Haiku for National Haiku Writing Month – March 2025 Second 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]. Our daily writing prompter for April 2025 is Shannon M. Blood, who already has been providing prompts for December 2022, August 2024 [3]. Thank you very much, Shannon!

昨夜裙帶解，
今朝蟢子飛。
鉛華不可棄，
莫是藁砧歸。
玉臺體。
權德輿。
Last night my belt came loose.
In the morning a lucky spider flew over my bed.
I won't neglect my makeup,
For my husband might return.
The Jade Dressing Table
Quan Deyu [4]

april fresh detergent
the spring breeze is drying
the happy laundry
~ Tax Day and/or National Laundry Day

c'mon
tariff on laughter?
laugh it off
~ International Moment Of Laughter Day and/or
National Ex-Spouse Day

playing scrabble
with dominos
check mate
~ NationalScrabbleDay and/or
International Creativity And Innovation Day

my walkabout
along my songlines
welcome to join
~ National Licorice Day and/or
Walk On Your Wild Side Day

my walkabout
along my songlines
please join
~ National Licorice Day and/or
Walk On Your Wild Side Day

time passing
in silence
too loudly
~ Day Of Silence and/or Barbershop Quartet Day

without safety pin
through the eyebrow
trying to remember her
~ National Siblings Day and/or
International Safety Pin Day

before the flood
they missed the last ark
the unicorns
~ National Unicorn Day and/or
National Dive Bar Day

next to the zoo
and the retirement home
no honking  
~ National Zoo Lovers Day and/or
International Pageant Day

no housework
– yes, captain obvious –
on national beer day
~ National No Housework Day and/or
National Beer Day [5]

no epitaph
besides name and dates
what a sad tombstone
~ National Tartan Day and/or
National Plan Your Epitaph Day [6]

firewalking
or walking the line
don't stop
~ no prompt

spring breeze
daisies and dandelions
and we of course
~ International Pillow Fight Day and/or
National Dandelion Day

awareness days
often remind us of old stars
rat pack
~ World Rat Day and/or
National Hug A Newsman Day

to the rain
I bow and look up
to the rainbow
~ Find A Rainbow Day and/or
Don’t Go To Work Unless It’s Fun Day

not liking
ferret branca, until:
fact checking
~ Fact Checking Day and/or
National Ferret Day [7]

about fossil fuels
even boomers get fooled
but not today
~ Fact Boomer Bonus Day and/or
Fossil Fools Day

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] Quan Deyu (權德輿) lived from 759 to 818 and was chancellor under Emperor Xianzong (唐憲宗). He is said to have been writing poetry at the age of three, and at the age of 14, essays were published in a 10-volume collection known as the "Collection of a Learned Child" (童蒙集). More than 200 of his poems can be found in the compilation "Complete Tang Poems" (全唐詩) from 1705. This compilation, like the well-known dictionary (康熙字典), dates back to Emperor Kangxi (康熙帝), who lived from 1654 to 1722. I am surprised that only one of his poems has made it into the compilation "300 Poems of the Tang Dynasty" (唐詩三百首).
[5] Here in Germany I've once read about public order officers being alerted because of a strange odour coming from an appartement - a guy lived there alone and tossed the empty beer cans into one of the rooms and they found thousands of cans.
[6] I have been looking at tombstones in Cologne and most of them only had names and dates; few of the old ones had quotes from the bible.
[7] Look here, if you want to fact check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernet-Branca

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