NaHaiWriMo 2021, Days 8-14
The prompts – from the NaHaiWriMo facebook group – are meant to inspire and evoke, not necessarily to be taken literally (though they can be).
Day 8: Tangerine
enticing
the colour, the juice …
then the tang
Day 9: Four Sticks
4 of Wands
the poles, a garland –
celebration
Day 10: When the Levee Breaks
lawns and weeds
explode in sudden growth –
all this rain
Day 11: Dazed and Confused
cold rain –
this time last summer
fierce fires
Day 12: No Quarter
new president
still seeks to prosecute
Assange
Day 13: Kashmir
‘pale hands I loved’
houseboats on the lake –
once upon a time
Day 14: Stairway to Heaven
full moon
over dark water –
path of light
Sharing with Writers' Pantry #57 at Poets and Storytellers United
I love the first one so much, it left me craving tangerine. "Dazed and Confused" made me sigh with relief, those fires were so scary. Thank goodness for cold rain.
ReplyDeleteOh, thank you! Very glad the first one succeeded in being so sensual.
DeleteAnd yes – no-one here was inclined to complain too much about our wet, cold summer when comparing with last year's, but rather to be deeply thankful.
I enjoyed all of these, Rosemary! I find oranges too acidic; tangerines, clementines and satsumas are more my kind of fruit, sweet and happy little fruits. I love the way you’ve used names of Led Zeppelin songs. My favourites are 'Dazed and Confused' – I can imagine the relief of rain after those fierce fires – and 'Kasmir', a lovely memory.
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed them, Kim. The names are not my doing; they are the prompts chosen by Michael Dylan Welch, the NaHaiWriMo host. I must have succeeded in writing something appropriate for each one, if you credited me with the titles too; that's good to know.
DeleteI now want a tangerine!
ReplyDeleteAnna :o]
The funny part is that I have never tasted one!
DeleteHow readers will compare some of the prompts with something they have experienced in their own past. Well they reminded me of incidents in my own past.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad they were evocative for you, Robin.
Delete"Dazed and confused" we still are
ReplyDeleteHappy Sunday Rosemary
Much💗love
Happy Sunday to you too, Gillena, despite dazedness and confusion!
DeleteI do the NaPoWriMo thing most Aprils, but never heard of this haiku thingy. Maybe I'll give it a whirl next time around... Really enjoyed your work here, Rosemary. Thanks for the lead-in!.
ReplyDeleteYou can find the NaHaiWriMo group on facebook, run by Michael Dylan Welch who invented the idea. February because shortest month for shortest poetic form. Guest presenters offer prompts for other months so theoretically one could write a haiku a day for a whole year, but I only do it in February. Some years I think the February prompts are so difficult that I don't, but this year's are OK so far.
DeleteDelightful and fun. I enjoyed "then the tang... full moon, rain, once upon a time, houseboats on the lake" so much!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you enjoyed them, Hazel.
DeleteFly me away ... to Kashmir please. These are delightful! Enjoy your week Rosemary!
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't think contemporary Kashmir would be much fun! See Rall's haiku on the same topic.
DeleteThese are gorgeous Rosemary--
ReplyDeleteAwww, thank you so much.
DeleteIs it unanimous? Everybody likes the tangerine!
ReplyDeleteHa ha, yes it does seem so! Just goes to show, we can't always judge our own work; I made it as good as I could, of course, but wasn't sure I'd succeeded very well.
DeleteI really drifted to a nice place with houseboats on the lake.
ReplyDeleteKashmir must have been a lovely place to holiday ... once upon a time.
DeleteAll lovely but I particularly liked the last one. Thanks for the intro ....Love writing these....soothes the frazzled nerves
ReplyDeleteThat's my own favourite, too.
DeleteI was looking for the nearest tangerine too. But Darling Eldest attacks those the second they come in the house.
ReplyDelete*Smile*
DeleteTangerines have a delicious way of working their magic on the eater!
ReplyDeleteAnd the reader, it seems. (Grin.)
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