Writing to prompts posted at the NaHaiWriMo site on facebook
(the prompt word did not have to be included in the haiku but was meant to inspire)
(the prompt word did not have to be included in the haiku but was meant to inspire)
1: ascension
the basketball
springs from the small boy's hands
guided by the father
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Airborne
I love take-off,
that sharp tilt and climb
to lose the ground
I love flight
up through foggy cloud
into endless blue
2: abyss
light-headed
I seem to swirl and fall
staying upright
3: art/artists
possum-skin cloaks
elders and children create
remembering
(Bunjilaka exhibition, Museum Victoria)
4: azaleas
travelling north
our only regret
the azaleas he planted
5: abbey
weathered sandstone
this peaceful old church
built by convicts
6: adrift
glassy sea
the bare-masted yacht
rests
7: amber
summer sunset
trees and water
radiate light
8: absinthe
bright green
they dance in the light
my bling things
9: Adam
laughing talking
dining with my friend
my stepson
10: anatomy
slow lizard
on splayed legs
no rain yet
11: admission
January
heat enters
closed doors
12: apocalypse
darkness
the bush fires
still burn
13: addiction
summer night
I remember
the child he was
14: acorn
strange seed
taking root in our soil
grows alone
15: Apartheid
apart
we hide from each other
ourselves
16: absent
your absence
is never absent
from my thoughts
17: ambiguous
grey clouds
mass in the sky
without rain
18: angel
I tremble
as the aweful voice says,
‘Have no fear’.
19: appreciation
the child blows away
the feather I give her
laughing for joy
20: arithmetic
one and one make two
two made one that was three
till my brother came
21: abandon
high summer
the cat by the fan
legs in air
22. Aphrodite
Spring morning
an empty shell
lands on the sand
23. answered/unanswered
laughing loudly
into the silence
one kookaburra
24. ache
heated pool
I float
without pain
25. apparition
since you died
wandering pointlessly
I’m ghost
26 after the storm
dripping leaves
a chorus of sparrows
clearing rain
27 alchemy (the transformation of a substance of lesser
value into one of greater value, e.g., straw into gold).
heavy rain
at last a bud
on the rosebush
28 apology
Australia Day
can we make the word Sorry
mean something?
29 absolution
too tired
for unforgiveness
falling rain
30 alternative
to rise
or fall?
sleepless night
31 afterlife
(for Pete Seeger)
at rest
in art and song
eternal life
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