dawn –
the slug’s night journey
fades
#DailyHaikuPrompt | morning dew
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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 122d 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 80d 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 for 12-19 Sep
Every day, fresh inspiration.
Again.
North South
9/12 Pampas Grass Nirvana
9/13 Wings Constellation
9/14 Cascade Chill
9/15 First Storm Frog
9/16 Deer Horse Tail
9/17 Dappled First Blossom
9/18 Leaky Full Moon
9/19 Twilight Late Snow
spring arrives
in muddy clogs
at every door
--Kobayashi Issa
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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
Our haiku prompts for 17-24 Oct
All we can do is try.
Sometimes it works.
North South
10/17 Straw Wisteria
10/18 Crisp Hyacinth
10/19 Ripe Pink
10/20 Tremble Rising Carp
10/21 Coolness Butterfly
10/22 Hot Tea Field
10/23 Desolate Kittens
10/24 Apple Soft Breeze
Oh, autumn
in the boundless world!
its traces
--Masoaka Shiki
barbed wire
enveloped by grapevines –
years pass
#DailyHaikuPrompt | grapes
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Our haiku prompts for 24-31 October.
The last week of "late autumn/spring."
Every day brings us fresh perspective.
North South
10/24 Apple Soft Breeze
10/25 Red Maple Seaweed
10/26 Withered Late Frost
10/27 Whisper Kite
10/28 Foggy Beach
10/29 Maple Misty
10/30 Lightning Windmill
10/31 Stem Catkins
spring rain--
pond and river
are one
--Yosa Buson
Our haiku prompts for 26-Sep to 3-Oct
Sometimes they come together like magic.
Only sometimes.
North South
9/26 Fog Whale
9/27 Sunbeam Wind
9/28 Dragonfly Gusts
9/29 Walnut Night
9/30 Chilly Bee
10/01 Mushrooms Evening
10/02 Haystack Blossoms
10/03 Frost Spring Day
Yes, spring has come:
this morning a nameless hill
is shrouded in mist.
--Matsuo Bashō
touch the bamboo stem
smooth, as though waxed and polished
pleasant of itself
9 Oct 26 (belated) - 'stem'
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Our haiku prompts for 31 October to 7 November.
We begin "early winter/summer" even if it doesn't feel like it.
Every day's a new poem only you can write.
North South
10/31 Stem Catkins
11/01 Rust Cicada
11/02 Withered Grass Spray
11/03 Onion Kingfisher
11/04 Plunge Lost
11/05 Cold Night Road
11/06 Fallen Leaves Butterfly
11/07 Turnips Sap
awake at night—
the sound of the water jar
cracking in the cold
--Matsuo Bashō