Haiku for National Haiku Writing Month – January 2024 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]. The prompter for January   2024 is Steve Ralph, who already had been NaHaiWriMo daily writing prompter for September 2021, July 2022 and April 2023.

城中相識盡繁華，日夜經過趙李家。
誰憐越女顏如玉，貧賤江頭自謙紗。
洛陽女兒行。
王維。
In the city she knows the rich and extravagant;
She visits influential and wealthy families day and night.
Who notices the girl from the south with a jade-white face,
That humble, poor and alone, washes silk yarn by the river?
Ode to a girl from Luoyang
Wang Wei [3]

a little rain
after the frost
cars learn skating
~ cars

fresh snow
with the cat's trail
my feet are too big
~ trail

the cat sleeps
in the sun on the porch
I use the other door
~ door

the witch
is still rattling
in my head
~ rattle [4]

Christmas eve
skinned packages
and some happiness
~ packages

summer's reeds
now sticks in the snow
remembering dad
~ stick

not looking
behind santa's beard
the gift of happiness
~ beard

a flock of cranes
driven by the north wind
I without a coat
~ dress

storm gathering
howling in the trees
the swallows fly low
~ swallow

for the driveway
the shovel is ready
the snow not
~ driveway

no gold
at the end of the rainbow
but in my tea pot
~ pot

in the snow
the paisley design of wheels
dad's old tie
~ tie

blue hour
walking towards the warm light
and whiskey in the jar
~ whiskey

late train
snow swirling on the tracks
wild geese pass
~ train

wind leafing
through the newspaper
we stay inside
~ paper

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] Wang Wei (王維) is a poet, painter, musician and politician of the Tang Dynasty. According to Wikipedia he lived from 699 to 759 and that matches my old textbook that I used for a course in Tang poetry a long time ago. He is one of the most important poets of the Tang Dynasty and that is why we find 29 of his poems in the anthology 300 Poems of the Tang Dynasty (唐詩三百首). The collection Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty  (全唐诗) contains more than 300 of his poems.
[4] If you like to dig deeper, here are the links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IseoYP6oR_M and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rattles

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