Remember my haiga ‘euphorbia’ posted here a few weeks ago? To see it, please click here
The original photo was of my pond. Below left is another photo, taken in May last year. Then we had a terrible storm. On the 20th of June 2013, the winds raged round the pond, the garden, the whole city; the impact of this storm on my pond can be seen below right:
needles, then trees
swirl round the pond —
eye of the storm
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sleeping beauty —
how the storm covered
your charms
longest day
the storm tips
the balance
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: fragment
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From the storm in Neusaess, Germany
summer solstice –
a minute longer
in the tree pose
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Balance
picture and frame
barefoot on the last bus
home
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: matching
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
beyond a shadow of a doubt
white geranium
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: shadows
stepping stones
this time round the river
is wetter
NaHaiWriMo prompt: footsteps
Photo: The Schmutter, near Neusaess, DE.
Photo and image: Stella Pierides
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gliding through channels
in the Garden of Eden
Marbled Ducks
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: reeds
Related news article here
dawn chorus /
learning to remain /
silent //
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: wake
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grandad’s hat telling it as it is
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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
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Mother’s Day
the missing iris
from her earring
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lost the look in her eyes
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: lost
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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
I was delighted to be invited by Colin Steward Jones to guest-blog for the Scotland based Gean Tree Press. Since its inception, its blog, Haiku Matters! has been a hotbed of intellectual storm, liberal thinking, and wisdom… all about haiku.
I posted my first, introductory guest blog post on Haiku Matters! today! More to come soon, as I’ll be blogging for the whole month of May. On the menu: a walk or two, a bit of reading, playing with a couple of wild and not so wild ideas, reaching out to and from other genres, while touching on issues relating to the reader all along. Our reader, ourselves as readers, other poets’ readers.
If you have the time, do visit, take a look, and share your own point of view…
(Picture: Creative Commons)
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
