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