Enjoy writing new haiku, sharing your favourites and encouraging friends to have a go who may not be on social media.
This Round-up includes our 1st Birthday Celebrations that also coincided with World Poetry Day on 21st March 2021. Amongst all the fun a weekend long renga that produced 800+ haiku and we also had our first zooms which were great fun. Do return to Phil Barnett’s celebratory JUXTAPOSITION photo haiku workshop it’s addictive https://thegreatmargin.org/conversations/conversation-57-juxtaposition-the-daily-haiku-celebratory-workshop-from-phil-barnett/
WEEKLY THEMES:
GATHER
& CELEBRATION
BONUS THEME: COMFORT
DAILY THEMES:
Pillow
Salt and Pepper
Mothers
Impermanence
Tomorrow
Slow
Lyrics
Patterns
Growth
Musical Instruments
Poetry to mark World Poetry Day
Soul
Paper
Mountains
Fern
Sea
1st BIRTHDAY WEEKEND: We had a feast of Impromptu Themes:
SILENCE
SPRING EQUINOX
SOUNDS? record and write or just record
CATS AND DOGS
WALK
1st line Renga: Who’s There… and I remember when…
On this bright new day and Before I go
SEASON WORDS#3 and #4: SPRING & MELT
MUSICAL PROMPTS: Write Haiku inspired by
The Beatles ‘In My Life’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBcdt6DsLQA
& A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hTsUwmXavk
3 Comments on “Conversation 63: THE DAILY HAIKU Themes 13-26 March 2021”
Firstly I would like to thank you all for a fantastic first year of fun, connection and creativity on THE DAILY HAIKU. We are a wonderful community and I am excited about next year.
Here are a few of my favourite haiku:
spring sun
hear the mountains weep
with joy and pain
empty pages
the letters – unconsoled –
we should have written
unopened
evening mist wraps our moon
in tissue paper
dying daffodil
a soul half sleeping
waits for rebirth
I’m looking
trying so hard to keep
your soul here with me…
I found you
you found me
poetry
this river
to me always half full
even when empty
my steps slow – I watch
my son race ahead – know I
have to let him go
slow dance this day
spring coaxes our moves
down to the sea
rise like the sun
celebrate today to gift
yourself tomorrow
this daffodil
waves goodbye to the snowdrop
hello to the primrose
sea glass eyes
yours collected from mine
always our last gaze
as violets blooms
I see you in your last dress
waving goodbye
Lovely Amanda , you deserve every moment of success of TDH. Best wishes for future poetic grandeur all the way too 👍
Thank you ❤️🙏
The Great Margin – Conversation 63, Favourite haiku from 13th to 26th March 2021.
waiting for vernal
equinox, day and night in
balance, spring arrives.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021.
we wore dresses with gathered waists when we were girls –
the shift dress changed that.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021.
the daily patterns
of life change, as you get old;
when you are in pain.
©🦊VixenOfVerse,2021
the sun shines in a
blue sky, birds are singing, all
is well as spring comes.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021.
slow and steady is
my mantra now but life is
better without haste.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021
🎵
in my life, friends mean so much to me, they have
sustained me through life.
lovers have come and
gone but now I have let them
go, with forgiveness.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021.
the older I get,
I work on the growth of my soul;
sensing death near.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021
silent afternoons,
cats snoozing, I write haiku,
perfect time well spent.
©🦊VixenOfVerse
walk with me a while,
though you are not here, you live
within remembrance.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021.
funerals should be
a celebration of life,
grief comes afterwards.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021.
on this bright new day,
loss of my friend makes me sad,
grief takes its own time.
©🦊VixenOfVerse 2021.
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I can’t say I heard
a nightingale sing when we
first kissed in moonlight.
but the earth moved and
I was swept away on a huge wave of passion.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021
grey sky, reflected
in grey sea, white-tipped foam waves,
creep upon the shore.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021.