Introduction
Here is a round-up of our themes and prompts on THE DAILY HAIKU this week and a chance to repost your favourites, write new ones, share with friends, also spread more haiku love and creativity. Our starting point for writing haiku is 3 lines of 5/7/5 syllables but this is a guide not a rule. Do explore adding photographs, artwork, music, sketches or other links to your haiku too.
Two of our popular strands are the Friday Night Renga and Midweek Slow Renga and here is a blog exploring this form with personal experiences of taking part in renga and here is the link:
Weekly Theme: SILENCE (one of our favourite all time themes)
Bonus Theme: LOSS
FRUIT
DISAPPEARANCE
MYSTICAL
CHAOS
CLARITY
FRIENDSHIP
FALLING
CHOOSE AN OBJECT FROM YOUR ROOM and write a haiku about it
LONDON
Musical prompt: ‘Three Little Birds’ by Bob Marley
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNBCVM4KbUM
First line renga lines to start haiku with BUBBLING WATER or WITHIN THESE FOUR WALLS
#WalkWithMe is an ongoing posting of a new feature to share a video of a walk for people to respond to with a haiku and share their own walk videos which can prompt haiku in turn. This could this be called Vaiku?
Link: https://twitter.com/TheGreatMargin/status/1352330615207637000
haiga
This is our Haiga Prompt from last weekend with another chance to respond to this image and write a haiku with the photo or a new photo and haiku or a stand alone haiku. For more insights into Haiga go to WRITING HAIKU: HAIGA – Where Image and Haiku Meet and be inspired by Marion Clarke’s wonderful examples and knowledge. https://thegreatmargin.org/conversations/conversation-11-writing-haiku-haiga-where-image-and-haiku-meet/
Some helpful advice from John Lanyon which help you get into haiku and have a go.
Also read his interview here: https://thegreatmargin.org/conversations/conversation-5-the-daily-haiku-interviews-john-lanyon/
A way into haiku. Spend time on your own in nature. Take your notebook. On one page record what’s happening in the natural world and on the page opposite record your emotions. Do this for a few weeks and then look for connections or contrasts and let the words come to you. Don’t chase too hard. See what fits together easily.
Decide if you want to be a rigid 5/7/5-er or whether you will just accept the lines that come. I think it’s generally better to avoid humour, abstraction and the obvious but you can make your own mind up. Learn all you can about Japanese culture (gardens, food, aesthetics, art, spirituality).
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Some favourites of my own haiku from this week:
we drift through dark days
a convalescence of days
yearn for cloudless skies
within these four walls
ornaments plot their escape
we emerge undated
within these four walls
a half remembered stanza
love letters and wax
within these four walls
armchairs sink into themselves
cushions keep secrets
this vase
we turn the crack to the wall
remember wholeness
a father
counts the skims from a stone
thrown by his son
tightlipped sky
mizzle dampens drowned moorland
I covet your silence
on the same path
yet somehow we forget
where we have been
wild ponies
white horses on the sea
magic in the air
Fruit: a haiku about haiku
haiku tree –
Ah! the gardener’s patience
Disappearance
the sigh
rips thine heart’s teeth out; then,
flies and flies.
Friendship
an oak butterfly
swathes the ball in velvet through
the long coarse carpet.
An old clock (An object from my room. For my grandfather.)
tik-tok the dead clock,
tarnished and yellowed, paints
in silver my dreams.
My favourite haiku ( that I have written) from 23rd – 29th January, 2021.
The Daily Haiku – 31st Weekly Theme, Silence.
where has the silence
of my mind gone – full of fears,
my ego has moved in.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021.
❤🧡💛💚💙💜❤🧡💛
The Daily Haiku – 312th Theme, Clarity.
A moment of clear
thinking amongst all the strife,
is a rare gemstone.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021.
💜❤🧡💛💚💙💜❤🧡
The Daily Haiku – 31st Weekly Theme Silence 4
one hundred thousand
deaths, the total yesterday,
sad beyond all words
©🦊V8xenOfVerse, 2021.
💙💜❤🧡💛💚💙💜❤
The Daily Haiku -/314th Theme, Falling.
From arthritic hands
third cup this week is falling;
pieces form jigsaw.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021
💚💙💜❤🧡💛💚💙💜
The Daily Haiku – 314th Theme (3rd)🎼🎶 Musical Theme, Three Little Birds by Bob Marley & The Wailers.
Three little birds sit
telling us not to worry;
oh my, talking birds!
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021.
💛💚💙💜❤🧡💛💚💙
The Daily Haiku – 315th Theme, CHOOSE an OBJECT in the room and write a haiku about IT/London
Purple, white and green,
Suffragette colours to show,
what the vote cost us.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021.
🧡💛💚💙💜❤🧡💛💚
Bonus Theme – Loss
loss is hard to bear
at times, but memory keeps
our loved one alive.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021
across the border
oranges tucked away … safe …
while the baby sleeps
#791stHaiku #fruit #conniepittmanramsey
01/23/2021-CPR 11:09am/CT Irving, TX/US
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within … a knowing …
between order and chaos
lives the flow of Tao
#796thHaiga #chaos #conniepittmanramsey
01/25/2021-CPR 2:37pm/CT Irving, TX/USA
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broken-in … au pair
ready for the long journey
old soles separate
favored color blue
adventures … secret laughter
paths only soles know
divided by feet
taken off … placed by the fire
old soles play catch-up
#425thHaiga #friendship #conniepittmanramsey
11/3/2020-CPR 4:06pm/CT Irving, TX/USA
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my hope is we all
say what’s on our minds and hearts
in our haiku group
lift ones if they’re feeling low
lift higher our joys
#38thTanka #friendship #conniepittmanramsey
01/28/2021-CPR 1:14pm/CT Irving, TX/USA
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object in the room
found it hard to put in words
turned out to be me
#814Haiku #objectinroom #conniepittmanramsey
01/29/2021-CPR 7:01pm/CT Irving, TX/USA
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above the wine shop
home to Texas Embassy
left an unpaid bill
#807thHaiga #london #conniepittmanramsey
01/28/2021-CPR 9:42am/CT Irving, TX/USA
in 1986 Texas finally did come to pay their debt 😊
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3 little hatchlings
try their wings … in a few days …
fledglings on their way
#806thHaiga #3littlebirds #conniepittmanramsey
01/28/2021-CPR 1:08pm/CT Irving, TX/USA
well, shoot! I forgot to include “loss”. Here it is.
loss of appetite
message through the telephone
no one there to hold
#817Haiku #loss #conniepittmanramsey
01/30/2021-CPR 4:04pm/CT Irving, TX/USA