To make it easy for all involved (including me!), I thought I would consolidate all the prompts for the 2012 December Haiku Share here, along with the links to the original pages. The instructions can be read here. A list of contributors appears at the end of this page.
#1
a stranger in the crowd
that looks like you
blue mist
Shiki Kigo Kukai, November 2012
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#2
evening fog
the sound of geese
comes and goes
Multiverses 1.1, June 2012
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#3
Perseid’s shower
the blurred edges
of last night’s dream
A Hundred Gourds 2.1, December 2012
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#4
kindling the flame-
one candle
lights another
Caribbean Kigo Kukai, October 2010
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#5
lamb’s ear
the softness
of summer rain
Daily Haiku- Cycle 13, August 2012
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#6
hushed dawn
bird tracks
in the snow
From “The Scent of Pine” rengay with Kirsten Cliff;
A Hundred Gourds 1:3, June 2012
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#7
before
we had words
plum blossoms
3rd place, 2011 Thom Williams Memorial Contest
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#8
night sky –
my thumb
eclipsing the moon
1st place, Shiki Kukai, July 2010
3rd place, Shiki Kukai 8th Annual Poets’ Choice Kukai
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#9
hawks
catching thermals
slow moving clouds
1st place, WD Poetic Form Challenge: Hay(na)ku, Aug. 2011
Writer’s Digest, January 2012
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#10
evening solitude
the mountain lake
deeper than starlight
Daily Haiku Cycle 13, April 2012
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#11
sultry afternoon
a spider dangles
by a strand
Acorn #29, Fall 2012
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#12
the waiter asks
if I’m alone –
winter clouds
1st place, Sketchbook Kukai, Nov/Dec 2010
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#13
the ocean
bathed in moonlight
his deep blue eyes
Shiki Kukai, July 2012
“Sea Bandits” edited by Aubrie Cox, Sept. 2012
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#14
secrets…
the whisper of corn silk
between my fingers
Sketchbook Haiku Thread, May/June 2011
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#15
starting over –
my footprints erased
by the morning tide
Frogpond 34:1, Winter 2011
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#16
blue eucalyptus
the muffled sound
of crashing waves
Daily Haiku Cycle 13, June 2012
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#17
college brochures
on the coffee table
autumn color
From “Grade Five Rapids”
A Hundred Gourds 2:1, December 2012
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#18
lingering awhile
under the awning
the scent of roses
From “Between the Birdsong” (with Kirsten Cliff)
LYNX 27:3, October 2012
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#19
streetlights reflected
in wet pavement
winter dawn
Mariposa #26, Spring/Summer 2012
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#20
barefoot summer…
a drop of honeysuckle
on my tongue
NaHaiWriMo, April 2011
Standing Still: HNA Conference Anthology, Aug. 2011
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#21
fine mist
he says frogs
I say crickets
The Heron’s Nest XIII:3, September 2011
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#22
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
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#23
dandelion dreams…
I close my eyes
and make a wish
NaHaiWriMo, August 2011
In “Things with Wings”, edited by Aubrey Cox, June 2012
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#24
first light –
another bird voice
joins the choir
NaHaiWriMo, April 2011
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#25
around the table…
three generations
in the candles’ glow
Sketchbook haiku thread, Nov/Dec 2011
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#26
morning meditation
an empty boat rocks
with the waves
A Hundred Gourds 1:2, March 2012
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#27
frost-tipped blossoms
not how I thought
it would happen
HM, 2012 Porad Award
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#28
longest night
my third round
of counting sheep
Shiki Kukai, December 2012
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#29
afternoon fog
the dampened cries
of wild geese
1st place, 2011 Porad Award
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#30
open mic
what is there
left to say?
“Things with Wings”, edited by Aubrie Cox, June 2012
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#31
snow flurries
a fresh batch
of resolutions
Shiki Kukai, January 2012
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List of contributors (in alpha order by last name)
Dawn Apanius
Linda L Ashok
Judy Cole
Alegria Imperial
Kashinath Karmakar (kash poet)
Isabelle Loverro
Paula Moore
Peter Newton
Marie Shimane
Alison Williams
night of silence
i find a river stone
in my pocket
Pamela A. Babusci
HM: 11th HIA Haiku Contest (2009)
Lovely, Pamela! I also wrote a haiku about a river stone and a pocket last year for the Sketchbook haiku thread, right after visiting my parents’ grave. The topic was “cemeteries”:
a river stone
still warm from my pocket
on their grave
(Sketchbook haiku thread, Sept/Oct 2011)