watercolor sky

For the I Doodle, You ‘Ku  challenge, on Aubrie Cox’s Yay Words blog:

watercolor sky
a hawk circles
into view

allegro con brio

For the I Doodle, You ‘Ku  challenge, on Aubrie Cox’s Yay Words blog:

allegro con brio
a flurry of hailstones
heralds spring

signs of spring

For the I Doodle, You ‘Ku  challenge, on Aubrie Cox’s Yay Words blog:

signs of spring…
birdsong
and all that jazz

spring green

NaHaiWriMo- 2/18/13 (prompt: green)

spring green
a dozen different shades
of birdsong

sunglasses

sunglasses, three days running. winter is slowly but surely ceding to spring…

in the hawk’s shadow

2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge- Day 28

A tough prompt from guest prompter Jonathan Edward Ondrashek, coming just 2 days before the end of the challenge– “Write a poem illuminating how it feels to stand up for what is right in the face of adversity in the workplace”. Hmm. I took a few liberties with defining “workplace”, and wrote the following, based on something I observed this summer.

in the hawk’s shadow…
a mother robin
guards her nest

“Robin” is yet another spring kigo (three in a row, if I remember right!), even though I observed this in the summer. I guess that proves that kigo are more guidelines than anything else. More poetic responses can be read on the Poetic Asides blog.

spring’s end

2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge- Day 27

Today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt comes from Paula Wanken: write a hero or villain poem. I went with the former:

spring’s end

his folded flag

encased in glass

“spring’s end” is another spring kigo. More poetic responses can be read on the Poetic Asides blog.

show & tell

2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge- Day 21

There is a synchronicity in today’s Poetic Asides prompt, by Bruce Niedt, to use song titles to write a poem. I just sent off a submission to Aubrie Cox yesterday, for her upcoming post in which we were to use only song titles to write haiku, etc. Aubrie’s rules were a bit more stringent: no extra words were allowed beyond those in the actual titles. Punctuation was the only thing that could be added. I have to admit that I tweaked Bruce’s rules a bit, to make my life easier. I only used three song titles instead of five (after all, this is 3 -line haiku!), and only the first title was selected completely randomly. Once I got “show & tell” as a first line, I played around with other title possibilities from my itunes, until I found two others that would work together.

show & tell
three little birds singing
in the sunshine

Song Title Credits:

“show & tell”– Al Wilson
“three little birds”– Bob Marley
“sunshine”–Keane

“Ten thousand birds” is a spring kigo. I’ll settle for three. ;-)More poetic responses can be read on the Poetic Asides blog.

melting snow

2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge- Day 17

Today’s  guest prompt by Maxie Steer is to make the title “How to [blank]”. I settled for just using the phrase somewhere in my haiku. I did autumn yesterday, so today I decided to go with a spring kigo:

melting snow
learning how
to let go

More poetic responses can be read on the Poetic Asides blog.

time travel

2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge- Day 12

Today’s intriguing prompt is by Jane Shlensky: “Write about a piece of technology or engineering that does not exist but that should.” It was a little bit tough to do justice to this prompt in 6-12 words, but here goes:

time travel
last year’s robin
back again

“Robin” is a spring kigo.  More poetic responses can be read on the Poetic Asides blog.