August 2011
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Haiku #31 August 2011
leaving a trail  of crumbs for the way back history lesson
Aug 31st
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Haiku #30 August 2011
shower of sparks last year‘s pine cones  giving up the ghost
Aug 30th
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Haiku #29 August 2011
rice fields after the harvest caesium . refusing to draw the plow, water buffalo – caesium fields
Aug 29th
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Haiku #27 August 2011
just because the sky is navigable – thistledown
Aug 27th
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Haiku #26 August 2011
baring his teeth the hobbling dog – harpsichord
Aug 26th
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Senryu #25 August 2011
car boot sale - on schoolyard tables grown-up divorce
Aug 25th
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Haiku #24 August 2011
Aegean heat - in the animal shelter an eery silence
Aug 24th
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Haiku #23 August 2011
a goldfinch  lines her nest thistledown
Aug 23rd
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Haiku #22 August 2011
glacial the silence of space against glass . In escarp, the ‘ selective, twitter-based review of brief poetry and prose’, posted on 20 August 2011. (#8)
Aug 23rd
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Senryu #20 August 2011
wireless the quiet certainty of old love
Aug 20th
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Haiku #19 August 2011
flying saucer the wind carries away my hat
Aug 19th
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Haiku #18 August 2011
star gazing I leave my shadow  behind
Aug 18th
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Haiku #17 August 2011
teeth skin hanging loose a meta-ku . s    ku i n
Aug 17th
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Haiku #16 August 2011
this moussaka I taste the tomatoes still ripening
Aug 16th
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Haiku #15 August 2011
all that’s left after the garage sale— snow blanket
Aug 15th
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Senryu #14 August 2011
flea market in this light her pearls look false
Aug 14th
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Haiku #13 August 2011
wallflower— slowly getting to know your sense of humor
Aug 13th
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Haiku #12 August 2011
full moon— a meteor flies past incognito
Aug 12th
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Haiku #11 August 2011
fireflies— reflected in her eyes my childhood
Aug 11th
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Haiku #10 August 2011
this heart urchin shell half-buried in the sandbed .   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…
Aug 10th
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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. 
Aug 9th
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Haiku #8 August 2011
frayed at the edges this sunflower had too much sun
Aug 8th
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Haiku #7 August 2011
pale moon— sugar crystals traveling south
Aug 7th
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Senryu #6 August 2011
Hot dog when hunger gets the better of me
Aug 6th
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Haiku #5 August 2011
ruby wine— the song of a canary on my tongue
Aug 5th
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Haiku #4 August 2011
ebb and tide— our holiday against the horizon
Aug 5th
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Haiku #3a August 2011
sun-kissed Aegean gulls swoop where the boat has been
Aug 3rd
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Senryu #3 August 2011
life’s journey I count the years in my neck
Aug 3rd
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Haiku #2 August 2011
beach combing— amongst pebbles a muddy Drachma
Aug 2nd