Prompts from Michael Dylan Welch's facebook group, NaHaiWriMo, Feb. 2019, week 1.
#1 dirty diapers
baby smells –
pungent calls for care
change to sweet
#2 thin wallsthin walls –
lucky I too like
heavy metal
#3 motion-activated light
slow journey
the moon swells and shrinks
near or far
near or far
salty taste
but texture bland –
my childhood
my childhood
#5 artificial colouring
love my white hair –
closer to dying
no more dyeing
no more dyeing
#6 pigs' feet
butcher’s shop –
rows of trotters
unmoving
#7 sidewalk
unmoving
#7 sidewalk
quick dog jumps
from hot bitumen
to grassy verge
to grassy verge
Yes, it's February again, time to celebrate the shortest literary genre during the shortest month – with some very challenging prompts!
Shared with Poets United's Poetry Pantry #439
Shared with Poets United's Poetry Pantry #439
Lol re the challenging prompts. I empathise with poor doggy paws on hot pavement.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed these, Rosemary. Very clever. I like changing the smell of a baby from pungent to sweet! And that you too like heavy metal. The play on words in the white hair poem was intriguing.
ReplyDeleteVery good, they must have been a lot of fun to create.
ReplyDeleteOh these are gorgeous and poignantly so, Rosemary!❤️ I smiled at "thin walls –lucky I too like heavy metal."❤️
ReplyDeleteWhat a wide range of senryu, Rosemary. I’ve got used to that baby smell, from my own grandson and from the babies and toddlers at Bounce and Rhyme! I love the third one, the slow journey and the moon.
ReplyDeleteWell spotted, Kim. Yes, prompts like these lead me straight to senryu rather than actual haiku! Fortunately that is permissible for this challenge.
DeleteI giggled at two (I soooo have been there). And four had a punch. You did a nice job taking on challenging prompts.
ReplyDeleteThe second one gave me a laugh. The pigs' trotters one is very mad too. I like insane poetry:)
ReplyDeletelots of fun in these haiku... the one I really love though was the pigs feet... it immediately painted an image in my head.
ReplyDeleteWow--it was like watching someone gracefully clear a set of hurdles as each poem leapt from the prompt. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you! It didn't feel graceful; glad it looks that way.
DeleteClever array of prompts that are likely to result in great presentations of works of poetry. Would have been a great help indeed!
ReplyDeleteHank
On the contrary, I found them difficult and would even have preferred an absence of prompts – but if I'm going to take on this challenge I might as well do it as set.
DeleteI enjoyed all of your short poems. The second and third are my favorites.
ReplyDeleteLove these! 4 and 5 are my faves.
ReplyDeleteI like these senryu. Can't stand babies especially with their funky smells but the pig trotters and heavy metal gave me a grin.
ReplyDelete3 lines to get a message across ............ well done!
ReplyDeleteEspecially liked #3!!
ReplyDeleteThese are super! No 3 is my favorite, I think. While it is, in itself, a lovely haiku it suggests a start to a more lingering reflection. Then again, that may be part of its brilliance.
ReplyDeleteLove them all, especially #3. Made me smile!
ReplyDeleteloved the moon one...very interesting set of haikus!!
ReplyDeleteI love each one the best, not one better than the rest!!
ReplyDeleteLove the ending of the first one, and how it gets there. Number 3 makes a whole lot of sense to me. And the 2nd made me grin--I've no idea what I'd do if I hated my neighbor's music.
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