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Firstly I want to thank those of you who came to our recent zoom meet up since our first ones on our birthday weekend in March. It was wonderful to see again some of you from before and meet more members. We had fun introducing ourselves and gifting our items from nature to each other to inspire haiku. This was then shared in a post in the group to encourage others to join in the fun which you can see here
The last two weeks THE DAILY HAIKU has joined in with the second STAY AT HOME LITERARY FESTIVAL 2021. I set daily haiku challenges WHAT’S YOUR STORY TODAY? to encourage daily creativity and a way to diary with haiku. This was further shared in a blog post here https://thegreatmargin.org/conversations/conversation-79-whats-your-story-today-workshop/ In the first week of the festival I was thrilled to see some members from TDH at my lunchtime workshop for the festival ARE YOU A LEAF OR A TREE and a copy of this workshop if you have not yet tried it you can experience it yourself on this blogpost https://thegreatmargin.org/conversations/are-you-a-tree-or-a-leaf-haiku-workshop/
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This is a chance to revisit the themes and prompts from the last two weeks, write new haiku, post your favourites and share with friends not on social media.
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DAILY THEMES:
FIELDS
STONES
SOFT
BOXES
HOME
ENDINGS
BIRDSONG
DEEP
SONG
KEY
WATERFALLS
SILVER
SUMMER
SMILE
BIRTH
MIRROR
GREY
GREY4
BONUS THEMES:
SUN
RAIN
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WEEKLY THEMES:
COLOURS OF WINTER
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DECAY
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Seasonal Words
SeasonWord#9: GREEN
SeasonWord#10: MIGRATION
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Musical Themes:
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G-YQA_bsOU
Le Mer by Charles Trenet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXQh9jTwwoA
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SLOW RENGA First Lines:
Breathe in the emptiness
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Spring cleaning
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Lark song ascending
or
By the way
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Haiga:
5 Comments on “Conversation 83: THE DAILY HAIKU Themes from 24 April – 7 May 2021”
We take the high ground
Dribble through grasses
Before falling from a ridge
Splashing in a pool
Of mindful contemplation
With silver fishes
Reflecting sunlight
Shining on ripples
We could stay here forever
The sea is calling
There is a long way to go
We choose; travel on
More tumult falling
Before we broaden outwards
Like fat old rivers
We march and we roll
Proud, strong and angry
On our way to freedom’s sea
Great selection and absolutely love the More tumult one with ‘like fat old rivers’.
I have taken all the daily themes, weekly themes and bonus themes and created new haiku.
DAILY HAIKU THEMES
fields, stones, soft, boxes, home, endings, birdsong, deep, song, key, waterfalls, silver, summer, smile, birth, mirror, grey.
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silver waterfalls
soft grey water makes white foam
birdsong soars sky high
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Summer Solstice home
among the stones of Stonehenge
with birth of bright sun
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After endings come
boxes of treasure with key
brings small smiles and tears
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Deep song comes from fields
of cotton, huts – no need of
mirrors, await slaves.
BONUS THEMES
sun & rain
in one day, weather
has gone mad, sun, rain, snow and
cold, birds are confused
WEEKLY THEMES
decay & colours of winter
Decay is one of
the colours of winters, black
like a dark night sky
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021
Love these Carolyn what a feast of haiku
Looking back on some of my favourite haiku in this period:
dune
blown to sandglass
unmeasured morning
go softly
with your words you will still
be heard
petaled
those secrets we wore inside
then shared
embroidered rocks
seaweed sewn change of clothes
with every tide
sullen sky
colour of an old tooth
loose at the gums
our evening ends
putting the rubbish out
‘neath a split star sky
before I see you
touch and taste you – morning
scent of lemon flower
deep waits
in the corners
of conversations
I rest against stone
fields laced with dandelion clocks
seas time deep – wind moaned
old travels
call to me
I’ll get my hat
at night you drift by
with spider and stars again
to sing me to sleep
last brave narcissus
bent double against the storm
nothing lasts forever
swifts dance in air
sleep on the wing – do they dream
of here or there?
our last walk
my mother’s arm in mine
pressed leaves
brittle grass
splinters of summer
we unpick from hair
the old path waits
for me to take it
for a walk
summer uniform
seersucker pink – kiss chase
we all loved butter
the mirror
will never reveal
how you see me