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 prompter this month is Mark Stuart Farrar [3], who is providing prompts for the third time. Thanks for taking the effort! I've already seen some prompts that hadn't been used during the past few years and I guess that this isn't easy to achieve. Congrats!
lost friends
lost frequencies
keep searching
~ Frequency
cockroaches
travelling between continents
modern stowaways
~ Stowaway
good byes
and the ride to agadir
casablanca
~ Casablanca [4]
dit dit dah dah
dah dit dit dah dah
first contact
~ Contact
the speed of light
a barrier
not for SF writers
~ Speed
speedily
all memories
gone
~ Speed
clues
leading astray
enigmatic
~ Clues
the dunes
moving in the wind
shape shifting
~ Dune
dune – arrakis
the desert planet
the spice must flow
~ Dune
you can leave
the hourglass unturned
but not bolt time
~ Bolt
yellow gaslight
on the wet basalt pavement
still in my dreams
~ Gaslight
snow flakes
late arrival
but before christmas
~ Arrival
chicago
jeremy renner or harrison ford
both win
~ Chicago
no frog
at the old pond
just a stone
~ Splash
a joker or
at the end of the rainbow
only your smile counts
~ Joker
when I hold his knife
remembering granddad
~ Memento
sandra bullock
from station to station
and back to earth
~ Gravity
lost frequencies
keep searching
~ Frequency
cockroaches
travelling between continents
modern stowaways
~ Stowaway
good byes
and the ride to agadir
casablanca
~ Casablanca [4]
dit dit dah dah
dah dit dit dah dah
first contact
~ Contact
the speed of light
a barrier
not for SF writers
~ Speed
speedily
all memories
gone
~ Speed
clues
leading astray
enigmatic
~ Clues
the dunes
moving in the wind
shape shifting
~ Dune
dune – arrakis
the desert planet
the spice must flow
~ Dune
you can leave
the hourglass unturned
but not bolt time
~ Bolt
yellow gaslight
on the wet basalt pavement
still in my dreams
~ Gaslight
snow flakes
late arrival
but before christmas
~ Arrival
chicago
jeremy renner or harrison ford
both win
~ Chicago
no frog
at the old pond
just a stone
~ Splash
a joker or
at the end of the rainbow
only your smile counts
~ Joker
when I hold his knife
remembering granddad
~ Memento
sandra bullock
from station to station
and back to earth
~ Gravity
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/mark-stuart-farrar
[4] I've got nearly arrested for vagrancy in Casablanca (about 1974). I still love Mike Batt -: "Ride to Agadir"
"We rode in the morning
Casablanca to the west …"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7_y-F8VtSo
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