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May 2010 Haikuthon

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31
lazy breeze stirs
heat heavy air
summer night

30
white tipped trees
deepest evergreen
tracks in the snow

29
blue yellow blue
moving like birds
kayaks

28
mist lingers
across rocky peaks
ink on paper

27
patched ground
the fertile earth
plowed farms

26
orange splash
among vibrant green
sunny garden

25
golden moon
circle in the sky
street lamp light

24
sky's fabric
meets earth's texture
an endless thread

23
winding ivy
choking wood to splinters
a coiled snake

22
gentle hills
of brown grass
a resting bear

21
the wind runs
through wheat fields
rustling, rustling

20
little bird
sings a solo
beside my window

19
lavender peaks
and pink hills
watercolour wash

18
on the bridge
looking down
sky in the river

17
white flowers
in full bloom
future fruit

16
red rock towers
hot stretch of road
joshua trees

15
palm tree sky
blue fades to yellow
silhouettes

14
blackest night
spread above
city lights

13
tropical trees
leaning over
the ocean

12
deep glow
at earth's edge
sunset

11
sitting quietly
listening to the rain
telling stories

10
rolling clouds
dark, wet treebark
mountain rain

9
muddy ground
sidewalk rivers
sprinklers

8
orange warmth
logs of white ash
dying embers

7
clouds covering
a heavy moon
crickets sing

6
shining emerald
beside subtle brown
a pair of ducks

5
brisk spring wind
scent of rain
ringing chimes

4
drops dripping down
into puddles
melting snow

3
sleepy pond-fish tails
move back and forth
and back and forth

2
red and yellow
bursting tulips
spring shades

1
feathering clouds
along the edge of the sky
flock on the wing
This is for the Haiku Club's May 2010 Haikuthon!

I've never done anything like this before, so I thought to myself, now is a great time to start! Comments and critique always welcome!

1: I read through some of the info on the Haiku Club's Eastern Poetry Forms journal about Haiku... I will never read haiku the same way again. Anyway, I was trying for a pivot-line on this one... and that's what I came up with. :)

2: Not trying anything fancy with this one, I've just had that image hanging out in my mind lately, so I thought this would be a good way to express it.

3: Tried doing some repetition with this one... not sure how I feel about it. :shrug:

4: I originally wrote the first and second lines switched... but I think it works better this way.

5: It was windy today, so this came to mind. I wanted to use multiple senses, so smell in the second line and hearing in the third.

6: I saw a pair of mallard ducks walking together in the grass. I'm pretty sure they live in this little stream area down the street from where I live because I see them there all the time. They're pretty adorable, so yes... I wrote a haiku about them. :D

7: Just writing about the moon. :)

8: Inspired by a dying fire I was standing next to... I've been thinking about it because the wind was blowing the smoke from the fire into my hair and now, hours later, I can still smell it around my face. I don't mind it, though.

9: I like writing about sprinklers for some reason. The second line was originally "little sidewalk rivers" but I decided it sounded better without it.

10: I live in the mountains and it rained today. It's always so beautiful the way the clouds roll across the peaks. And all the mountain greenery looks even brighter under a grey sky. :heart:

11: Still raining here. Trying again for a floating line.

12: Sunset. :heart:

13: Haha, it's STILL raining here! I was going to write a haiku about it, but I was getting tired of writing haiku about rain. So I decided to draw some inspiration from my desktop wallpaper. I dunno how I feel about it, but at least it's not about rain again. :)

14: I went to Las Vegas for my sister's wedding. I wrote this haiku while I was looking out the window of the hotel at the view of the city at night.

15: Las Vegas sunset.

16: I spent most of this day in the backseat of the car on the way home. That's pretty much all I saw, along with lots of cows and hay. Should joshua be capitalized?

17: I was looking at my strawberry plants today and they both have these little white flowers, but no fruit yet.

18: Just thinking about a reflecting water surface.

19: Okay. The mountains behind my house are AMAZING in the sunset. And one day my mom and I were talking about how they looked like someone painted them with watercolours. (My mom is a watercolour artist.) I originally had it with the first line as "mountain range" and the second line was "lavender peaks and pink hills", but that second line seemed so long and I thought a reader would be able to understand that I was talking about mountains with the word "peaks".

20: Just as it says, a little bird was singing all by itself outside my window.

21: I dunno... I just like wheat fields. :)

22: It was my mom's birthday today. And I wrote a haiku about hills.

23: And today is my birthday! Haha. Anyway, I was thinking about snakes, so... yes. No real reason behind it. :)

24: I was looking at a picture of a sunset over water and was intrigued by the thought of the horizon being like a thread.

25: The moon had a gold hue to it, but there were also street lamps when this haiku came to mind. I saw it and instantly these words formed.

26: I was sitting in a garden with bright orange flowers and it was a sunny day.

27: I was thinking about how farms look from an airplane.

28: In my house, we have these huge windows because we have an amazing view of these awesome mountains. When it gets rainy, they get misty at the top and they always make me think of ink drawings.

29: I was in Las Vegas again... I don't normally go there so often, it just happened to work out that I went twice this month! But one of my friends lives there so I was visiting her. Anyway, we went to Lake Mead and there were these kayaks there, so I wrote this haiku. I'm not sure if it makes sense... the second line was originally "like birds on the water", but that sounded clunky.

30: Okay, it was really hot, so I was thinking about winter. I just wanted to try writing a more wintry type of haiku. Unusual because I normally write things inspired by my current surroundings.

31: Just a simple one about a summer night. :)
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Good group of Haikus.

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