Windfall

Windfall, the anthology from Haiku Northwest’s 2012 Seabeck Haiku Getaway, has arrived, and it’s beautiful! Thanks to Connie Hutchison, Ruth Yarrow, Dianne Garcia, and the members of Haiku Northwest that helped put it together. Every poet was allowed to submit up to five haiku to this anthology, from which two were selected to appear.

scavenger hunt
I fill up my bag
with the outdoors

Interestingly, I was just going through my stack of handouts from Seabeck the other day, and I found I still had the bag of items that inspired this haiku. It contained a big leaf maple leaf, a stick covered in lichen, a maple seed pod, a partly eaten pine cone, and a pebble.

deeper
into autumn
the winding path

I didn’t realize this one was also a hay(na)ku until now. The results of the kukai were also included in the anthology. I was in a two-way tie for 3rd place, with this one:

leaf fall
I text to say
I’ve arrived

I’m already looking forward to next year’s Seabeck retreat!

December Haiku Share- Day 9

December Haiku Share

hawks
catching thermals
slow moving clouds
— Cara Holman

1st place, WD Poetic Form Challenge: Hay(na)ku, Aug. 2011
Writer’s Digest, January 2012

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roads not taken
the shifting shapes
of clouds
— Seánan Forbes

a version of this appeared in Daily Haiku, Cycle 13, Summer 2012

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cold moon
even the owl
has flown
— angie werren

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waiting for the moon . .
a hawk weaves
a handful of clouds
— Sandi Pray

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shirtless
he weeds
between the gravestones
— Kirsten Cliff

Moonset 6:1 2010

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passing clouds
the scent of honeysuckle
in a crow’s wings
— Christine L. Villa

3rd place, Svetlana Marisova Memorial Kukai, September 2012

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eclipse
a mother
bares her breast
— Polona Oblak

A Hundred Gourds 1:3

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a hawk’s wingspan
between wire and sky
teacup moon
—Kathy Uyen Nguyen

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tree-topper
the red-tailed hawk, a lone
winged angel
— Margaret Dornaus

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sun down the wake of a red-tailed hawk
— sanjuktaa

From Things with Wings, edited by Aubrie Cox
You can see the doodle by Aubrie that inspired it here.

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autumn wind …
sparrow riding
my car antenna
— Pamela A. Babusci

Heron Quarterly 1:4 (October 1997)

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hummingbird
dive bombs
her quivering lip
— Jone MacCulloch

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hawks

December Haiku Share

Red-tailed hawks are a common sight around these parts, although I actually wrote this haiku when I was visiting Arizona two summers ago. This haiku combines two of my favorite subjects: hawks and clouds. It is also a hay(na)ku– a poetry form having three lines, consisting of one, two, and three words respectively. So share a haiku about hawks, other raptors, air currents, clouds, and/or try your hand at a hay(na)ku.

hawks
 catching thermals
slow moving clouds

1st place, WD Poetic Form Challenge: Hay(na)ku, Aug. 2011
Writer’s Digest, January 2012

 

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.