false tranquility of distance –
the powerful always farthest
from the suffering
#DailyHaikuPrompt | tranquil
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Our haiku prompts for 2-9 May.
The haiku season shifts to summer/winter as we work toward the solstice.
They're prompts, not demands. Use them as you will
North South
05/02 Bright Daikon
05/03 Summer Moon Imbibe
05/04 Wave Rake
05/05 Breeze Pine
05/06 New Clothes Carp
05/07 Spray Winter Coat
05/08 Chick Fallen Leaves
05/09 Grief Raven
the banked fire
the shadow of the guest
is on the wall
--Matsuo Bashō
grass tuffs
to the plum thicket –
song sparrow
#DailyHaikuPrompt | plum
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a hastily called
press conference –
her maudlin career
#DailyHaikuPrompt | maudlin
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morning fog –
the flicker of
goldfinches
#DailyHaikuPrompt | yellow
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the high desert quivers
with flowers –
spring rain
#DailyHaikuPrompt | refreshing
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four inch hail
hurled from the clouds –
April showers
#DailyHaikuPrompt | clouds
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Our haiku prompts for 10-17 January.
Sorry for the repeated words lately. Myopic selections.
Feel free to use any form of the prompt, or even not at all.
North South
01/10 Creek Smoldering
01/11 Sable Cut Grass
01/12 Winter Grass Potato
01/13 Cold Melon
01/14 Thaw Summer Moon
01/15 Rage Eggplant
01/16 Candle Sunset
01/17 Turnip Lotus
hydrangeas
pale blue in the rain
blue in the moonlight
--Masaoka Shiki
a teetering season –
next catkins and blackbirds
tumble into the wetlands
#DailyHaikuPrompt | catkins
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Edited 188d ago
sweater weather –
skeins of geese ply
the March sky
#DailyHaikuPrompt | geese
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in the backwater –
upturned buckets
filled with ice fishermen
#DailyHaikuPrompt | salmon (usually walleye)
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last sip of coffee –
temporary
nirvana
#DailyHaikuPrompt | nirvana
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#coffee
early March inside the
cardinal’s song –
new moon
#DailyHaikuPrompt | new moon
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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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Edited 239d ago
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
darkened porch –
the evening thick
with chorus frogs
#DailyHaikuPrompt | evening
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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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Edited 1y ago
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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