen I drink your words
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: ink
‘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
‘Instead of’ (Asahi, 4 May 2012)
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Instead of
cherry-blossom-viewing
she counts syllables
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My poem in the Asahi Haikuist Network, From the Notebook, http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku/ 4 May 2012
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‘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 #13 May 2012 and Poet Page on THF Registry!
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Today, an old poem from 2011:
spilling its seeds
a broken pomegranate
bleeds for luck
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First appeared in Unfold magazine, 2011
(NaHaiWriMo prompt: broken)
And the great news:
My poet page is up on The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Registry site. It can be seen by clicking here
Many thanks to Billie Wilson for creating it and putting it up.
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 #28 April 2012
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balmy breeze
one more stone
for my cairn
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: one kigo
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 in Bregengemme/Chrysanthemum
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jasmine rice Jasminreis
the tongue twists into a new Zungenbrecher in einer neuen
language Sprache
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In Bregengemme / Chrysanthemum Vol. 11.1, 2011
(With many thanks to the editors for the translation into German)
