nearly so

Haiku Heights #151: True

In this week's Haiku Heights prompt, Leo the meme editor, inspired by poets Rita and Grace, is asking us to be more true to the haiku form. In this case the true form is said to be showing an image, rather than telling it. Now there must be a hundred and one opinions on how to write true haiku. It's a lot like gardening, where everyone has an opinion on the right way to nourish a flowering shrub. "Show, don't tell" is one of those cast-iron tropes of creative writing in general, not just for haiku. But I am a reasonable meme follower and so I'll see how my haiku comes out -- but though I'm the author, I disclaim responsibility for any unintended consequences which may follow...

morgueFile mensatic

gibbous moon runs true
straining towards full roundness
with a sallow glow

curiosity

Linking to Haiku My Heart Friday Summer Love

To me, summer really begins here in New England, when the bright orange Tiger Lilies bloom in the border between June and July. They always fill me with a hopeful, cheerful feeling.

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tiger lilies bend
in from their long banks to sniff
the busy roadside

And the Bellman Tingled His Bell

Trifecta Week Thirty-Three
A 33-word line from my non-upcoming, unplanned, un-drafted, unwritten novel And the Bellman Tingled His Bell

Padraig’s triple repetitions are a trifle nerve-wracking; until you realize that each makes the point more real for him -- each a mewling ghost born of his inattentive, rarely sober father’s unstudied indifference.

hearth

Sensational Haiku Wednesday prompt: confidence
-- using "confidence" here as in a private message

morgueFile pryan phoenix

whispered murmurings
and muffled collapses hint
at years of summer

no smoking

Incandescent ember of a frog has cool blue legs to keep from setting the rain forest on fire.


Linking to Succinctly Yours, Week #66 micro-fiction.

Using Design215 Character Counter

tuned

thick log of pink quartz
long and round as your bicep
rests on velvet moss

flickr Howard Dickins

Linking to One Single Impression #226: crystal

lantern

Cast-iron lantern

Paints the rock with rusty stains --
Grey wasp nest inside

Linking to Haiku My Heart

festival

Mikoshi wavers
Light, music, sounds of voices
Heavy on my back

Linking to Haiku Heights #150: support

Mistress Masham’s Repose

“Nei-g-h” whinnied Maria to the Professor as they waited in the Dungeon of Malplaquet for the Lilliputian Schoolmaster to reach the Master of the Hounds and tell him of the Vicar’s wicked plans.


linking to Trifextra Weekend challenge week 22: retell your favorite book in 33 words

potential

mineral water's
boundless energy capped:
lips purse as cork pops



Photo credit: Alvimann from morguefile.com

meditation

filter the water,
slowly boil, pour, watch tea steep,
infusing calmness

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Linking back to OSI meme: "waiting"

incomplete

coffee mug's unchipped
nothing identifies it
is it really mine?

ccbysa Alan Cleaver on flickr
link to poetry meme One Single Impression prompt "wanting"

fickle

Smell of suntan cream
Wind blocked by a towel and chair
Surf plays hard to get


Photo credit: juanarreo from morguefile.com

Prompt from the One Single Impression meme