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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#Iowa
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'
#DailyHaikuPrompt
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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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the flow of years
lily pads sway
on the water
#DailyHaikuPrompt | undulate
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empty fields –
the grin
of a dog
#DailyHaikuPrompt | grin
#SmallPoems
Our prompts Apr 26 - May 3.
Use them as you will.
Thank you for sharing your works.
North South
04/26 Fresh Breeze Desolate
04/27 Lingering Thatch
04/28 Windmill Gleaner
04/29 Blossoms Deer
04/30 Evening Withered
05/01 Brief Straw
05/02 Melody Raven
05/03 Warming Onion
The white bush clovers
Drop the dewdrops
Frequently.
---Masaoka Shiki
Our prompts for Apr 12-19.
Feel free to explore them.
Thank you for sharing with all of us.
North South
04/12 Drizzle Waning Moon
04/13 Full Moon Maple
04/14 Birth Berries
04/15 Misty Vivid
04/16 Mountain Stern
04/17 Pink Comfort
04/18 Beach Straw
04/19 Fire Plenty
Someone goes by wearing a hood
in his own darkness
not seeing the harvest moon
--Yosa Buson
woman leans, smoking
passing slowly, breathing in —
lost habits linger
27 Apr 25 - 'lingering'
#DailyHaikuPrompt
(徘徊, pacing to and fro - drawing from a poetic phrase I encountered in Tang Buddhist poetry, see below)
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Our haiku prompts for 7-14 Feb
Thank you for playing along at home.
Do what suits your mood. The prompts, merely suggestions.
North South
02/07 North Wind Grin
02/08 Flurry Milky Way
02/09 Spring Lantern Moon
02/10 Violet Lamplight
02/11 Cloud Vine
02/12 Evergreen Ripen
02/13 Wind Chill
02/14 Pilgrimage Grapes
Birds sing in the dawn,
Their voices fill the soft air,
A homecoming song.
--Masaoka Shiki
Our haiku prompts for the week 07-14 March
I look forward to your contributions every day.
Feel free to use (or ignore) the prompts as the spirit moves you.
03/07 Nirvana Spice
03/08 Fiddlehead Twilight
03/09 Moon Quill
03/10 Frog Full Moon
03/11 Plow Laughter
03/12 Spring Sky Lightning
03/13 Low Tide Red
03/14 Hare Fruit
Holding the umbrella,
The mother is behind.
The autumn rain.
--Nakamura Teijo
gravel road –
a deer ripens
in the ditch
#DailyHaikuPrompt | ripen
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#Rural
a creek winds
through the valley –
reverie with the coffee
#DailyHaikuPrompt | wind
#SmallPoems
aging mother –
pelicans
return to the river
#DailyHaikuPrompt | pilgrimmage
#SmallPoems
#Caregiving
our entangled lives
wild grapes
#DailyHaikuPrompt | grapes
#SmallPoems