Conversation 101: THE DAILY HAIKU Themes 3 - 16 July 2021

Here is our regular two weekly round-up of themes and prompts for you to enjoy all over again, showcase your favourites, share new and encourage friends who might not be able to engage with TDH on social media to do so here.5

Daily Themes:

Greetings

Gifts

Grief

Conversations

Pick n Mix a day when you choose your own theme

Forever

Friendship

Corners

Wool

Moth

Mortals

Found

Noon

Skin

78

Bonus Themes

AIR

FIRE

9

Weekly Themes:

Resilience

Myth

10

Seasonal Words:

#19 Heat

#20 Shade

Photograph Prompt

Thank you to Arthur Chappell for suggesting this thread.

For our Photo #3 from Madeleine Basa Vinluan chosen by William Dean Ford

For our Photo #4 taken from a video by Mona Bedi chosen by Madeline Basa Vinluan – to watch the video go to the Image Bank in Announcements

Musical Themes

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q

You Know I’m No Good by Amy Winehouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-I2s5zRbHg

Slow Renga

YOU WILL FIND ME

FLOWER WHISPERER

HONEY FROM THE BEES

SUMMER POURED…. INTO THE GARDEN

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Haiga

Thank you for your amazing contributions in response to a request for photographs for this haiga relating to our theme of GREY. Do respond to the wonderful photographs featured here on the original post link https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4420612661284547&set=pcb.518223359245651

Here is a selection to respond to.

Write haiku inspired by what you see, thinking beyond the literal representations, by either choosing a stand-alone haiku or making a new image with a haiku written over it.

Thank you for the photographs featured here to Carolyn Crossley, David Cox, Lynda Flint, Jenny Shepherd, Katie Haigh, Nancy Andrews Esposito, Eileen Mounsey, Jackie Walton, Emma Croxford featuring her daughter Ffion’s road tunnel photo,Wayne Keene,

Melissa Moore, Mona Bedi, Keith Evetts and Paul Meyers

I would like to thank Sébastien Revon & Marion Clarke who have been instrumental in guiding this thread.

Read the blog on HAIGA – Where Image and Haiku Meet which includes insights and illuminating examples of photo haiku by Marion Clarke https://thegreatmargin.org/…/conversation-11-writing..