Haiku for National Haiku Writing Month – December 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]. Our daily writing prompter is been Linda Papanicolaou [3], who had been prompting previously in April 2012, October 2021, June 2021, and June 2022. Thanks a lot, Linda!

浮雲一別後，
流水十年間。
淮上喜會梁川故人。
韋應物。
Since our parting we have been like floating clouds,
And ten years have passed like flowing water.
A pleasant meeting on the Huai River with an old acquaintance from the Liang River
Wei Yingwu [4]

a party gag
chocolate covered broccoli
not main stream yet
~ Chocolate covered

even better than
two cupcakes
one shared
~ Cupcake

at the border
everyone is Maurice Chevlier
monkey business
~ Monkey

looking to the pan
not the chapati pile
monkey grabs two
~ Monkey

flipper
our best friend
at monkey mia
~ Monkey

playing together
violin and oboe
waves and beach
~ Violin

desolation row
playing the violin
no, not anymore
~ Violin

not too sweet
violin's glissandi
as the storm rages
~ Violin

already on the list
of endangered species
the gingerbreadman
~ Gingerbread

after your goodbye
through fog and darkness
ain't no mountain ...
~ Mountain

mountain range
reflected in the lake
first stone
~ Mountain

on a sunny day
dogs and kids love it alike
being left in a car
~ Animal Rights



those guanacos
eagerly watching
being photographed
~ Llama



first snow
on the alpaca pasture
never mind
~ Llama

all your work is done
by the brownies of Cologne
but don't look for them
~ Brownie

flickering
like a candle in the wind
still flickering
~ Candle

gazpacho
water may be the main ingredient
but all the rest tastes
~ Gazpacho

I'm a secret ninja
it's so secret that
even I don't know
~ Ninja

frequently asked question
do you accept all cookies
yes, all baked ones
~ Cookie

christmas season
is cookie season
if you bake them
~ Cookie

his disability
to notice other's disabilities
worst of all
~ Disability

slavery
is absurd and abominable
thanks abolitionists
~ Abolition

first decade of AIDS
this sorrow will never end
but there's hope now
~ AIDS

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/linda-papanicolaou
[4] Wei Yingwu (韋應物) lived from 737 (?) to 792 (?), 12 of his poems were included in the collection 300 poems of the Tang period. His 5-character poems (per line) were most praised, of which I have selected two lines from a poem. He is known for nature descriptions in his poems. 10 volumes of his poems were handed down in the compilation Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty (全唐詩). 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.

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