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 August 2024 is Shannon M. Blood, doing so for the second time (previously in December 2022) [3]. Thank you, Shannon, for doing this job!
薄宦梗猶汎，故園蕪已平。
煩君最相警，我亦舉家清。
蟬。
李商隱。
I floated along like driftwood as a low official,
Let my old garden fall into dereliction.
I thank you for your authentic advice,
That also I may have a family life.
Cicada
Li Shangyin [4]
ephemeral
rainbow and golden pots
keep walking
~ Rainbow
day and night
ladyhawke and the black knight
reunited
~ Soulmate [5]
forlorn and forsaken
a homestead without prayers
tumbleweed and ghosts
~ Homestead
lord sandwich said
himself a middle child
in between is the best
~ Middle Child [6]
keep the apple tart
in the children's room
if you're diabetic
~ Tart
no sticky sand
in the hourglass
of life
~ Hourglass
a day of
scything and mowing
my muscles are pudding
~ Pudding
into the mountains
it's a wildcat venture
with german railway
~ Wildcat
no bargain
at the duty free shop
but boredom sells
~ Duty
harvest season
the scarecrows are still on duty
no vacation
~ Duty
on the dashboard
a hula girl wiggling
keep looking ahead
~ Wiggle
paddling the grotto
all sounds exploding
then a calm turquoise pool
~ Grotto
muffins can't decide
chocolate chips or blueberries
but I can
~ Chocolate chip
clove oil
on the katana competing
with the carnation
~ Cloves
still looking at
the old coloring book
the kid lives far away
~ Coloring book
no pagans
in the kingdom of pagan
taking refuge
~ Pagan
Links and Annotations:
[1] National Haiku Writing Month https://www.facebook.com/NaHaiWriMo
[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] https://www.nahaiwrimo.com/meet-the-prompters/shannon-m-blood
[4] Li Shangyin (李商隱) lived from about 813 to 858 and was the last great poet of the Tang Dynasty. 24 of his poems were included in the anthology 300 Poems of the Tang Dynasty (唐詩三百首). About 550 of his poems are preserved in the collection Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty (全唐詩) from 1705.
[5] I had this movie in mind: “Ladyhawke is a 1985 medieval fantasy film directed and produced by Richard Donner and starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladyhawke_(film)
[6] Afterwards I've written this: Earl of Sandwich – a bit of History after all
https://rheumatologe.blogspot.com/2024/08/earl-of-sandwich-bit-of-history-after.html The picture is from the Big Island.
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