Tag Archives: haiku

Clarity (Haiku Heights Prompt 4/28)

waking, I comb out snarled colors/tangled dreaming groomed to clarity *** pure clarity of one drop of rainwater, poised on a blade of grass *** birdsong, like bright bells such rough, joyous clarity ringing in the day

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toothsome temptation

your lower lip pouts outward sweet lure for biting

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melody (today’s haiku heights challenge)

mourning dove melody balanced on my rail pulse–life’s melody quiet, consistent murmur humming beneath skin

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Zoe’s haiku (haiku chain)

My daughter, Zoe 12 now & full of questions asks what I’m writing haiku?  Let me try & she writes 5-7-5 3-5-3 quickly, 2 perfect haiku joyful collaboration we weave together

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bliss (haiku chain)

find your bliss Campbell used to say; where to look? the bright core inside all of us ecstatic encountered unexpectedly & we leap for more, but cannot capture it bliss finds us

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meteorology

late spring snowglazes hyacinthspink to white

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exercise: 3 haiku

hands deep in cool earth making room for lily bulbs I am planting spring one more species gone still, the earth is our mother and she will forgive this format does not suit my voice constricting

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