Poetry Friday is hosted today by Elizabeth Steinglass.
Throughout the year there is a monthly peer reviewed contest for haiku enthusiasts. It’s a great way to engage with other haiku writers. Last month the Kigo word (season word) was “slow day.”
I entered this:
dogwood blossoms
unfold
one by one
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The Free form was “allusion.” Here’s my entry:
the sound of crickets
in the bee-loud glade
he plants nine bean-rows
(Thinking of Yeats…Innisfree]
© 2014 Jone Rush MacCulloch all rights reserved
This month I am working on haiku for “mosquito” (Kigo) and “midnight” (free form).
I am looking for interested people to “talk recklessly” ( as William Stafford would say) about poetry for a monthly interview for Poetry Friday. Here are a couple of examples; Helen Frost, Diane Mayr, Amy VanDerwater.
Please email me at macrush53-at-yahoo-dot-com. I would like to post every second Friday.
Happy Friday.
Happy Poetry.
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Very nice haiku, Jone. I like imagining the blossoming unfolding one by one, and the “bee-loud glade.”
Tabatha, you can thank William Yeatts for “bee-loud glade.”
The natural world in these two haiku sings loudly. Thank you.
Thank you.
I love these. The first one really does unfold slowly. I love the specificity of planing nine bean-rows.
The “nine bean-rows” is thanks to William Yeatts….
These are gorgeous, Jone! Love that “bee-loud glade” and those very precise 9 rows.
William Yeatts my muse for those words.
Did you get your poems in for May? Tomorrow’s the deadline! I had a tough time with mosquito and actually wrote around it!
Tougher time with midnight because it’s easy to be cliche with midnight.
Hi there Jone, I just shared Yeats’ Innisfree to a writer friend of mine for her birthday. Thank you for sharing these. Lovely! 🙂