Haiku for National Haiku Writing Month – May 2024 First Half

 

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 NaHaiWriMo daily writing prompter for May 2024 is b Robert Kingston.

青山橫北郭，白水繞東城。
此地一為別，孤蓬萬里征。
浮雲游子意，落日故人情。
揮手自茲去，蕭蕭班馬鳴。
送友人。
李白。
In the blue mountains north of the city walls
And the rapids east of the city,
From this place we have to part,
You walk 10,000 li through the grassy steppe.
Like a floating cloud, you remain in mind,
And sure enough, the sun has gone down.
As we set off we raise our hands in greeting
And our horses whicher disconsolately.
Saying goodbye to a friend
By Li Bo [3]

calm morning
hardly any waves
at Apollo Bay
~ Bay [4]


 

glittering wake
on the dark ocean
some cuts heal
~ Ocean

new volcanic island
first plants settling
all ephimerical
~ Tectonic

at the delta
the river accepts the tides
hospital gate
~ Delta

batcave
without a batmobile
but Count Dracula
~ Cave

red cliff
no desperate fights
but maidenhair flowers
~ Cliff

dangerous
abyss and crevices
still flowers
~ crevice

ice on the summit
spring in the valley
snowdrops
~ Summit

Mount Yasur
hissing like a dragon
I see Frodo and Samwise
~ Volcano

dreaming of
the eta aquariids
only rain
~ Meteor

Halley's Comet
grandma had seen it twice
I'm working on it
~ Comet

under the starlight
the road winds on and on
but we sit down
~ Star

sun beams
splitting the cumuli
for a rainbow
~ Sun

spring moon
guarding the lovers
and the left ones
~ Moon

six o'clock bell
the village is empty now
save for the magpies
~ Clock

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 Bai (李白), I prefer the pronunciation Li Bo, is, along with Du Fu (杜甫), the most popular poet of the Tang period. 34 of his poems can be found in the compilation of 300 Poems of the Tang Period (唐詩三百首). Sun Zhu (孫洙), a scholar during the Qing Dynasty, compiled it in 1763. Li Bo lived from 701 to 762. His birthplace is in today's Kyrgyzstan near Tokmok, the old Suyab, very far to the west. I was able to visit the area twice. He wrote in a distinctive, romantic style with plenty of freedom, spontaneity and disregard for convention. About 1000 of his poems have survived the vicissitudes of time.
[4] Shortly after 9/11 I visited Apollo Bay. (I reached Melbourne about the time the first tower had been hit.)

 
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