Tuesday, February 28, 2012

NaHaiWriMo...February Haiku


Official NaHaiWriMo ... one haiku for every day in February
Prompter: Michael Dylan Welch

2/1 (apples)
little bird
how many apples
from this one seed?

2/2 (boat)
midnight chill
how the wooden boats
echo

2/3 (catfish)
approaching anniversary
Namazu wreaks havoc
in their dreams

2/4 (dog)
our morning walk
my breath above hers
in the dog park

2/5 (eggs)
oma’s brush
upon the hollow Easter egg
again she asks the date

2/6 (frame)
Mount Desert
the sky too big to fit
in the frame

2/7 (grief)
twenty one springs
still I wonder if she waits
in the afterlife

2/8 (hat)
corner pub
the pattern of each tweed cap
as novel as the bald spot

2/9 (ice)
skidding down
a mischievous road
black ice

2/10 (jam)
snowfall
a morning full of toast
and cherry jam

2/11 (kitchen)
wet wool mittens
and soup on the stove
snow day

2/12 (laundry)
laundry day
not my color lipstick
on his dress shirt

2/13 (mountain)
56 years
still the moon rises
over the mountain

distant friends
what mountains lay beneath
your moon?

2/14 (nacho)
her valentine gift
found on eBay
a heart shaped nacho

2/15 (opera)
motherless spring
father introduces me to
Tristan und Isolde

2/16 (pool)
infinity pool
he weighs what it will take
to push her to the edge

infinity pool
suspended at the edge
fallen leaves

2/17 (queue)
queued
to shake the peas from their pods
thunder clouds

2/18 (rattle)
reconciliation ~
the muffled rattle
of her rosary

2/19 (sandals)
in moonlight at the water’s edge sandal-less

2/20 (talus)
up to her knees in scree
with each frost another crevice
in her face

2/21 (umbrella)
in the urn
three umbrellas and
a dead moth

2/22 (vent)
my incubus
the suffocating pressure
of the ventilator

2/23 (wig)
her bald head
finally brave enough
the toss the wigs

2/24 (any x)
summer camp
ripped from all my shorts
the XXL tags

2/25 (yellow)
cast on the floor
moonlight
and a yellow silk robe

2/26 (zip)
between L and M
his first flower to me
in a zip lock bag

2/27 (a bad haiku)
under the boardwalk
all the many broken shells
crying for band-aids

garden of roses
sunshine from the big blue sky
a stone in my shoe

2/28 e-gen haiku rewrite

original:
chambermaids soften
exceptional chime blushing
clamoring lame meek

rewrite:
her soft blush
as she changes the sheets
her chimes still chiming

2/29 (leap)
leap of faith
in the memorial garden
perennial seedlings

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