December Haiku Share

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)

S.M. Abeles

Jenny Ward Angyal

Dawn Apanius

Linda L Ashok

Sanjuktaa Asopa

Pamela A. Babusci

Johnny Baranski

Kirsten Cliff

Judy Cole

Aubrie Cox

Gillena Cox

Margaret Dornaus

Seánan Forbes

Terri Hale French

Yousei Hime

Billy Howell-Sinnard

Alegria Imperial

Kashinath Karmakar (kash poet)

Isabelle Loverro

Jone MacCulloch

Lauren Mayhew

Paula Moore

Maire Morrissey-Cummins

Peter Newton

Kathy Uyen Nguyen

Polona Oblak

Sandi Pray

Marie Shimane

Carmen Sterba

Stevie Strang

Alan Summers

Lech Szeglowski

Christine L. Villa

Michael Dylan Welch

angie werren

Alison Williams

Juliet Wilson

2 thoughts on “December Haiku Share

    • 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)

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