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 14th year. [1] I enjoy writing to the prompts on Facebook. Here are some interesting links: [2]. The prompter for Febuary 2024 is Michael Dylan Welch (founder of NaHaiWriMo) himself, who has provided prompts every February since the first month was held in 2011.
颯颯東風細雨來，
芙蓉塘外有輕雷。
無題二首。
李商隱。
The wind is soughing from the east with drizzle,
A delicate thunder sounds behind the hibiscus pond.
Second poem without title
Li Shangyin [3]
Oskar Matzerath
beating the tin drum
still hearing him
~ Oscar [4]
november
cranes flying south
now north again
~ November [5]
shaking knees
and a steady mike
next candidate
~ Mike
looking in Lima
for Alfonicito's stepmother
what a fun city!
~ Lima [6]
lead or feathers
a kilo is a kilo
but Klio's lyre-play ...
~ Kilo [7]
romantic evening
with flickering candles
“Juliet, oh Juliet”
~ Juliet [8]
at the railway station
lots of steam and more smoke –
Darjeeling, too
~ India [9]
checking in
and the smell of colitas
never to leave again
~ hotel [10]
keeps going
and going and going
my golf
~ golf [11]
PS. no royalties by VW
two foxes
trotting towards the barn
no foxtrot intended
~ foxtrot
village pond
echoes of the cracking ice –
drowning ~ echo
slowly flowing
the river at the delta –
just like dad's thoughts
~ delta
watching a kid
flying a kite
oh, Charlie Brown
~ Charlie [12]
in between
performance and bravo –
a moment of success
~ bravo [13]
in vain
looking for α & ω
it's a circle
~ alpha
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] Li Shangyin (李商隱) lived from around 813 to 858 and was the last major poet of the Tang period. 24 of his poems have been included in the anthology 300 Poems of the Tang Dynasty (唐詩三百首) . Approximately 550 of his poems have been preserved in the compilation Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty (全唐詩).
[4] Oscar Matzerath is one of the protagonists in The Tin Drum. Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) is a novel by Günter Grass, published in 1959. It was adapted 1979 into a film, which won the Academy Award ("Oscar") for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Drum
[5] I've already written a haibun: https://rheumatologe.blogspot.com/2024/02/haibun-cranes.html
[6] This haiku is referring to the novel Elogio de la madrastra (In Praise of the Stepmother) by Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, which had been published in 1988. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_the_Stepmother. Might not be found in public libraries of Republican ruled states of the US.
[7] No, I'm not explaining kilo, but Klio (Κλειώ) or Clio, the muse of lyre-playing.
[8] Referring to a song by Robin Gibb.
[9] Refers to the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (Toy Train) https://rheumatologe.blogspot.com/2023/05/darjeeling-himalayan-railway-toy-train.html
[10] Hotel California by the Eagles, of course. Here the link to listen to the song again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br3KkvgMAZY
[11] No royalties by VW. And going, and going has been an advertizing campaign for the beetle.
[12] https://www.animationconnection.com/assets/artwork/1633633057-236-5649-chomp-charlie-brown-vs-the-kite-eating-tree.jpg
[13] My favourite of my own haiku this first half of February.
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