storm clouds ...
a flash
of inspiration
#DailyHaikuPrompt | lightning
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pasture fog –
the old mare
a darker gray
#DailyHaikuPrompt | pasture
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Our daily haiku prompts for 4-11 July
I look forward to your takes every day.
Feel free to use the suggestions as you like.
North South
7/04 Roses Rage
7/05 Sand Plover
7/06 Parched Winter Grass
7/07 Morning Cloud Owl
7/08 Swim Freeze
7/09 Cut Grass Stormy Sea
7/10 Cool Off Cold Draft
7/11 Rain Frosty
the lamp once out
cool stars enter
the window frame
--Masaoka Shiki
Our haiku prompts for 11-18 July
Not every day is a winner. Enjoy the days that are.
Feel free to use whatever form of the prompt that calls you.
North South
7/11 Rain Frosty
7/12 Meadow Hibernate
7/13 Sunflower Glimmer
7/14 Lush Pasture Bare Tree
7/15 Overcast Sky Huddle
7/16 Evening Rain Pine Grove
7/17 Cook Out Deer
7/18 Lotus Blossom Glisten
Not quite dark yet
and the stars shining
above the withered fields.
--Yosa Buson
Edited 61d ago
Our haiku prompts for 22-29 August
Not every day is a winner, but each one is a step forward.
Try, try again.
North South
8/22 Quail Coat
8/23 Corn Husk Bonfire
8/24 Fading Light Fresh Water
8/25 Fresh Peach Hearth
8/26 Milky Way Evergreen
8/27 Red Leaves Cold
8/28 Full Moon Grove
8/29 Buzz Geese
I write, erase, rewrite
erase again, and then
a poppy blooms
--Katsushika Hokusai
Edited 19d ago
rosebuds
in a tangle of weeds –
her untended garden
#DailyHaikuPrompt | rose
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Mom's home has been vacant for a while now. I'm seeing the effect of her care dissipate. And the persistence of beauty.
Our haiku prompts for 18-25 July
Sometimes you just have to accept the day and try again tomorrow.
North South
7/18 Lotus Blossom Glisten
7/19 Beach Soup
7/20 Eggplant Mind
7/21 Light Clothing Snow
7/22 Melon Freezing
7/23 Cool Morning Candle
7/24 Pinks Hawk
7/25 Sand Castle Rage
summer night--
the moon by the river
just a sliver
--Kobayashi Issa
Our haiku prompts for 5-12 September.
Each day, start again.
Even if you didn't yesterday.
North South
9/05 Orchids Shoots
9/06 Patch Fresh
9/07 Dusk Low Tide
9/08 Willow Leaves Gusty
9/09 Sparrow Ivy
9/10 Morning Warbler
9/11 Waning Moon Wild Rose
9/12 Pampas Grass Nirvana
gazing on something
so seldom seen from Edo,
the moon-topped mountains
--Matsuo Bashō
Our haiku prompts for 8-15 August
It's not obvious but the season is changing, ever so slowly.
Have you noticed autumn/spring creeping in?
North South
8/08 Leaves Hot Tea
8/09 Cricket Carrot
8/10 Pack Endure
8/11 Cold Rain Last Snow
8/12 Lantern Hawk
8/13 Spiral Daikon
8/14 Boisterous Fallen Leaves
8/15 Joy Barely Spring
Someone goes by wearing a hood
in his own darkness
not seeing the harvest moon
--Yosa Buson
Our haiku prompts for 25-Jul to 1-Aug
Thank you to everyone who plays along at home.
Keep going.
North South
7/25 Sand Castle Rage
7/26 Fireworks Carrot
7/27 Lotus Blanket
7/28 Glade Chestnuts
7/29 Smoldering Time
7/30 Overcast Narcissus
7/31 Yarrow Orange
8/01 Grasshopper Cloud
cover my head
or my feet?
the winter quilt
--Yosa Buson
water beads grow
on the glass –
cold draft
#DailyHaikuPrompt | cold draft
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sand castle –
a democracy
at low tide
#DailyHaikuPrompt | sand castle
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in the forest glade
this summer –
flocks of biting flies
#DailyHaikuPrompt | glade
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waning moon –
a humid night thickened
with crickets
#DailyHaikuPrompt | crickets
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Our daily haiku prompts for 1-8 August.
The days may be getting shorter/longer, but it's still getting hotter/colder.
Just depends on where you stand.
North South
8/01 Grasshopper Cloud
8/02 Sail Evergreens
8/03 Sardines Flurry
8/04 Refresh Hail
8/05 Soaked Longer Days
8/06 Fall Colors Friendship
8/07 Valerian Dried Leaves
8/08 Leaves Hot Tea
Hamamatsu beach–
helping out the cicadas
singing waves
--Kobayashi Issa
Our haiku prompts
The heat of early autumn still carries summer's memory as winter's cold still clutches at spring.
Thank you all for being there.
North South
8/15 Joy Barely Spring
8/16 Lamplight Buds
8/17 Soak Frost
8/18 Killdeer Dusk
8/19 Moon Friend
8/20 Mist High
8/21 Catfish Eggs
8/22 Quail Coat
is it already Spring?
in these nameless mountains
and misty haze
--Matsuo Basho
barbed wire
enveloped by grapevines –
years pass
#DailyHaikuPrompt | grapes
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