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 prompter this month has been Peggy Hall Bilbro [3]. She has done so for the 6th time. Thank you very much for all you work, Peggy!
venice in winter
walking along the canali
to san marco
~ Sunny Place In Winter [4]
neighbor's cat
writhing on my back porch
sunny and no snow
~ Sunny Place In Winter
shadows hiding under trees
from the milky moon light
on the fresh snow
~ Shadow In Winter
the birch trees
are wearing hoarfrost
a hearse passes
~ Frost-Covered Trees
it's snowing
out of the fog
an aster appears
~ Winter Chrysanthemum
first primroses
still some snow at the edges
and the warbler's song
~ Bush Warbler
first plum blossoms
competing with snowflakes
watching from inside
~ Plum Blossom
rime ice
under the steps
the grass moans
~ Frozen Fog
walking along the canali
to san marco
~ Sunny Place In Winter [4]
neighbor's cat
writhing on my back porch
sunny and no snow
~ Sunny Place In Winter
shadows hiding under trees
from the milky moon light
on the fresh snow
~ Shadow In Winter
the birch trees
are wearing hoarfrost
a hearse passes
~ Frost-Covered Trees
it's snowing
out of the fog
an aster appears
~ Winter Chrysanthemum
first primroses
still some snow at the edges
and the warbler's song
~ Bush Warbler
first plum blossoms
competing with snowflakes
watching from inside
~ Plum Blossom
rime ice
under the steps
the grass moans
~ Frozen Fog
ghost lights floating
between moor and graveyard
we are to blind to see
~ Hitodama
no howling
only crunching steps
unter the wolf moon
~ Wolf Moon
they still chant
in the old abbey at the maar
no eruption due
~ Sleeping Mountain [5]
the icicles are hidden
behind the ice flowers
we huddle closer
~ Great Coldness
sleeping ducks
floating on water into a dream
of sitting ducks
~ Waterfowl Sleeping On Water
cold rain
icing the snowman
for a moment
~ Cold Rain
frosty morning
we talk less and less
what keeps the bus?
~ Frost
the death of barry frost
frost gripping me
~ Frost [6]
whale watching
out of season
not my thing
~ Whale Watching
neighbor's dog
chasing rabbits
he only wants to play
~ Rabbit
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. Please review the "Haiku Checklist" at https://www.graceguts.com/essays/haiku-checklist. I also recommend to read: https://www.nahaiwrimo.com/why-no-5-7-5
[3] https://www.nahaiwrimo.com/meet-the-prompters/peggy-hale-bilbro
[4] I've just read on of Donna Leon's novel, which play in Venice, but perhaps I thought of Thomas Mann's “Death in Venice” (German: Der Tod in Venedig), which I remember better from Visconti's movie [4a]. Or you recall the movie “Don't Look Now” [4b], which I remember better under the German title “Wenn die Gondeln Trauer tragen [When the gondolas bear mourning]; normally the German titles are abyssmal, but this time better than the English or Italian titles. Or you recall a trip to Venice like I do.
[4a] “Death in Venice” (“Morte a Venezia”) is a 1971 historical drama film by Luchino Visconti, starring Dirk Bogarde.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Venice_(film)
[4b] “Don't Look Now” (“A Venezia... un Dicembre rosso shocking”) is a 1973 movie by Nicolas Roeg, adapted from a short story by Daphne du Maurier, starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Now
[5] The picture shows Maria Laach Abbey [5a] and has been painted by Lukas Ruegenberg OSB [5b]. Laach means lake and is an old Caldera filled with water. I had this lake in mind, though strictly speaking it isn't a maar.
[5a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Laach_Abbey
[5b] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukas_Ruegenberg
[6] Barry Frost is a fictional character in the US-american TV series [6a] played by Lee Thompson Young [6b]. I admired his play and also how the crew dealt with his death – very moving performance especially by Angie Harmon as Jane Rizzoli.
[6a] Rizzoli & Isles is a US-American crime drama television series (2010-2016).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rizzoli_%26_Isles
[6b] Lee Thompson Young (1984-2013) was a US-American Actor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Thompson_Young
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