Conversation 104: THE DAILY HAIKU Themes from 17 - 30 July 2021

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Summer is upon us and features as our theme for our Haiga with some stunning contributions from TDH members after a call out for photographs.

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Do enjoy revisiting these themes or being inspired by them if you are finding them for the first time. Showcase your favourites, write new, reveal the bonus themes only to be found here on The Great Margin blog and share with friends not on social media.

3 Daily Themes

NOWHERE

OWL

THISTLE

CANDLE

PALM

MAGIC

FACE

STAIRWAY

BAMBOO

SILLY

GAMES

TAVERN

CORAL

PEARL

TWILIGHT

COMPASSION

FOOD

INTUITION

Weekly Themes

FORGIVENESS

MUSIC

Impromptu Themes:

OLYMPICS

Bonus Themes

SWIM

RUN

Seasonal Word

#21 July

#22 Sunflower

Slow Renga First Lines

COOL BREEZE PASSING THROUGH

MONDAY MORNING

WILL YOU STILL BE THERE

STILL WARM YOUR HEART

Photo Prompts

#5 Marion Clarke chosen by Mona Bedi

Photo Prompt#6 Hla Yin Mon by Marion Clarke

Musical Theme

Simon & Garfunkel HOMEWARD BOUND https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0oJ8_VTu3c

Joni Mitchell BOTH SIDES NOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQSlH-LLTQ

Haiga

We have had so many vibrant and imaginative contributions in response to a request for photographs for this haiga relating to our theme this week of SUMMER that we will have 2 haiga this month on this theme.

Do respond to the wonderful photographs featured here. 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.

Post haiku and photo haiku in the comments below and on Twitter @TheGreatMargin

Thank you for the photographs featured here to

Vivienne Tregenza

Gina Hobbs

Helene Guojah

Bidyutprabha Gàntayat

David Cox

Madeleine Basa Vinluan

Lindie Ninolakis

Katie Richards

Neetu Malik

Wendy Houser Blomseth

Marion Clarke

ENJOY.

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..

3 Comments on “Conversation 104: THE DAILY HAIKU Themes from 17 – 30 July 2021”


Amanda White
08.02.2021 at 12:25 pm

A few favourites from this time

thrum of wind
through summer meadow grass
aeolian breath

in the attic
my old violin
just sleeping

watching two swans
remembering kiss chase
mating for life

I’m still waiting
to throw a six
to start…

to be alive – know
laughter for no reason
lighten the darkness

from the train
a field of sunflowers – full bloom
passes too quickly

the last glance
from the turn in the stair
haunts my dreams

folding light
my pockets deepen
something for winter

early evening
floating on a calm sea
forgiveness holds me

violet hands to thrift
foxgloves give to thistles
humans pass on by

dismay light – we slow
there a barn owl skirts gorse starts
another night shift

take the nowhere path
through the last of the foxgloves
down to the sea

I did not forget
nor forgive but found
myself weeping

half a moon
going nowhere
until morning

first leaf falls
summer slips to autumn
– one more liver spot

at noon
the sea mist clears
a gift

Marion Clarke
08.03.2021 at 10:13 am

Are these all yours, Amanda? They’re, beautiful 😍

marion
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  Amanda White
  08.03.2021 at 4:42 pm
  
  Yes Marion I just scrolled back through, it’s been a good way for me to keep a copy of my haiku as they tend to be forgotten after I’ve written them each day.