I love holidays and I’m on day 25 of the NaHaiWriMo challenge. So here are three holiday haiku for the Big Tent Poetry prompt. The rest of my NaHaiWriMo haiku can be read on the NaHaiWriMo Facebook page, along with a myriad of other wonderful haiku from others across the globe.
groundhog’s day –
looking for
lost shadows
Valentine’s Day –
the queen of hearts
trumps all
Caribbean Kigo Kukai #21
President’s Day weekend –
crocuses blanketed
by a layer of snow
If you’re wondering what happened to my NaHaWriMo posts, the answer is this: since Frogpond recently changed its policy of allowing submissions of haiku that have appeared on FB or Twitter, but NOT on blogs, I made the difficult decision not to post them on this blog, but to hold them out for possible submission. However, they can still all be read on FB on the NaHaiWriMo page, along with a myriad of other wonderful haiku from many of the 321 people who follow this page. 🙂
I will resume my small stones, come March 1, as well as continuing with other posts. Stay tuned…
rice paper moon…
how quickly this month
has flown by
pinwheels and pickup sticks –
the child
I once was
buying time…
feeding the meter
coin by coin
Oops, missed a NaHaiWriMo post way back from Day 15 , hence this out-of-order post. 🙂
three days rain…
mud sticking
to my soles
spring fever –
muddy pawprints
on the carpet
I have a special fondness for the first poem I ever published, so when I saw the Big Tent prompt this week to take the title of a manuscript we’d like to write, and then go back and write the title poem, I kind of did the process in reverse. I took the poem I already wrote, which was published in Four and Twenty, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Nov/Dec 2008, and based on that, titled the manuscript: Frogs, He Said
Sleeping With an Open Window
Frogs, he says
Crickets, I insist
We stop again to listen.
Other responses to the prompt here.
sturgeon moon –
what would have been
his ninetieth birthday
indoor track –
one more time around again
again
I decided that in the interests of keeping my sanity, I will merge NaHaiWriMo with my daily A River of Stones post for the rest of February, as my haiku are very definitely small stones. And I will count these for postaday2011 and call it good! Three birds with one stone (so to speak, although thinking on it, that is an awful expression!)
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