early departure
Christmas decor packed away
right after New Year
wise men looking for the star
see its light through bubble wrap
This is for Frank J. Tassone’s haikai challenge, and I am also linking it with JusJoJan day 18.
On January 2nd
Haiku / Senryu / Tanka
Land of Sweet Dreams
Linked to JusJoJan day 15, which is also one-liner Wednesday. However, this was inspired by Chevrefeuille’s prompt about sweet dreams and Poets and Storytellers United myth-placed. I hope it’s okay that I basically made up my own mythical place.
Candy tall as trees
A chocolate river flows
Sugar spun to clouds :
The substance of children’s dreams
A place with life always sweet
Winter Transformation
Here are two tanka poems on the theme of transformation, for Heeding Haiku
Ordinary pine
Evergreen bedecked with lights,
Festive sentiments
Ornament memorials —
A shelter for wrapped presents
Thermostat heightened,
Scarves adorn shiverers’ necks,
Apple cider held
In hands ready to receive,
Leaning into winter’s day
December 12th
For Frank J. Tassone’s haikai prompt this week, we are writing about the Cold Moon, or the full moon of this month. It will happen on December 12th, which also happens to be the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, so I wrote this.
Guadalupe day:
Atop a cold, wintry moon
Woman clothed with stars
Anticipation
For Frank J. Tassone’s haikai prompt, about falling leaves this week.
Yellow foliage
Poised on the point of falling :
Waiting snowflakes see
Praying for Peace
This is for this prompt about Veterans’ Day. Follow the link to read more.
Put down your weapons —
Saint Martin’s intercession
this Armistice Day
For more on Saint Martin, whose feast day in the Catholic Church is November 11th, click here.
The Week After Halloween
This week’s Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille has the theme of Halloween.
Pumpkins and ghosts gone
Now on to Christmas season —
Wait, where’s Thanksgiving?!
