Our haiku prompts for 10-17 January.
Sorry for the repeated words lately. Myopic selections.
Feel free to use any form of the prompt, or even not at all.
North South
01/10 Creek Smoldering
01/11 Sable Cut Grass
01/12 Winter Grass Potato
01/13 Cold Melon
01/14 Thaw Summer Moon
01/15 Rage Eggplant
01/16 Candle Sunset
01/17 Turnip Lotus
hydrangeas
pale blue in the rain
blue in the moonlight
--Masaoka Shiki
Almost a baseball
buried beneath the soft ground,
the turnip surprises
Extinguished candles
dancing in rhythmic patterns
of soft soot and smoke
One leaf on the tree
refuses to snap and fall -
rage against the change
Slow thaw - a slow drip
of words that come from somewhere
inside a locked box
A burst of the cold
traveling through winter clothes,
we hug ourselves warm
Snow melt happens, slow -
a barren head pokes through as
crown of winter grass
A cold scurrying
sable, digging on downward,
refusing its fur
