Haiku for National Haiku Writing Month – June 2025 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]. Our daily writing prompter for June 2025 is Judith Gorgone, who already had been providing prompts for March 2012, October 2016, and October 2022 [3]. Thank you very much, Judith! 

終南陰嶺秀，積雪浮雲端：
林表明霽色，城中增暮寒。
終南望餘雪。
祖詠。
Before us rises the gloomy silhouette of the Zhongnan Mountains,
With its snow-capped peaks rising into the floating clouds.
The forests glitter brightly in the last rays of sunlight,
While the city in the valley is already getting colder.
Snow on the Zhongnan Mountains
Zu Yong [4]

no northern lights 
but light, light, light 
northern summer 
~ Northern Lights

all this 
turmoil of the cumuli 
just for a rainbow 
~ Rainbow

quick steps 
after the eruption 
etna tourism 
~ Eruption 

the mountain range 
reflected in the clear lake 
crystals both 
~ Crystals 

in the arctic 
watching polar lights 
solar flares 
~ Solar Flare 

looking 
into your pale face 
eclipse of love 
~ Eclipse

after 
the landslide victory 
nothing to govern 
~ Landslide

grab a book 
from the public bookcase 
an avalanche of books 
~ Avalanche

falling 
the train of the wedding dress 
and avalanche roses 
~ Avalanche

rumbling & tumbling 
the dust devil is busy 
still rehearsing 
~ Dust Devil

i'm a cyclone 
in the making 
brags the dust devil 
~ Dust Devil

spring breeze 
and the ashen light of the moon 
the colors are in the kiss 
~ Earthshine 

cyclone 
the spin doctors call it 
more a dust devil 
~ Cyclone

the cyclone sweeps 
the garbage dump and shares 
with generosity 
~ Cyclone

after the drought 
nature wakes up 
the rainmaker sleeps again 
~ Drought

fog wafting 
across the graveyard 
can't hide silent tears 
~ Fog

fishmarket 
the dead fish still swim 
after the tsunami 
~ Tsunami

Georges Danton 
beheaded by the guillotine 
during germinal 
~ Germination

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. Please review the "Haiku Checklist" at https://www.graceguts.com/essays/haiku-checklist. I also recommend to read: https://www.nahaiwrimo.com/why-no-5-7-5 
[3] https://www.nahaiwrimo.com/meet-the-prompters/judith-gorgone 
[4] Zu Yong (祖詠) was a poet of the middle Tang period. He lived from 699 until 746. He obtained the title of Jinshi (進士) in the imperial examination in 724, but then preferred a simple life as a fisherman and lumberjack. He was a very close friend of Wang Wei (王維). Two of his poems were included in the anthology 300 Poems of the Tang Dynasty (唐詩三百首). Thirty-six of his poems are preserved in the 1705 collection Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty (全唐詩), volume 131.
The Zhongnan Mountains (终南山) are located near Xi'an (西安), which had been the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and later had been renamed Chang'an (長安) and retained this name until the end of the Ming Dynasty. The Zhongnan Mountains were the religious center of Daoism.

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