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]. Our daily writing prompter has been Mick Mezza [3], who had been prompting previously in March 2022 and September 2023. Thanks a lot, Mick! I really loved to recall my travels in Australia.
迴看天際下中流，
巖上無心雲相逐。
漁翁。
柳宗元。
Looking back to the sky, I am in crashing waves,
But the clouds move carefree over the cliffs.
The Old Fisherman
By Liu Zongyuan [4]
NORTH OF BROOME
I ONCE OUTRAN AN EMU
in my car
~ Emu
on horseback
through the outback
gotta wake up
~ Outback
black desert night
watching the stars in the sky
a feast in itself ~ Feast
black desert night
watching the stars above
a feast of its own
~ Feast – Variant
cockatoo
is learning to talk
got his cocktail, too
~ Cockatoo
oh, this bluey
hair as celtic as can be
chundering
~ Bluey
the last waltz
when everything is over
never ends
~ Waltz [5]
swan song
with black instead of white
wednesday addams' song
~ Black Swan
not ignoring
the red flag
best life saver
~ Life Save
the tide is high
not your number one
rip tide
~ Rip Tide
swimming
in the draining estuary
draining
~ Rip Tide
bleached coral reefs
and nemo in a glass bowl
prevailing sadness
~ Coral
at the bungle bungles
lying not sleeping
andromeda winks
~ Constellation
across the lake
palms shimmer at the edge
only sand on my palms
~ Mirage
neither flamingos
nor Jane Eyre
just a pink salt lake
~ Salt Lake
hip deep in the creek
water still running off
didgeridoo singing
~ Seasonal Creek
dingo
chasing the rabbit -
bingo
~ Dingo
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/mick-mezza
[4] Liu Zongyuan (柳宗元) lived from 773 until 819 and was a philosopher and politician as well as a poet. He is also known for his travelogues. Five of his poems can be found in the compilation of 300 Poems of the Tang Period (唐詩三百首). A total of four books of poems are preserved in the collection Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty (全唐詩) from 1706. The Qing Emperor Kang Xi (清康熙) commissioned it in 1705 and the anthology was published in 1706. It contains 48,900 poems by 2,200 poets in over 900 volumes. The main compiler was Peng Dingqiu (彭定求), who lived from 1645-1719, others were named: Shen Sanzeng, Yang Zhongna, Wang Shihong, Wang Yi, Yu Mei, Xu Shuben, Che Dingjin, Pan Conglu, Zha Siyu and others (沈三曾、楊中訥、汪士鋐、汪繹、俞梅、徐樹本、車鼎晉、潘從律、查嗣瑮等).
[5] Reminds me of: “El Ultimo Vals”, a song by the Spanish singing group
“La Oreja de Van Gogh” [The Ear of Van Gogh] from the vBasque Autonomous Community (Basque: Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCTsuXSSUz0
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