National Haiku Writing Month has been founded by the well known haiku poet Michael Dylan Welch. The goal is to write at least one haiku a day. National Haiku Writing Month is in its 13th year. [1] I enjoy writing to the prompts on Facebook. Here are some interesting links: [2]. The prompter for October 2023 has been Rick Daddario [3].
前不見古人，後不見來者。
念天地之悠悠，獨愴然而淚下。
登幽州臺歌。
陳子昂。
Before me, I do not see my ancestors,
Behind me, I do not see my descendants.
When I think about the stability of this world,
Alone and sad I cannot help but weep.
Song on Climbing the Tower at Youzhou
Chen Zi'ang [4]
a crypt appears
in the neighbors' carport
halloween again
~ crypt
the fox on the meadow
hiding its' fangs
blood on the grass, though
~ fang(s)
on the road
again
with the holy howl
~ howl
nothing better
in the parallel universe
no Last Exit
~ exit
bobbing up and down
the silvery ship
starboard above
~ starboard
agast
the third eye opens
and is looking inwards
~ inward
the autumn storm
uproots the trees
bamboo bending backwards
~ backward
frangipani
coconuts and turquoise sea
then homeward bound
~ homeward
The story behind: I've just been reading an old lonly planet travel survival kit on Tonga as I wanted to know the name of the island, where you have to water the pigs befoe taking a shower as they would lick the water from your body. The island's name, where you are alone with the sea, the beach, coconut trees, and the pigs of course, is 'uoleva.
sepia sky
summer fading away
we still look up
~ skyward
pedestrian mall
listening so street music
no entrance fee
~ entrance
early evening
with a bitter hops tea
sweet memories
~ bitter
golden october
wind in the trees
itchy feet
~ itchy
morning round
bellow and howl
then treats
~ bellow
sun beams
piecing cold air
jingle-jangle morning
~ jangle
mashed potatoes
no pinch of nutmeg
granny forgot
~ pinch
so much joy
at our anniversary
still salty tears
~salty
Links and Annotations:
[1] https://www.facebook.com/NaHaiWriMo National Haiku Writing Month
[2] „To help with haiku fundamentals, please have a look at "Becoming a Haiku Poet" at https://www.graceguts.com/essays/becoming-a-haiku-poet. And please review the "Haiku Checklist" at https://www.graceguts.com/essays/haiku-checklist.
[3] Rick Daddario https://www.nahaiwrimo.com/meet-the-prompters/rick-daddario
[4] Chen Zi'ang (陳子昂) lived from 661 (or maybe 656; my old textbook has 661) until 702.) Though only one of his poems appear in the anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems (唐詩三百首), he is considered as an important poet of the Tang dynasty, maybe more because of his influence on poetical theory. Interestingly, the poem is listed among the seven-character poems (seven characters per line), but in this poem two lines have five characters and two lines have the unusual number of six characters.
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