NaHaiWriMo 2018 Week 1

NaHaiWriMo 2018 Week 1

Every year on facebook Michael Dylan Welch hosts National Haiku Writing Month (the shortest verse form on the shortest month) – except it's really international. Participants write at least one haiku a day, to prompts (which I often find challenging). Senryu are also permitted. We don't HAVE to write to the prompts, but I usually do; I think it's part of the fun. I'm sharing mine here as well, a week at a time.  

PROMPT #1: BITING INTO A TACO

that rich taste

the nearest I’ll get

to Mexico

PROMPT #2: RAILWAY TIES

from the road

hot metal shimmers –

disused line

PROMPT #3: GREEK COFFEE

Greek coffee –

sunshine remembered

in dripping rain

PROMPT #4: CREAM CHEESE WITH CHIVES

poetic –

creamy white page

punctuated


PROMPT #5: LISTENING TO THE RADIO

my father

intent on the war news –

clenched fists

PROMPT #6: CUTTING THE LAWN

the grass grows 

too high too fast –

Summer rain

PROMPT #7: WRAPPED IN A QUILT, WATCHING A METEOR SHOWER

8 of Wands –

move swiftly

from the doona

8 of Wands is the card of Swiftness. The arrows in the Rider-Waite-Smith deck and decks inspired by it always put me in mind of a meteor shower.  (This is from my copy of the Robin Wood deck.)