August 2011
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Haiku #31 August 2011
leaving a trail of crumbs for the way back history lesson
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Haiku #30 August 2011
shower of sparks last year‘s pine cones giving up the ghost
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Haiku #29 August 2011
rice fields after the harvest caesium
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refusing to draw the plow, water buffalo – caesium fields
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Haiku #27 August 2011
just because the sky is navigable – thistledown
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Haiku #26 August 2011
baring his teeth the hobbling dog – harpsichord
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Senryu #25 August 2011
car boot sale - on schoolyard tables grown-up divorce
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Haiku #24 August 2011
Aegean heat -
in the animal shelter
an eery silence
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Haiku #23 August 2011
a goldfinch lines her nest thistledown
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Haiku #22 August 2011
glacial
the silence of space
against glass
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In escarp, the ‘ selective, twitter-based review of brief poetry and prose’, posted on 20 August 2011. (#8)
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Senryu #20 August 2011
wireless the quiet certainty of old love
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Haiku #19 August 2011
flying saucer the wind carries away my hat
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Haiku #18 August 2011
star gazing I leave my shadow behind
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Haiku #17 August 2011
teeth skin hanging loose a meta-ku
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s ku i n
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Haiku #16 August 2011
this moussaka I taste the tomatoes still ripening
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Haiku #15 August 2011
all that’s left after the garage sale— snow blanket
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Senryu #14 August 2011
flea market in this light her pearls look false
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Haiku #13 August 2011
wallflower— slowly getting to know your sense of humor
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Haiku #12 August 2011
full moon— a meteor flies past incognito
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Haiku #11 August 2011
fireflies— reflected in her eyes my childhood
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Haiku #10 August 2011
this heart urchin shell half-buried in the sandbed
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Prompt: Write a one line haiku.
Terri Hale French, this month’s prompter for NaHaiWriMo extension 2011, suggested an article fromSimply Haiku, to help us orient ourselves. Really helpful article, by William Higginson, can be read here.
For images of heart urchins click here. Pages and pages of them…
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Haiku #9 August 2011
on my doorstep— this old city in flames licking its wounds
. Well, even though I am not in London at present, as I live there for part of the year… a ku from my watching the news.
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Haiku #8 August 2011
frayed at the edges this sunflower had too much sun
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Haiku #7 August 2011
pale moon— sugar crystals traveling south
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Senryu #6 August 2011
Hot dog when hunger gets the better of me
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Haiku #5 August 2011
ruby wine— the song of a canary on my tongue
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Haiku #4 August 2011
ebb and tide— our holiday against the horizon
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Haiku #3a August 2011
sun-kissed Aegean gulls swoop where the boat has been
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Senryu #3 August 2011
life’s journey I count the years in my neck
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Haiku #2 August 2011
beach combing— amongst pebbles a muddy Drachma