Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille

  • Katrina, You Bitch

    Today at the MindLoveMisery Menagerie we have Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille. The writing prompt is hurricane.   Ominous clouds roll world is too still, too quiet. Sky turns weird, greenish. One bar stays open downtown — aptly serving ‘hurricanes.’    

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  • The Truth

    The Truth

    Today at MLMM we have Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, November 7th 2018 the voice of the wind.   Autumn’s crisp, clean breeze (lacking Spring’s hyperbole) tells it like it is.        

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  • On Bubba’s Roof

    On Bubba’s Roof

    Written for MLMM’s Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille The theme for this week is “raindrops shimmer.”   Shimmering raindrops Sputter then evaporate On Bubba’s tin roof.    

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  • True Love

    True Love

    Our task for this week at MMLM’s Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille: Try to describe reality as you are experience it in your life. This way of writing haiku is called “shasei”, it’s invented by Masaoka Shiki, one of the four greatest haiku poets ever and the haiku poet who brought haiku into the 20th century.

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  • Fusion

    Fusion

    Written for Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. Here are the three haiku to use for your “fusion”. Three haiku by Basho (1644-1694) in a translation by renown Jane reichhold (1937-2016): falling sick on a journey my dream goes wandering over a field of dried grass * lying down with quilts over the head

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