Haiku for National Haiku Writing Month – August 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 NaHaiWriMo daily writing prompter for August 2024 is Shannon M. Blood, doing so for the second time (previously in December 2022) [3]. Thank you, Shannon, for doing this job!

薄宦梗猶汎，故園蕪已平。
煩君最相警，我亦舉家清。
蟬。
李商隱。
I floated along like driftwood as a low official,
Let my old garden fall into dereliction.
I thank you for your authentic advice,
That also I may have a family life.
Cicada
Li Shangyin [4]

ephemeral
rainbow and golden pots
keep walking
~ Rainbow

day and night
ladyhawke and the black knight
reunited
~ Soulmate [5]



forlorn and forsaken
a homestead without prayers
tumbleweed and ghosts
~ Homestead

lord sandwich said
himself a middle child
in between is the best
~ Middle Child [6]

keep the apple tart
in the children's room
if you're diabetic
~ Tart

no sticky sand
in the hourglass
of life
~ Hourglass

a day of
scything and mowing
my muscles are pudding
~ Pudding

into the mountains
it's a wildcat venture
with german railway
~ Wildcat

no bargain
at the duty free shop
but boredom sells
~ Duty

harvest season
the scarecrows are still on duty
no vacation
~ Duty

on the dashboard
a hula girl wiggling
keep looking ahead
~ Wiggle

paddling the grotto
all sounds exploding
then a calm turquoise pool
~ Grotto

muffins can't decide
chocolate chips or blueberries
but I can
~ Chocolate chip

clove oil
on the katana competing
with the carnation
~ Cloves

still looking at
the old coloring book
the kid lives far away
~ Coloring book

no pagans
in the kingdom of pagan
taking refuge
~ Pagan

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] https://www.nahaiwrimo.com/meet-the-prompters/shannon-m-blood
[4] Li Shangyin (李商隱) lived from about 813 to 858 and was the last great poet of the Tang Dynasty. 24 of his poems were included in the anthology 300 Poems of the Tang Dynasty (唐詩三百首). About 550 of his poems are preserved in the collection Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty (全唐詩) from 1705.
[5] I had this movie in mind: “Ladyhawke is a 1985 medieval fantasy film directed and produced by Richard Donner and starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer.”  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladyhawke_(film)  
[6] Afterwards I've written this: Earl of Sandwich – a bit of History after all
https://rheumatologe.blogspot.com/2024/08/earl-of-sandwich-bit-of-history-after.html The picture is from the Big Island.

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