December Haiku Share
This haiku was written last year for a competition where the haiku had to contain 7 words or less. I even had one word to spare. So the challenge today is to either write a haiku using 7 words or less, or to write about plum blossoms or cherry blossoms, or both. (And I know there are many wonderful cherry blossom haiku out there from the VCBF Competition!)
before
we had words
plum blossoms
3rd place, 2011 Thom Williams Memorial Contest
If you missed the initial post, click here to read about the month long haiku challenge I am holding right here on my blog this December.
Prose Posies 
plum viewing
i abandon
the moon
Pamela A. Babusci
Evergreen English Haiku Journal
15:4 (April 2005) Japan
Nice one, Pamela! 🙂
Love it, Pamela!
beautiful!
Lovely, Pamela!
before
the drizzle dissipates –
scent of pink roses
December’s breath plum blossoms carried by wind
~Isabelle Loverro
everything
we have in common
plum blossom rain
The Heron’s Nest XIII:3 (september 2011)
Aw, hi Polona. And good one too 🙂
Delicately poignant.
so good . . .
I love this, especially the last line. 😉
thanks for your replies, everyone 🙂
cherry blossom—
it is between
me and God
red nails
shredding the night
into dawn
Notes From The Gean 14
woodland path
the scent of plum blossoms
draws us forward
Carmen Sterba
sunlit jar, 2002 KO, fall/winter 2001
falling blossoms
the words you whisper
in my ear
Berry Blue Haiku, August 2011
I’m learning a lot about you during this process Chrissi 🙂 Very nice.
Ah. Nice.
Lovely and always romantic…that’s Chrissi 🙂
wow! great minds of what?!
here’s mine from a while ago:
dusty seashell
the words he whispered
in my ear
1st place December 2006 Shiki Kukai
big sky: RMA 2006
Wow, Polona! Here I am thinking I’ve thought it first! hahaha. Well, I’m honored that my haiku is quite similar to a first prize winning haiku.
Thanks, Sanjuktaa. I like what your comment. 😉
Oops! Here I go again. I click the tab before deleting a word.
Here’s my reply:
Thanks, Sanjuktaa. I like your comment. 😉
nice . . .
Thanks, Scott, Seanan, and Margaret! 🙂
fallen blossoms –
loading empty beehives
on the truck
Kokako 8, April 2008
Love this one, K.!
Thank you, Margaret! 🙂
cherry blossoms
I let your cold hand
fall
Daily Haiku, Cycle 13, Summer 2012
blossoms
full again
fewer friends
first snow moon
I dream
cherry blossoms
cherry blossom . . .
the baby’s hand unfolds
around my finger
Sakura Award, 2011 VCBF
I remember reading this one. Lovely!
This is beautiful.
Beautiful and evocative.
cherry blossoms
after
your first kiss
even
on a dented beer-can
cherry blossoms
HM, VCBF, 2012
This is great, Sanjuktaa! Missed it before so good to read it here. 🙂
Great twist.
An excellent twist (and dent).
great image, Sanjukta . . .
I read this before. Love it even more! 🙂
leaves
divided – joined
by the tree
Blithe Spirit Vol.9 No1 March 1999
Kirsten, Seanan, Margaret, Chrissi…thank you all!