NaHaiWriMo Jan. 2014

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)

1: ascension

the basketball

springs from the small boy's hands

guided by the father

***********

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