the dunes at Au Sable –
a landscape
remembers
#DailyHaikuPrompt | sable
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a shiv-wind
finds my parka seams –
another January thaw ends
#DailyHaikuPrompt | thaw
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even through the sweetness
of cold melon –
this relentless rage
#DailyHaikuPrompt | cold/melon
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Our haiku prompts for Dec 28 - Jan 1.
Feel free to use any variation of the prompt or simply as inspiration.
Another year draws to a close. Poetry is hard, but made slightly easier by sharing. Thank you for your willingness to share.
12/28 Cardinal
12/29 Icicles
12/30 December
12/31 Endings
01/01 Beginning
01/02 New Year
01/03 Rooster
01/04 Deer
Year after year
on the monkey’s face
a monkey’s face.
—Matsuo Bashō
Our haiku prompts for Jan 18-25
As always, feel free to use any variation or simply as inspiration.
Thank you for sharing your works and supporting each other.
North South
01/18 Thaw Grass
01/19 Pebble Meadow
01/20 Hibernate Kingfisher
01/21 Time Smolder
01/22 Candle Lawn
01/23 Ocean Parched
01/24 Glimmer Lotus
01/25 Rage Glade
Although there is the road,
The child walks
In the snow.
---Murakami Kijo
Our haiku prompts for Feb 22 - Mar 1.
Feel free to use any variation or none at all.
Thanks for sharing your works and supporting each other.
North South
02/22 Geese Mist
02/23 Flurry Cricket
02/24 Egg Sandpiper
02/25 Sunrise Lantern
02/26 Thaw Ripen
02/27 Friend Dew
02/28 Mud Peaches
03/01 Plow Chill
Wild geese flying high,
A call in the spring twilight,
Reminds me of you.
--Yosano Akiko
down off dusk's cooling
air, perched on low tree branches —
crows watch paper kites
4 Apr 25 (belated) - 'kite'
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Our haiku prompts for 17-24 Jan
Every day, a new challenge.
Feel free to use whatever form of the idea the prompt suggests.
North South
01/17 Turnip Lotus
01/18 Chestnuts Rain
01/19 Snow House Fly
01/20 Smoke Moth
01/21 Quiet Fuchsia
01/22 Sparrow Meadow
01/23 Mountain Evening Rain
01/24 Blizzard Light Clothes
At the end of the year
In a busy time
I was lost in thought
--Sugita Hisajo
ground blizzard –
sparrows hunker
in the lee of the tree
#DailyHaikuPrompt | sparrow
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blizzard warning –
a cow herd disappears
in the snow
#DailyHaikuPrompt | blizzard
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in the meadow
drifted snow and the memory
of sedge wrens
#DailyHaikuPrompt | meadow
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roasting the last winter squash
.
crickets and a gentle
evening rain
#DailyHaikuPrompt | evening rain
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an Iowa landscape –
mountains out of
molehills
#DailyHaikuPrompt | mountain
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high in the tree
a woodpecker devours
last year’s apples
#DailyHaikuPrompt | quince (apple)
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a glimmer inside
the indigo sky –
distant hope
#DailyHaikuPrompt | glimmer
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summer night –
lightning bugs rise
with the humidity
#DailyHaikuPrompt | lighning
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filled
and sanded smooth …
a long grief
#DailyHaikuPrompt | sand
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alone
an ancient mare
observes the twilight
#DailyHaikuPrompt | horse
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just a rock, just a
perfect sphere suspended — in
the morning twilight
29 Mar 25 - 'new moon'
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Our haiku prompts for Mar 8-15.
Feel free to use any variation of the prompt or none at all.
Thank you for all your contributions and support for each other's work.
North South
03/08 Soil Twilight
03/09 Warbler Orchid
03/10 Fresh Laughter
03/11 Till Sea Bass
03/12 Green Red
03/13 Azalea Walnut
03/14 dFull Moon
03/15 Nirvana Pumpkin
The retreating shapes
of the passing spring—
wisteria
--Kana-Jo
Our daily haiku prompt for 24-31 Jan 2025
Thanks for all your contributions.
Feel free to use any form of the prompt, or even not use it at all.
01/24 Blizzard Light Clothes
01/25 Lonely Summer Sky
01/26 Charcoal Kingfisher
01/27 Hoarfrost Pasture
01/28 Bean Soup Overcast
01/29 Quince Lightning
01/30 Horse Mosquito
01/31 Glimmer Sand
The short summer night.
The dream and real
Are same things.
--Takahama Kyoshi
Our haiku prompts for 31 Jan to 07 Feb
The haiku season shifts with the new month.
Feel free to shift with it. Or not.
North South
01/31 Glimmer Sand
02/01 Twittering Scarecrow
02/02 Rain Velarian
02/03 Grove Corn
02/04 Barley Soaked
02/05 Warmth Catfish
02/06 Mend Undulate
02/07 North Wind Grin
at any rate,
I leave entirely up to you
at the the year-end.
--Kobayashi Issa
aging body he says
no need
to hide the mend
catfish noodling –
much of life a reach
into the muddy river
#DailyHaikuPrompt | catfish
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after snow slanted on
the north wind –
calm and a murder of crows
#DailyHaikuPrompt | north wind
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