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 13th year. [1] I enjoy writing to the prompts on Facebook. Here are some interesting links: [2]. The prompter this month is Patty Hardin, prompting already for th 12th time!
淚濕羅巾夢不成，
夜深前殿按歌聲。
後宮詞。
白居易。
Her silk kerchief was wet with tears as her dreams did not fulfill,
Though in the deep night the singing continued in the front hall.
A Song of the Inner Palace
Bo Juyi [3]
when the world
is radioactive is
my radio active?
~ radioactive
Han Solo
frozen in carbonite
better than cryonics
~ carbon
on thin ice
off balance
some call it love
~ balance
did you ever see
a periodic table
of bad elements?
~ element
no slides in presentations
anymore
but it still clicks
~ slide
the green meadow
in the distant nebula
not as green
~ nebula
the data we collect
ephemeral
as we ourselves
~ data
freewhweelin' on highway 61
blinded by -
a supernova I guess
~ nova
out of the lab
everything is not to scale
even love
too bad
good thoughts don't use osmosis
the bad ones do better
~ osmosis
no протон anymore
so much the better
but protons last
~ proton
little flies
buzzing around Bohr's head
heureka – electrons
~ electron
Ion Miller
in physics class
they call him an Ion
Ion Miller
a cat in his class
calls him an Ion
~ ion
organ playing
loud singing
church as organism
~ organism
neutron to nucleus
rock & roll
~ nucleus
not knowing the theory behind
haiku after haiku
~ theory
Links and Annotations:
[1] https://www.facebook.com/NaHaiWriMo National Haiku Writing Month
[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] Bo Juyi (or Bai Juyi / 白居易) is a poet and also a mussician and politician of the Tang dynasty. He lived from 772-848. Six of his poems appear in the compilation 300 Poems of the Tang Dynasty.
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