Featuring haiku written for the #HaikuSeed ripe
not
yet
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– Alex Fyffe / @AsurasHaiku
Tag: literary magazine
Sparrow / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary
Featuring haiku written for the #HaikuSeed sparrow
one sparrow —
how big the sky
can be
a pause in the rain
the meadow flooded
with sparrow song
– Luci, @lover__poetic
– Shane Pruett, @HaikuMyBrew
Heat / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary
Featuring two haiku written for the #HaikuSeed heat
summer heat
barefoot dancing
with mosquitoes
soaking heat …
I am the fly’s
sip of water
– Richard Barnes / @NaumaddicArts
House Plants / #HaikuSeed / Daily Haiku Prompt
#HaikuSeed / 20 Feb, 2022
house plants
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.
Burning / #HaikuSeed / Daily Haiku Prompt
#HaikuSeed /19 Feb, 2022
burning
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.
Mountain / #HaikuSeed / Daily Haiku Prompt
#HaikuSeed / 18 Feb, 2022
mountain
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.
Kimono / #HaikuSeed / Editor’s Garden
Today’s #HaikuSeed is kimono
Kimono is one of my favorite Japanese words to use in haiku. Cherry blossom is another one at the top of the list, obviously. Well, they are two of my favorites whether I’m writing haiku or not. I guess I romanticize Japan and many things from the country. I think it is so because I’ve read many haiku from the Japanese masters like Basho which mesmerized me with their beauty, simplicity, mellowness, sensory and visual descriptions; and somewhere in my head, all of it tied to Japan which must be an inherent source and ingredient in all these verses that have inspired and moved me when I first learnt about haiku all those years ago.
in the garden, a nettle shoot
tugs at her pink kimono
asking her to stay
Ripe / #HaikuSeed / Editor’s Garden
Today’s #HaikuSeed is ripe
humble cultivator, heed…
patience! harvest not
your haiku before it is ripe
Neighbour / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary
Featuring haiku written by Voimaoy for the #HaikuSeed neighbour
surviving the plague years–
waving to my neighbor
across the street
– Voimaoy / @voimaoy
Sparrow / #HaikuSeed / Editor’s Garden
Today’s #HaikuSeed is sparrow
Over the years sparrows inspired me to write a few haiku which I’m quite happy about and proud of. Sparrows are aplenty in our neighborhood and they are there in our backyard with their live commentary every morning as the sun shyly awakes. Even now, as I write this post, there are sparrows calling to each other, some darting this way and that between our house and the next. Such lively little creatures.
clothesline
wobbles
— a sparrow loses balance