Category: Haiku-a-day 2014
A living performance art, this is my first year of creating a haiku-a-day. Inspired by writer Nicole Galland who founded The Haiku Room (a closed Facebook group*) on January 1, 2014, and tens of other writers therein, I committed to a year. A couple of us kept going, but I decided to switch to tanka (a five line: 5/7/5/7/7 syllable format) to further challenge myself in 2015, then a mix of both in 2016/17. Not always easy, but I learned from another in the “room” that when you get blocked, just lower your standards. It gets you through the block and good stuff always returns. Thus you may occasionally find some substandard work, but the practice has brought many gems to life that wouldn’t have otherwise lived.
The first year culminated in an anthology, Everyday Haiku, edited by Kristen Ringman, of which I am honored to be a part. https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Haiku-anthology-Kristen-Ringman-ebook/dp/B071J74KGJ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1513447409&sr=8-2&keywords=everyday+haiku
A Haiku a day
keeps the muse shining, raining
embracing her Earth
*A big thank-you to one of my favorite authors, Janet Fitch, for adding me.
Quote Heaven
Haiku 123114
All that is sees, feels,
creates through us, we open
our channel to source
Haiku 123014
Cold rain on her face
no longer cowering from
elements of life
Haiku 122914
How did she get here
Via labyrinths, worm holes
Shall she grow from here
Haiku 122814
Will romantic love
be wiped off Earth, sweet phone-calls
replaced by thumbs-ups?
Haiku 122714
We are Frankenstein
monsters extinguishing all
which brought us to life
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Haiku 122614
Our souls are sadists
inflicting intense pain so
we wake up and grow
Haiku 122514
New ideas abound
old ways have no hold on her
voyage into voids
Haiku 122414
Magic night setting
sun shining more and more now
Happy EVERYTHING