Haiku for National Haiku Writing Month – June 2023

 

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 for June 2023 has been Andi Nicks, who already had prompted in May 2017 under the name of Andrea Piscitelli Narciso. Parts of June I had been traveling in Mongolia in very remote parts [4].

荷尽已无擎雨盖
菊残犹有傲霜枝
一年好景君须记
最是橙黄橘绿时
赠刘景文
蘇軾
The Lotus doesn't face the rain with an umbrella
Chrysanthemum stems resist the frost
Don't forget the good times of the year
When oranges looked golden and tangerines jade green
Winter Scene
Su Dong Po [4]

so happy
with the eagle's feather
a magpie had left
~ feather

the wind speaks
from the beech wood hedge
please repeat
~ bush or hedge

out of the hive
so pretty and busy
even on chives flowers
~ hive

nesting season
even the red kite won't enter
the throttles' perimeter
~ nest

the beech seedlings
valiantly withstand the attack
of the green zombies
~ seedling

ants ate my parsley
but they are useful
in the forest
~ ants

lotus rising
from the muddy pond
daisies from the dirt
~ dirt

not a bucket
just a glass of wine
with this bouquet
~ bouquet

sunny day
the strimmer and I  
weed's armageddon
~ weed

empty snail house
as most panic rooms are empty
~ snail

the wild roses
climb the old birch tree
without a trellis
~ trellis

in the rain forest
liana covered statues
just a reminder  
~ statue

in my garden
the weeds put in /
an extra shift
~ garden

from gnome
to phantom
Stanley Beamish
~ gnome

frozen fountain
an icicle chips off
silently into the snow
~ fountain

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] Last blogpost on this trip: A Ceremony at the Lakefront of Üüreg Nuur
https://rheumatologe.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-ceremony-at-lakefront-of-uureg-nuur.html  
[4] The poem Winter Scene [冬景] has been written by Su Shih [蘇軾] (Su Dong Po / 1037－1101); he wrote it in 1090. Sylvia Chang [張艾嘉], a Taiwanese actress, singer and film director, published a song of the poem on her very popular album Childhood [童年] in 1981.
To listen:
Winter Scene [冬景] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9aVcI0VQRE (from a record with typical background noise)
Childhood [童年] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLcXT40goD8

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