Poetry nibbles: a Serving of Haiku

[alpharaposa]

Today I will prepare haikus for you! Comment with a prompt, and I will write you a haiku.

Da Rules:
1) Ingredients: Give me one or two words as a prompt, or link to a video or image you enjoy.
1a) Keep subject matter PG-13, please.
2) Recipe- all haikus today! Keeping it simple.
3) Share! You may share your poem, simply credit me and provide a link back. You can also share a link to this post to let others know about it!

Anybody is free to participate. Everybody gets one comment, so if you want to see more poetry, spread the word so that others will comment, too.

I work today, so I will start work on the haikus as soon as I can. Each haiku will be posted as a response to the comment requesting it, and I will post a round up of the bunch when I finish. I thank you for your patience.

(A bunch of haiku? A calligraphy of haiku? A contemplation of haiku? What would be the right phrase...?)

Comments

[jolantru.livejournal.com]

sakura. :)

[stryck.livejournal.com]

Washington D.C.
Spring brings us a festival
Sakura April

http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/cms/index.php?id=390

[jolantru.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful. Thank you. :)

[stryck.livejournal.com]

Totem

I want to be strong,
swift as wind, fierce in love, brave-
You, my exemplar

Rumex Acetosas was the name of an elven were-bear bard I played in a D&D campaign once. I requested a portrait of him for one of djinni's Icon Days. As he's a bard, I use him for poetry posts!

[laffingkat.livejournal.com]

It's certainly not a traditional topic, but how about Alice in Wonderland?

I adore haiku! Thank you for doing this. I ought to start writing more of these myself. :)

Drawing on the source...

[stryck.livejournal.com]

The impossible
Is my own invention, so
I can draw Muchness!

Re: Drawing on the source...

[laffingkat.livejournal.com]

Brava!

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

A handful of haikus, for alliteration's sake. ^_^

[stryck.livejournal.com]

I dunno... it seems rather plain for such an ancient art.

Hmm. But that could be the point, I suppose.

Ooo...

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Meteor shower!

Re: Ooo...

[stryck.livejournal.com]

A distant bonfire
Casts its sparks across our sky.
What did you wish for?

Re: Ooo...

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Thank you! This is beautiful. I have copied it on my blog, with a link back here.

[dianavilliers.livejournal.com]

A syllabary of haiku, surely.



(Here via ysabetwordsmith, and rather fond of haiku.)

[stryck.livejournal.com]

In this bright blue vault,
Lines of distance with no nests.
But I still found you.

[dianavilliers.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I love the last line. Reposted on my LJ, and linked back.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Your later post intrigued me--murderous haiku? Murder mystery haiku?

[stryck.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Well, you commented before midnight, so if you want a murderous haiku, I'll give it a shot. :)

[stryck.livejournal.com]

I see blood spatters,
Tumbled chairs, fading eye light.
My work here is done.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Cool! Well, gruesome, but cool-ly gruesome.