December Haiku Share
I write a surprising number of haiku about spiders, although the prompt for this one was actually “weaving”. Share a haiku about gardens, spiders, weaving, dew, or webs.
garden spider –
weaving the dew
into its web
1st place, Shiki Kukai, November 2010
“haiku Wall” at the Quarterly HSA Meeting
in Bend, Oregon, June 3-5, 2011
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 
Lovely.
Lovely and . . . so fragile.
Thank you both. 🙂
Japanese garden
a butterfly folds itself
into a flower
Frogpond 35.3, Autumn 2012
as much as the word has been abused, this is beautiful!
Thank you so much, Polona. You’ve brightened a soggy drag of a day.
lovely haiku 🙂
Thank you.
weaving its way
into daytime…
wisps of clouds
a nice visual…
such a good girl
at the garden gate—
the end
of the rainbow
draws higher into the sky
Ribbons 8:2, Fall 2012
oh, I do envy your spider haiku! 🙂
(have to go with garden, myself…)
white bones
she buries a fish
in the garden
haigaonline — Issue 13.1 (contemporary)
What a nice thing to say, angie. 🙂
I can totally relate to your haiku– we have a “pet cemetery” under our maple tree, populated by bettas and dwarf african frogs buried in plastic easter eggs.
oh my goodness — what a great idea, the plastic egg burial. that’s a haiku-worthy image! 😉
not a single star
out of place
in the Milky Way…
the garden gate
left ajar all night
Pamela A. Babusci
Tanka Splendor Awards
& A Thousand Reasons
not my personal favourite but it did well in that same kukai (3rd place)
weaving their song
into a privet hedge
sparrows
oh, but I liked this one, Polona, and also Michael McClintock’s (he and I were in a two-way tie). Actually, there were so many good ones that month!
thank you, Cara… and yes, that’s a frequent problem with the kukai – too many good poems to reward them all (i’m sure i gave yours a vote)
threads of silk
by ancient weavers
between the trees
~isabelle loverro
rusty gate –
a spider weaves a web
between the bars
British Haiku Society Anthology 2009
Juliet Wilson
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
in a web
in a flower
a sunbeam
http://ravencliffs.blogspot.com/2012/12/web.html
evaporating
from a dewey field
the morning quiet
Sketchbook, July/Aug 2012
storm clouds . . .
can hope be caught
in a spider’s web?
NaHaiWriMo August 2012
love it, Kirsten! 🙂
Kirsten, this is like the Riddle for the Sphinx. 🙂
Gorgeous!
Thanks so much, Chrissi and Lech! 🙂
Congrats on that beautiful spider haiku, Cara! I have no spider haiku to share so I’m going with garden.
spring breeze…
looking at the same garden
with new eyes
A Hundred Gourds 1:3, June 2012
See haiga here – http://ahundredgourds.haikuhut.com/ahg13/haiga27.html
thank you, Chrissi. 🙂 Oddly, I just came across the biggest spider I have ever seen, lurking in my bedroom, after not seeing a single spider for months.
That can be really scary! You know what, I said I don’t have a spider haiku to share, but I just realized my haiga has an image of a jumping spider.
Great haiga!
Thanks, Kirsten! 🙂
and a great haiga it is 🙂
Christmas Eve
in my favorite nook
a spider spins the silence
‘spins the silence’ Love it!
Me, too! The last line stands out to me. 🙂
love the image, Lech . . .
It is an honor for me to read such comments from persons whose own haiku and tanka I admire so much!
Kirsten & Margaret, my Polish (polish 😉 thanking for both of you.
i, too, love this one, Lech 🙂
The sentence:
It is an honor for me to read such comments from persons whose own haiku and tanka I admire so much!
apply also to you Christine & Polona.
Thank you so much. 🙂
the winter garden
where false hellebore appears
without fair warning
my sister’s mind a landscape
scored with fault lines . . . and furrows
(opening verse from “my sister’s world,” Atlas Poetica: vol. 8, Spring 2011)
spider’s web
blocking my way
I go under
my home destroyed by fire
when I was a child
time to sleep–
spider in his web
spinning thoughts
somehow
in the moon’s hidden face
a garden
Alegria Imperial
haiku in ‘the moon’s hidden face’, a haibun Multiverses 1:1 June 2012
spider
lighted tree
silver threads sparkle