NaHaiWriMo June Prompter Alison

‎# 9 space

water balloons

the space between us

filled with laughter

# 12 rain

good night kisses

the first drops of summer rain

on the tunnel tent

# 13 scary

nightmare

the sound of earth

on my coffin

‎# 14 Generate your own personal prompt today ( joint )

so many meanings

and I only knew one

- joint

# 15 Local buildings/statues

clicking cameras . . . 

if only they could hear your song

little mermaid

# 16 human body / four line haiku

shopping list ~

the mindfulness teacher

calls me back

to my right knee

# 17 another planet's season

summer storm 

I consider moving 

from Jupiter to Mars

# 18 sign

summer sun

a middle-aged man ignores

the first signs

# 19 the dark side

darkness

my childhood monsters

seem smaller

# 20 light

for the seventh time

a mother calls ~

midsommer evening

# 21 Smells, aromas, odours, scents.

island dreams ~

afternoon nap beneath 

the blooming elder

When I paddle to the small islands this time of year, I seriously consider moving. Everything just smells better out there. 

# 22 Look up ( haiga )

shortest night

and still no sign of summer

practice practice

# 23 underwear

danish dynamite 

a football player flashes

his underwear

# 24 Something that isn't there. The absence of something.

midsummer chill

the new mosquito balm 

untouched

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# 25 home

grounding

a pair of lambskin slippers

in the hallway"

# 26 line

twilight silhouette

I recognize the way he casts

the line

# 27 something small, a detail.

sunrays

on the bumble bee’s legs

yellow pollen

‎# 28 joking

a joke ....

the weather man keeps talking

of rain and rain

# 29 white

his last hours

I tell my daughter

a white lie

# 30 local

mmm mmm

from one tent to another 

at the food market

retreat

retreat

the healing herbs

in her garden

shortest night

flowing in

grey hair

NaHaiWriMo May 2012

Prompter: Sheila Windsor

# 1 roots 

old roots in new soil a Danish passport

# 2 mother

her voice ~

all the grey monsters

vanish

# 3 recycling

toilet paper

her look when I talk about

recycling

# 4 ryby

ruby beneath my feet her heeling hands

# 5 water ( haiga )

morning meditation a glimpse of something beneath the surface

# 6 intimacy ( haiga )

spring hush

when even the smallest word

is redundant

# 7 fear

eskimo roll

facing my fear again

and again

I nearly drowned once. So hanging upside down in a kayak really provoked my fear. It took me about a year, not to learn the roll, but to do it without my heart pounding like crazy

# 8 orange

the folds

in his orange robe

autumn dusk

reunion 

the smoothness of a carneol 

in my pocket

# 9 power ( haiga )

the power

or the ancient mantra

spring moon

# 10 ball

summer voices

the rhythmic bumps of balls

against the wall

We loved to play with 2 sometimes 3 balls up against a wall, while naming 10 different. names, cities, countries, vegetables and so on. If you dropped a ball ore missed a name, you passed on the turn. ohh I think I’ll have to go and buy some balls, and find myself a good wall ;-))

# 11 meal

spring rain

I cut the first rhubarb

for trifle

# 12 sun ( haiga )

kayak event

between sweeping rain showers

a sundance

# 13  broken

new lights

in the bathroom mirror

a broken illusion

# 14 child

splitting up

a little girl clings

to her teddy bear

# 15 rose

castanets

a flaming red rose

in her hair

# 16 drum ( haiga )

in   out

I travel on the beat

of a shaman's drum

# 17 voice

spring cold all that’s left is a rasping whisper

# 18 mirror ( haiga )

frameless

I blow a finger kiss

to all my mothers

# 19 tea

Buddha's blessings in the teapot green leaves unfurls

# 20 blue

Les Lanciers

my punk teenager with a blue

bow tie

# 21 open

her loss

I open my heart

and  listen

# 22 ink

kinesthetic~

the deep blue taste

of ink

# 23 Hortensia Anderson ♥

quietly the creak

floats into the ocean ~

we hold your words

# 24 perspective

meditation retreat in a distant corner increasing ligth

# 25 letting go / release

octopus ~

I realize I’m just 

a human

# 26 rainbow

laughter ~

a crystal prism catches

the spring sun

# 27 dragonfly ( haiga )

noon sun

I rest in the shade 

of a dragonfly

# 28 spiral / circle

power doodle

a child renames

cho ku rei

# 29 touch

soft coolness

against my lips

purple lilacs

# 30 found haiku

Pema Chödrön: No time to lose. Page 105

Cultivating mind’s inherent capacity to stay put is called mindfulness training. Mindfulness is like the rope that keeps the wild elephant from destroying everything in sight. The rope of mindfulness brings us back to our immediate experience: to our breath to our walking, to the book in our hands.

mindfulness ~

a rope around 

the elephant’s leg

# 31 smell

nahaiwrimo time ~

I raise my glass and sniff

the wine’s bouquet