Winter / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary

Featuring haiku written for the #HaikuSeed winter

spring buds pop their heads, february trickery,
winter snaps, not yet!

winter flurries
the rush to put on
tiny boots and mittens

– Rhonda, @RhondaLBrown2

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Peony / #HaikuSeed / Feature

Featuring this brilliant haiku written for the #HaikuSeed peony

waters edges seen
peony bending for a
sip of moistened dew

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Shopfront / #HaikuSeed / Daily Haiku Prompt

#HaikuSeed / 27 Feb, 2022
shopfront

Try to use a kigo (seasonal word/reference/context) in your haiku, be it the prompt word itself or something else you find apt. Hoping some great haiku sprout from this Haiku Seed.

A Few Reminders About Writing Haiku:

  • A good haiku consists of two images juxtaposed together using as simple a language as possible allowing the reader to visualize the scene and fill all the things left unsaid.
  • Usually in haiku, one image acts as a fragment and the other as a phrase. These two are traditionally separated by a keriji (cutting word). In English, we make use of punctuation like ellipses (…), em-dash (—) and other characters to denote a cut/break between the two images. This break between the two images in the haiku has a lot of significance and plays a major role in how deep and vivid your haiku becomes in the reader’s mind. It is not merely a punctuation!
  • The #HaikuSeed prompt is just that – a seed. Your haiku need not feature the prompt word as long as the haiku is triggered from the prompt word and contains some aspect relevant to the prompt word.

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Age / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary

Featuring three haiku written for the #HaikuSeed age

care home singalong
the hum of forgotten words
fade

– Marilyn Ward, @deer_ward

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Summer / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary

Featuring this brilliant haiku written for the #HaikuSeed summer

scorching summer noon
a young tree trying to rest
in its own shadow

– Sarita Talwai, @TalwaiSarita

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Figure / #HaikuSeed / Daily Haiku Prompt

#HaikuSeed / 26 Feb, 2022
figure

Try to use a kigo (seasonal word/reference/context) in your haiku, be it the prompt word itself or something else you find apt. Hoping some great haiku sprout from this Haiku Seed.

A Few Reminders About Writing Haiku:

  • A good haiku consists of two images juxtaposed together using as simple a language as possible allowing the reader to visualize the scene and fill all the things left unsaid.
  • Usually in haiku, one image acts as a fragment and the other as a phrase. These two are traditionally separated by a keriji (cutting word). In English, we make use of punctuation like ellipses (…), em-dash (—) and other characters to denote a cut/break between the two images. This break between the two images in the haiku has a lot of significance and plays a major role in how deep and vivid your haiku becomes in the reader’s mind. It is not merely a punctuation!
  • The #HaikuSeed prompt is just that – a seed. Your haiku need not feature the prompt word as long as the haiku is triggered from the prompt word and contains some aspect relevant to the prompt word.

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House Plants / #HaikuSeed / Feature with Commentary

Featuring haiku written for the #HaikuSeed house plants

a new book
on house plants…
recently widowed

house plants
dying by the window
living on the wall

– C. X. Turner (Luci), @lover__poetic

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Daffodil / #HaikuSeed / Daily Haiku Prompt

#HaikuSeed / 25 Feb, 2022
daffodil

Try to use a kigo (seasonal word/reference/context) in your haiku, be it the prompt word itself or something else you find apt. Hoping some great haiku sprout from this Haiku Seed.

A Few Reminders About Writing Haiku:

  • A good haiku consists of two images juxtaposed together using as simple a language as possible allowing the reader to visualize the scene and fill all the things left unsaid.
  • Usually in haiku, one image acts as a fragment and the other as a phrase. These two are traditionally separated by a keriji (cutting word). In English, we make use of punctuation like ellipses (…), em-dash (—) and other characters to denote a cut/break between the two images. This break between the two images in the haiku has a lot of significance and plays a major role in how deep and vivid your haiku becomes in the reader’s mind. It is not merely a punctuation!
  • The #HaikuSeed prompt is just that – a seed. Your haiku need not feature the prompt word as long as the haiku is triggered from the prompt word and contains some aspect relevant to the prompt word.

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Winter / #HaikuSeed / Daily Haiku Prompt

#HaikuSeed / 24 Feb, 2022
winter

Try to use a kigo (seasonal word/reference/context) in your haiku, be it the prompt word itself or something else you find apt. Hoping some great haiku sprout from this Haiku Seed.

A Few Reminders About Writing Haiku:

  • A good haiku consists of two images juxtaposed together using as simple a language as possible allowing the reader to visualize the scene and fill all the things left unsaid.
  • Usually in haiku, one image acts as a fragment and the other as a phrase. These two are traditionally separated by a keriji (cutting word). In English, we make use of punctuation like ellipses (…), em-dash (—) and other characters to denote a cut/break between the two images. This break between the two images in the haiku has a lot of significance and plays a major role in how deep and vivid your haiku becomes in the reader’s mind. It is not merely a punctuation!
  • The #HaikuSeed prompt is just that – a seed. Your haiku need not feature the prompt word as long as the haiku is triggered from the prompt word and contains some aspect relevant to the prompt word.

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