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 has been Shannon M. Blood, doing so for the second time (previously in December 2022) [3]. Thank you, Shannon, for your work during August!
香霧雲鬟濕，清輝玉臂寒。
何時倚虛幌，雙照淚痕乾。
月夜。
杜甫。
My wife's curls are perfumed by the mist,
Cold moonlight lies on her jade-white arms.
When will we stand together at the window again
And let the moonlight dry our Tears?
On a Moonlit Night
Du FuDu Fu [4]
jasmine and
the neanderthal man's bones -
would buy a top instead
~ Fossil
fossils
to keep and to burn
just don't burn the museum
~ Fossil
charity banquet
or all you can eat
next in the octagon
~ Food Fight
firing drift wood
the barn filled with dead wood
no leftovers though
~ Leftovers
thinking of
my younger dreams
not forgotten
~ Dream
happy revelers
riding on carnival floats
... as for the vomit ...
~ Carnival
high time
we renew the pledges
we've never made
~ Renew
after the harvest
at a corner of the field
the scarecrows gather
~ Harvest
he sun enters
the harvested field
no trespassing
~ Harvest
my garden is full
of heaps and secret tunnels
dwarves at work?
~Dwarf
trenchtown uprising
war ina babylon
from gutter to heaven
~ Uprising
campfire
only one pot
sharing
~ One-Pot Meal
campfire
only one pot
lots of memories
~ One-Pot Meal
out of the blue
the old man on the ground
still workman’s hands
~ Senior Citizen
through the foliage
sun dappled sandy soil
moving
~ Dappled
the kids are grown up
still a dappled table cloth
oh, pasta napoli
~ Dappled
the rustic cupboard
not fit for a garage sale
bought it anyway
~ Rustic
the rustic cupboard
unfit at the garage sale
I took it anyway
~ Rustic
when in sri lanka
I chanced to meet a scholar
serendipty
~ Serendipity [5]
using credit cards
I didn't get your five dollar bill
what a pity
~ Serendipity [6]
barney's emporium [7]
full of dust and memories
time stops for a while
~ Thrift Shop
paper lanterns
soft music and your fragrance -
and the moon watching us
~ Paper Lantern
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] Du Fu (712-770) is one of the greatest poets of the Tang Dynasty [together with Li Bo (李白)]. 39 of his poems have been included in the anthology 300 Poems of the Tang Period (唐詩三百首) by Sun Zhu (孫洙), a scholar during the Qing Dynasty. 18 volumes of his poems have been preserved in the compilation Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty (全唐詩) from 1705. This compilation, like the well-known dictionary (康熙字典), goes back to the Emperor Kangxi (康熙帝), who lived from 1654-1722. In the poem, the poet is in the capital Chang'An (長安), today's Xi'An (西安), while his wife is at home, about 200 km away as the crow flies. The line 何時倚虛幌 is perhaps the Tang version of the song "When Will I See You Again" by The Three Degrees.
[5] Serendip is the old Persian name for Sri Lanka. I met Dr, later Prof, Harischandra Kaviratna in the village of Batapola. He was an ayurveda healer and a scholar in vedic literature as well as buddhism.
[6] I have the DVD, but I haven't seen the movie yet.
[7] Barney's Emporium, 1 Palmerston Road, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. Barney was selling all kinds of used things including very cheap books. I didn't find an old picture in my album, but Chrissie Cordery has published one on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.de/pin/379991287299772102/
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