Indian Kukai # 28 May 2019

Celebrating National Haiku Writing Month 2015 (Part 1)

Another full month of haiku writing! So glad I was able to join in again this year.

 

 

 

 

February 1 prompt: now

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February 2 prompt: noisily

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February 3 prompt: nervously

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February 5 prompt: nonstop

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February 6 prompt: nonchalantly

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February 7 prompt: nearest

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February 8 prompt: native

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February 9 prompt: nuclear

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February 10 prompt: novel

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Second Issue of Hedgerow Poetry Journal

     So delighted that my tanka sequence and haiga are appearing in the second issue of Hedgerow. Thank you, sweet Caroline, for featuring me among 12 other poets! It is a wonderful collection of poetry and artwork.  

 

     My untitled tanka sequence and haiga:

 

eternally lost
in a garden maze
I search for you
in places I need you
most

 

will I ever be loved
the same way as before
the willow hedges
of where we’ve been
still longs for you

 

entrenched
in my lonely heart
memories
like dandelions
full of wishes

 

before the day ends
counting morning glories
I have to accept
my life the way it is
without you

 

 

     Click here to read the issue.

 

Tanka Poets on Site (February 9 prompt)

you tell me

there's no day

I don't talk about him

streaks of foam

tail away from the reef



prompt: bubbles

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Tanka Poets on Site (February 3 prompt)

why wait for
my last sunset
I breathe in
all the colors
of the day


prompt: sunset
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Kathy Uyen Nguyen wrote a response for my tanka.

all the day's colors
you gave me
with your breath--
it is now that I understood
the song of beginnings

World Haiku Association (109th Haiga Contest)

 

 

 

World Haiku Association

(109th Haiga Contest, May 2013)