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 15th year. [1] I enjoy writing to the prompts on Facebook. Here are some interesting links: [2]. Our daily writing prompter this month has been Michael Dylan Welch [3], NaHaiWriMo founder has been prompting for us for us every year during February since 2011. Thank you very much, Michael!
birds and sun
vanish behind the horizon
coming home
~ Horizon [4]
ebb and flood
they come and go
we stay for a while
~ Tide
above the ice
the flickering aurora
and a green bear
~ Aurora
the moon doesn't mind
zenith or nadir /
why do we?
~ Zenith
getting older
where is the zenith?
always yet to come
~ Zenith
to the faint glimmer
of andromeda
i wave hello
~ Nebula
winter's solstice
the night is shivering
as we embrace
~ Solstice
the mud splashes
on a quad through the quagmire
the frogs just watch
~ Marsh
the marsh begins
behind the elephant fence
the herons fly there
~ Marsh
the wet basalt
reflects the yellow street lights
as the storm passes
~ Basalt
the entomologist
and the woman in the dunes
sand shifting
~ Dune [5]
the fjords follow
the plan of slarthy bartface
we are told
~ Fjord [6]
across the fjord
aurora borealis
a green lantern
~ Fjord
summer evening
total eclipse of the moon
a village event
~ Eclipse
the crater
is filled by rainwater
and happy people
~ Crater
as time goes by
water carves the canyon
as do tears
~ Canyon
the mountain goat
climbs at the edge of the abyss
life without fear
~ Abyss
vanish behind the horizon
coming home
~ Horizon [4]
ebb and flood
they come and go
we stay for a while
~ Tide
above the ice
the flickering aurora
and a green bear
~ Aurora
the moon doesn't mind
zenith or nadir /
why do we?
~ Zenith
getting older
where is the zenith?
always yet to come
~ Zenith
to the faint glimmer
of andromeda
i wave hello
~ Nebula
winter's solstice
the night is shivering
as we embrace
~ Solstice
the mud splashes
on a quad through the quagmire
the frogs just watch
~ Marsh
the marsh begins
behind the elephant fence
the herons fly there
~ Marsh
the wet basalt
reflects the yellow street lights
as the storm passes
~ Basalt
the entomologist
and the woman in the dunes
sand shifting
~ Dune [5]
the fjords follow
the plan of slarthy bartface
we are told
~ Fjord [6]
across the fjord
aurora borealis
a green lantern
~ Fjord
summer evening
total eclipse of the moon
a village event
~ Eclipse
the crater
is filled by rainwater
and happy people
~ Crater
as time goes by
water carves the canyon
as do tears
~ Canyon
the mountain goat
climbs at the edge of the abyss
life without fear
~ Abyss
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] Michael Dylan Welch. NaHaiWriMo founder and daily writing prompter for February 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. https://www.nahaiwrimo.com/meet-the-prompters/michael-dylan-welch
[4] Rick Daddario suggested to drop the "as we're" in the original: birds and sun / vanish behind the horizon / as we're coming home – that's a good idea, thank you, Rick!
[5] The Woman in the Dunes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_the_Dunes
[6] As some readers noticed: actually I remembered wrongly from the German Slartibartfaß, but I like it better with this misspelling.
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