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In this two week round-up we included NATURE as a weekly theme in response to the focus for Mental Health Awareness Week this year which ran from 10-16 May.#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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Daily Themes:
Treasure
Feathers
Rain
Laughter
Language
Over
Dawn
Wood
Flow
Beginnings
Dust
Wildflower meadow
Farewells
Paper
Solitude
Distance
Whisper
Leaf
Paint
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Impromptu Themes:
NATURE connecting with Mental Health Awarness Week’s theme
Call out for haiku that incorporate made-up words inspired by JABBERWOCKY by Lewis Carroll https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky
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Bonus Themes:
Loneliness
Freedom
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Weekly Themes:
Red
Nature
Otherness
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Seasonal Words
#11 Longer Days
#12 May
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First Line Renga
Drawing Down the Moon
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Afternoon light
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New Moon
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Walk away
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Musical Themes
MOONDANCE by Van Morrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFxGBB4UGU
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN by Led Zeppelin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkF3oxziUI4
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Haiga
Thank you for your amazing contributions in response to a request for photographs for this haiga relating to our theme this week of RED. Do respond to 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.
Thank you for the photographs from:
Karin Lindberg Freda, Elizabeth Tunstall, Neetu Malik, Catherine Brennan, Bridie Breen, Mary White, Marion Clarke, Sina Sanjari, Dominic Willis, Hilary Stringer, Gina Hobbs, Vivien Eliades, Katharine Angelina Love & Eljse Winnubst
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…/
4 Comments on “Conversation 89: THE DAILY HAIKU Themes 8th -21st May 2021”
Rich (Tanka)
I stand in the rain
Naked and exposed
A child praying “let me die”
God, his angels, ignore me
Laughter follows me
I open my mouth to speak
Stumbling and blocking
Speech lost to callous remarks
Catcalls, hoots and derision
Daily, dawn rises
Offering us a new day
With far horizons
Further away than night gives
Sometimes night comes in day time
A wonderful night
When I get into my flow
Rhythm sustains me
Audience hooked on my words
Ears listen to my story
From the beginning
Born under hypnotism
In a trance like state
Doctors don’t snap their fingers
I go through my life in dream
Acting on impulses
Driven by medical men
Cruel experiment
I concede the need for death
When I escape their clutches
Belated reply to you Richard, these are all fabulous tanka – love the lines ‘further away than night gives/sometimes night comes in day time’ such a deep evocation of the blurring of time personal and universal, experienced and dreamt, felt and meant… beautiful.
Love the tanka! All of them.
Some haiku from this period to share:
when I am gone
who will bother to keep
my dusty notebooks?
sell by date
paprika outlasted you
afterall
search for signal
soon forgotten when spotted
by a peregrine
painting sky
your blue
will never be mine
against high winds
wild ponies still – backs to the sea
where white horses race
pouring jasmine tea
cup of warm rain – mist green leaves
from somewhere else
my fitbit
records rewards rates distance
not epiphanies
this solitude
we do not see each season
slip to loneliness
your keepsakes
now mine
each a farewell
bumper sticker
how do you
haiku?
at the same old pond
ah no frogs again today
just tadpoles in mud
bluebells in brambles
brambles in bluebells – nothing
matters – there’s the sea
new moon
still keep a crack in curtains
to let the dark out
wish I could stay here
until each dandelion
turns into a clock
dust
let it lie
for another day…
set the fire
empty yesterday’s ash
begin again
is your day
spent waiting on
rain or sun?
arranging feathers
a quail misses the moment
of its sudden death
in woods returning
to when a leaf a feather
was treasure to me