We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)

10.2.22

NaHaiWriMo 2022, week 1

This year our daily prompts are names of cities – few of which I'm acquainted with (this week, only London and Sydney).


London 


‘But the history!’ 

he said — while I still

hated cities.


1/2/22



Sydney


New Year’s Eve –

fireworks on the Bridge

defy COVID


2/2/22















 

 

Montreal


Montreal

gave us Leonard – 

Hallelujah!


3/2/22




Berlin


(1)


Julie Harris

in ‘I Am a Camera’ –

my Sally Bowles



(2)


forget Nazis

forget The Wall – I dream

of Cabaret


4/2/22



Cape Town


old age –

so many places

I’ll never see


5/2/22



Tokyo


rearrange the name –

find the birthplace of Reiki

via Kyoto


6/2/22



Moscow


(1)

coloured cupolas 

belie the imagined grey –

the usual photos



(2)


Moscow 

home of ballet, and 

the bogeyman


7/2/22


 


Sharing this with Poets and Storytellers United at Friday Writings #14 – choosing not to follow their prompt this Friday (which is Monster Madness).


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16 comments:

  1. Cressida de Nova18 February 2022 at 18:26

    Ha...these are great. I enjoyed all of them

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  2. Jim18 February 2022 at 18:47

    Good Job, Rosemary!! Enjoy the Haiku, you might get your fill before this is over.
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    I like Sydney lots
    Sydney surely likes me too
    Spent lots of bucks there
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    I like your evening picture also, of the bridge and the Opera House. I have a picture of me at a boat's rear under the bridge, it's posted twice in these:
    https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=sydney
    ..

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    1. Rosemary Nissen-Wade18 February 2022 at 20:09

      My photo was actually of my TV screen. I always watch the Sydney fireworks on New Year's Eve – from the comfort of my living room.

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  3. Gillena Cox19 February 2022 at 00:04

    Some nice ones. I took to researching and using google images to present photo haiku for this month's prompt.

    Have a nice weekend Rosemary

    much love...

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    1. Rosemary Nissen-Wade19 February 2022 at 13:12

      I've been doing that too, particularly as the weeks have gone on; but still like to go a bit tangential, or make it personal in some way, when possible.

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  4. Rommy19 February 2022 at 00:12

    What a fun mini-world tour! I hope that I will have an opportunity to see some of these places, someday.

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    1. Rosemary Nissen-Wade19 February 2022 at 13:14

      Alas, as the Cape Town one would suggest, I think my travelling days are past – just a bit too arduous, these days, getting to the places (even when borders are open). But I'm glad of what travelling I have been able to do, and also glad that our armchair travelling nowadays is so much more rewarding thanks to both TV and the internet.

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  5. Helen21 February 2022 at 05:29

    OH MY! Rosemary these tidbits are beyond wonderfully descriptive. Spot on!!!! Cannot choose a favorite, though Sydney on New Year's Eve ranks right up there ... way up and all sparkly. Cheers.

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  6. Magaly Guerrero23 February 2022 at 05:29

    You made this so much fun, Rosemary. I love the ones for Montreal, Tokyo, and the second one for Berlin. The contrast in the last one lingers.

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    1. Rosemary Nissen-Wade23 February 2022 at 09:44

      Thanks. I am particularly glad you liked Tokyo. I wasn't too sure how that one was working.

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  7. purplepeninportland.com23 February 2022 at 13:19

    These are wonderful, Rosemary!

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  8. Lisa25 February 2022 at 05:00

    Very nice! It's been many decades since I was in London, but at the time I liked it very much. I'm not one for most big cities.

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    1. Rosemary Nissen-Wade25 February 2022 at 09:22

      Many years for me, too. I did enjoy some aspects, just wasn't as overwhelmed as my hubby with the significance of it all.

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