Introduction
This Valentine week we are filled with LOVE and collaborating with the brilliant 64 Million Artist in setting their Weekly Theme. LOVE is one of our favourite themes and appeals across all age groups.
The Challenge is still ongoing until Sunday evening and you can create a #LoveHaiku with hashtags #TheWeeklyChallenge and #64MillionArtists so your contribution is found. The link to the challenge is here and includes all the platforms where you can share your haiku as well as on #TheDailyHaiku: https://dothinkshare.com/the-weekly-challenge/the-weekly-challenge-15th-february-2021-love-haiku/
To support creating #LoveHaiku here are some mini bite-size workshops to inspire you: https://thegreatmargin.org/conversations/conversation-64-million-artists-weekly-challenge-love-haiku-workshop/
With another week of wonderful themes and activities do enjoy writing new haiku, reposting favourites and sharing with others not on FB or social media who might want to take part.
WEEKLY THEME: BIRDS/FLIGHT
DAILY THEMES:
BEFORE AND AFTER
LEAVES
YARN
HOME
RED
ROADS
MIST
BONUS THEME: SPRING
1st line renga: Start each haiku with one of these options: From here to there and Love is all around
Musical prompt: SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND by Pink Floyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGE9Gi0bB0
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Shine like the sun
Shoot like a comet
Spend quiet days in retreat
Consider this Sid
With best yet to come
You burnt out but didn’t fade
Sat on the dark side
Waving your arms in the air
Should we have missed you?
Mist
swathed in mystery
beholding
the ineffable.
It was inspired in a photograph of mine. A little lake, in the mist, surrounded by mountains in Ezcaray-La Rioja-Spain.
Beautiful and meditative.
Before and After:
long before
long after us
the Ocean
I absolutely love this Sébastien, the simplicity and clarity of expression is brilliant. A treat to discover this morning.
Happy that you like its simplicity. Often when I stare at the ocean, there is that sound that I know was there all along and will be there and I travel in time, wondering when this sound will disappear too.
Happy that you like its simplicity. Often when I stare at the ocean, there is that sound that I know was there all along and will be there and I travel in time, wondering when this sound will disappear too.
Some haiku I enjoyed writing from last week and a new one on Spring:
not so shy
a first daffodil
asks me to dance
tideless
flightless I anticipate
your next move
morning – robin’s song
visits my sill still until
one of us flies off
almost new leaves
anticipating Spring
I unfurl
Liver-spotted leaves
Old hands try to grasp and fail
Crack and break with time
I am leaf
holding on until
the last moment
Love is everywhere
Find it where and when you can
and let it find you
The Great Margin – Conversation 42, 13th to 19th February 2021.
My favourites by others: Jenny Shepherd
On today’s theme of Mist.
The gold-robed monk rings
the temple bell in the mist:
A blurred, candle flame.
This is a memory of a visit to the Buddhist monastery on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, over 35 years ago. Somewhere in the loft, there is the photo…
On today’s Musical Prompt, “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” by Pink Floyd.
Thank you, you piper.
You helped me find my diamond.
Now, we can both shine.
Amanda White
Love’s everywhere
Find it where and when you can
and let it find you
#TheWeeklyChallenge #LoveHaiku #TheDailyHaiku
tidelines
flightless I anticipate
your next move
Melissa Moore
theme: book
girl’s childhood book
no mention of scientist
or mathematician
Wendy Houser Blomseth
my tears fall again
memories of cards
exchanged
empty hands cracked heart
*
TheWeeklyChallenge and #lovehaiku and #64MillionArtists
Stan Phillips
Theme – Mist
It was so foggy/
when I was driving last night/I mist my turning.
DE Navarro
a wild goat’s red eyes
stare through the fence I leapt…
thwarted headbutt
[jump]
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021
These are my haiku that I have written between 13th to 19th February 2021that are my ‘today’ favourites, ask me tomorrow and the list could be different.
mist comes in with the
tide, it covers the winter
sand and my footprints
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021
death comes for us all,
but shine on crazy diamond
song gives you a boost
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021
from here to there, now
lost on a lonely road that
fades in the night’s mists
©🦊VixenOfVerse 2021
Love is all around
I hear it, smell, taste and touch
it, with eyes tight shut.
©🦊VixenOfVerse
the home of cotton,
Oldham attracted weavers
of yarn from all parts
of the country who
were looking for work; weavers
were well paid – those days.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021
I love you in the
winter when snuggling is so
good to keep us warm
I love you in spring
when cherry blossom falls like
wedding confetti
summer is when I
love being with you in the
open-air, so hot
I love you in the
autumn when leaves begin to
fall, we ride horses
I love you each and
every day, we spend our life
happy together.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021
**BONUS T heme: Spring**
small signs make us long
for the joys and warmth of Spring,
cold Winter clings on.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021o
Less than one year ago I wrote my first haiku poem. Consequently, I am very reluctant to post to THE DAILY HAIKU group page beyond the basic 5/7/5 lines. Nonetheless, on rare occasions, I am timidly sticking my head out from under my shell to share a series when they’ve all been written within the same hour of being “present in the moment.”
2/19/2021
cocooning under
covers til fondest verses
rise to the surface
iPhone rests on heart
hands tired of holding it
blue light extinguished
faintest window light
slowly brightens with sunrise
sunglasses at noon
Written at 5:00 a.m. while I’m still in bed composing, under the bed covers, reluctant to get out of bed on a cold, dark, winter morning.