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]. Our daily writing prompter has been Linda Papanicolaou [3], who had been prompting previously in April 2012, October 2021, June 2021, and June 2022. Thanks a lot, Linda!
別夢依依到謝家，
小廊回合曲闌斜。
多情只有春庭月，
猶為離人照落花。
寄人。
張泌。
Reluctantly I left and returned to the house of Xie in my dream,
Across a zigzag veranda with an arched railing.
So much love only exists in the spring courtyard under the moonlight,
But for him in the distance even wilted flowers shine.
To a Certain Person
Zhang Bi [4]
one goes
one comes
two years
Inspired by Shiki's "two autumns" [5]
new year's eve
fireworks and no sign of
new year's adam
~ New Year's Eve
vegan bacon
made from rice paper
without haiku though
~ Bacon
last year's
to-do-list
still valid
~ To-do-list
too busy
to write a to-do-list
too busy with the old one
~ To-do-list
nobody expects
the spanish inquisition
or the spanish flu
~ Epidemic
boxing day
nobody wanted to call it
doggy bag day
~ Boxing Day
better
to light a single candle –
or even better eight
~ Hanukkah
a version of eggnog
still remaining to be tried
lait de poule
~ Eggnog
festivus
pole dance of grievances
and cheers afterwards
~ Festivus
why make life
easier on christmas
cookie exchange rules
~ Cookie Exchange
elamite cuneiform
more than a crossword puzzle
or a doctor's script
~ Crossword Puzzle
ugly weather
just before winter kicks in
just the sweater for it
~ Ugly Sweater
a hissing wind
flickering grave lights
alone with our weltschmerz
~ Emo
cranes migrate
and salmon migrate
even humans migrate
~ Migrants
this evening
colored in maple syrup
sweet kisses
~ Maple Syrup
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/linda-papanicolaou
[4]Zhang Bi (張泌) lived from around 930-?, so he is not a Tang poet at all but a poet of the transition period between the Tang and Song dynasties, though he acquired the title of jin shi (進士) during the Tang period. But this poem can be found in the compilation 300 poems of the Tang period (唐詩三百首). However, none of his poems are in the compilation Complete Tang Poems (全唐詩) from 1705. In Complete Poems of the Song Dynasty (全宋詩) one believes that Zhang Yi (張佖) and Zhang Bi (張泌) are the same person. Volume 14 contains 20 poems by Zhang Yi, and the first 18 poems are actually poems by Zhang Bi. How did I come across this poem? I read a crime novel by Qiu Xiaolong (裘小龙) [4a] and it is mentioned there. There is also the reading Mi for the character 泌, but I don't like this reading because it has more to do with urology.
[4a] Qiu Xiaolong: Die Frau mit dem roten Herzen – Oberinspektor Chens zweiter Fall [The woman with the red heart - Chief Inspector Chen's second case], German by Susanne Hornfeck, dtv 2005. ISBN 978-3-423-20851-2. The book was lying around for a while because the title page didn't encourage me to read it. I didn't think it was a success, but I'm glad I read the book. By pure chance, three days before, I had read the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, which is also mentioned in the novel. And while searching for Louis MacNiece, because I can't stop leafing through the book, I came across Patrizia Cavalli and her poem "Qualcuno mi ha detto". ... and I don't expect anyone to understand this.
[5] “Shiki's "two autumns" poem has inspired many haiku that allude to or parody the original. This essay discusses numerous variations, some serious, some amusing....” https://dejakudiary.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/shared-autumns/
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