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New Year Haiku 02009

patting the windowpane
kitten's first snow

Usually I get this up earlier, but TypePad has been having commenting problems; some of you know this already. If you would like to contribute, leave a poem in comments, or email me at blogdiva AT sbpoet DOT com, and I'll bring your poem up into this post. I'll leave this post at the top for awhile.

As you can see from that two-liner up there, I am not dogmatic about haiku. I don't count syllables. My small poems tend to be just that: little pithy poems. So don't worry about form.

Here's a person with plans:

DC in 08
July move to Charlottesville
Our home in 09

Posted by: meridith

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• New Year Haiku 2008
• New Year Haiku 2005
• New Year Haiku 2007

SEE ALSO:

• s m a l l p o e m s
• small poems @ Watermark
• Poem Dancing @ Watermark

Poem Dance!

We have the beginning of a poem dance. This is the one I posted yesterday:

at the end of winter
at the end of a warm day

dusty rain

and here is Niki's response:

after a day of sun
after working the garden
     sideways snow

from jenett:

in the heat of worry
in a storm of regret
  nothing changes

from Shelley:

under moss
under fallen leaves
forgotten acorns
 

before she left
before what passed for love —
who were you then?
 

from Paisley:

as the breath leaves
as the soul escapes
life begins

Next?

small poem ~ a poem dance!

UPDATED: We have a poem dance! Come dance with us! Add your poem in comments, or email it to me, and I'll add it to the dance.

 

new moon
spring rain
    begin again

                    ~ sb

 

       

 

inspiring thought
new chance
to understand

                    ~ jenett

 

 

sky
is hardest —
rainy day jigsaw

                    ~ Shelley

 

 

like a
breath of
fresh air

                    ~ niki

 

 

sun's jewels
sparkling all afternoon
across the tides

                    ~ bobbi

 

 

interiority
complex, a leaf
of fresh air                  

                    ~ Pearl

 

 

my dog stella
jumps and spins
within the snow

                    ~ Judith

 

 

From northern NH:

No shadows
outside my window~
snow suffocates spring.

                    ~ Linda Jacobs

 

 

eyes mirror
what lies deep
within our souls

yet change is set
like a story told
it must unfold

                    ~ Beloved Dreamer

 

 

Spring cold

I could water the world

through my nose.

                    ~ Cindy Smith

 

 

 

New Year Haiku

It's time for the Watermark New Year Haiku Collaborative Poem Dance!

You are invited to add your haiku in the comments, or you can email it to me at blogdiva AT sbpoet DOT com. Include a link to your site if you have one. Over the following few days, I'll pull the poems up into the post. Any haiku form is welcome -- including American Sentences.

Here are the contributions:

Almost time for the New Year Haiku

Three years ago, Andrew told me there is a tradition of writing a 'positive' haiku on the first day of the year. So I wrote one, and it became a collaborative poem dance. I forgot in 2006. We did one here at Watermark again last year, but I was late, and lax, and it was brief.

This year, folks are landing here again from searches for new year haiku, and I'm being much more consistent in my posting, so I decided to start early with a reminder to you all: the Watermark New Year Haiku Collaborative Poem Dance will appear here again this year, on January 1, 2008. That's Tuesday!

I'll put the post up early Tuesday morning, and you are invited to add your haiku in the comments, or you can email it to me at blogdiva AT sbpoet DOT com. Include a link to your site if you have one. Over the following few days, I'll pull the poems up into the post.

Any haiku form is welcome -- including American Sentences.

Here is a not-so-positive haiku, to send this year out:

year's end -
       the cat box full
              of old shit

 

 

RELATED POSTS:

• New Year Haiku 2008
• New Year Haiku 2005
• New Year Haiku 2007

SEE ALSO:

• small poems
• small poems @ Watermark
• Poem Dancing @ Watermark