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 this month is Paul David Mena [3], prompting for us for the fifth time (previously in June 2011, March 2015, December 2020, and September 2022). Thanks a lot, Paul! It has already been fun using anagrams.
荷笠帶斜陽，青山獨歸遠。
送靈澈。
劉長卿。
From the temple, deep, deep in the bamboo forest,
The bell announces dong, dong the evening.
Twilight is swirling around the woven hat
During the lonely return from the green mountain.
Farewell to Master Ling Che
by Liu Changqing [4]
needs a repatch
before chapter 5
~ Chapter and Repatch
chanting in trance
the nectar of devotion
cimbels and drums
~ Trance and Nectar [5]
on the DIAPERS
A SPIDER in DESPAIR
now in its net again
~ Aspired and Despair / Diapers, A Spider
not an art gallery
not regally opened
just a church
~ Allergy and Gallery / Regally, Largely
the silver spoons
are covered with patina
since granny's gone
~ Snoops and Spoons [6]
the greek people
RETAINS its RETSINA
and history, of course
~ Retains and Retinas
looking at you
while you're asleep
no time elapses
~ Elapse and Asleep [7]
PLEASE don't
fall ASLEEP
while life ELAPSEs
~ Elapse and Asleep
in the wake of the storm
a deposit of debris
lies, rage and hate
~ Deposit and Posited
the first GRENADE
ENRAGED the people
no war, though
~ Angered and Enraged
wind blowing through pines
I refuse to talk
until he is silent, too
~ Listen and Silent
the small flowers
are steadily conquering
the hard granite
~ Granite and Ingrate
the muezzin's call
silencing TANGIER's kasbah
save the sea gulls
~ Granite and Ingrate
not minding
the RED STOP sign
ka-boom
~ Deports and Sported
GREAT SIN
to be the ANGRIEST
keep RESTING A while
~ Angriest and Rangiest
getting lost
in Cologne's bermuda triangle
but so much fun
~ Alerting and Triangle
when acting
you don't drink castor oil
but pollux oil
~ Actors and Castor
costarring
words and puns
as dawn drops sun
~ Actors and Castor
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/paul-david-mena
[4] Liu Changqing (劉長卿) is a well-known poet of the Tang period. Eleven of his poems were included in the compilation 300 poems of the Tang period. And his poems were already well known during his lifetime. Six volumes of his poems were handed down in the compilation Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty (全唐詩). He also has been governor of Suizhou. It is surprising that the dates of his life are very contradictory. The year of his birth is given as 709/710, but also 725, and he died between 785 and 790. I translated 青 (qīng) as green, but it is a shade between blue and green. The confusion continues to this day, for example in Japan, where the traffic light phase is blue and not green to our eyes. There is a nice Quora discussion about 青: https://www.quora.com/In-Chinese-does-the-color-%E9%9D%92-mean-green-or-blue.
[5] Acutally if you don't want to dive into the ocean of Hare Krishna Consciousness, you don't need this book, but as I mentioned the title: Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta: The Nectar of Devotion. Complete Science of Bhakti Yoga. Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1970. ISBN-10: 0912776056.
[6] Reminded me of "Spoon" by the krautrock band Can. The song had been the signature theme of the popular German television thriller Das Messer (1971). Can played a free concert at Kölner Sporthalle in Cologne on February 3, 1972, which I naturally attended as distance had been only a mile from where I lived. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6PH7a4RptU
[7] Aerosmith!
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