NaHaiWriMo May 2013 Prompts: Alan Summer

# 1 asperity

thin walls

I press my hands against

my ears

# 2 blue

fading . . .

the slack sails on the old

seaman’s arm

# 3 curve(s)  ( haiga )

from bow to stern love at first sight

# 4 den

fox piss ~

I swear to keep the password

secret

# 5 echo

the wake

a Grey Jaco says hello

with her voice

# 6 found

spring concert his eyes in the crowd

# 7 green ( haiga )

breathing each other the beech and I

# 8 home

open sky ~

my sea kayak packed

to the bursting point

I’m on a kayak trip for the next four days. See you all later

# 14 necessities

brown rum the kayak packing list grows longer

# 15

bombardment strolling down the bazzar

# 16 pet

dementia ...

her hands still remembers

how to pet the dog

# 17 quandary og quietyde (haiga)

exhale . . .

the last ripple

settles

# 18 romance / risk

shall we . . .

a paper plane lands

on my desk

# 19 stars

desert sky

I reach for the golden star

around his neck

# 20 tales or remarkalble trees ( haiga )

shady beech a poet writes “there is a lovely land”

Last week on my kayak trip around the island Langeland, we passed this famous beech that suppose to be the one that inspired Adam Oehlensläger to write the Danish National Anthem in 1819 http://watersindenmark.blogspot.com/2013/04/dotw-10-adam-oehlenschlager.html

I even took a very unprofessional small video clip of the event

http://vimeo.com/66152826

# 21 uniform

side by side

outside the courthouse

angel wings

# 22 velocity or velour

silver glimpse ~

a shoalof needlefish

changes direction

# 23 weight / waiting

globalization ~

the weight of his

xenophopia

# 24 xeno

asylum center . . .

drops of sweat trickles down

his temple

# 25 yellow (haiga)

soft breeze I dip my paddle in rapeseed pollen

# 28 zero

zero this zero that diet accomplished

# 29 if your name was a haiku what would it be?

six or seven a white swan settles down

# 28 one line haiku

twilight hunting the first nightingale song

# 29 sandwich

one last swim

the smoked salmon

in my sandwich

30 # art / artifact

ice melt the grin on the tubilak’s face

http://www.randafricanart.com/Inuit_Tupilak_figures.html

# 31 flipside a childhood memory

fresh breath dad tells me he’ll stay