I keep getting visitors who are looking for New Year Haiku -- which I had here, two years ago -- when we did a New Year Haiku collaborative poem dance:
Andrew tells us there is a tradition of writing a 'positive' haiku on the first day of the year. His is here, and Jill has joined in here. Mine is below; if you would like to add yours to the comments, I'll bring it up for a New Year's poem dance.
Here is this year's haiku from Andrew. It's a bit late, but I think it's time for me (and maybe you?) to do it again. Mine is for Niki, today's birthday woman:
old moon, wolf moon
just past new year's
celebration moon
& a quick note -- I've been a bit under the weather, as they say -- and that's why I'm so far behind on emails, responding to comments, and so on. Please keep on being patient with me. And -- thank you to Patia for the pointer to the moon names, which I expect to be using all year.
Very late [it's now August] I get back to this, to post:
From Pauline:
Winter Afternoon
Snow birds flit and swirl
Like remnants of windblown leaves.
Dusk descends too soon.
From Cathy:
Wednesday's full moon
brought no snow,
only false dreams.
From 8~) pam:
And we begin
to dance anew
filled with starry hope
and from Anne, a link to Moon Beauty.
My apologies to you all for these months of delay. Your poems are gifts, and I thank you for them.
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Glad you liked 'em!
I like the haiku.
Posted by: Patia | 03 January 2007 at 08:53 PM
I hope you're feeling better soon.
Moon themes are cool. My blog used to be called "Shadows in the Moonlight" and my blog name was "SilvermOOn" so you could say I'm just a tad biased. ;)
Enjoyed your New Year Haiku.
Posted by: gel | 05 January 2007 at 01:09 AM
Hope you're feeling better soon! I like haiku a lot, specially haiku about the moon. So I liked yours very much...
Posted by: Crafty Green Poet | 05 January 2007 at 03:19 AM
haiku - such fun!
Winter Afternoon
Snow birds flit and swirl
Like remnants of windblown leaves.
Dusk descends too soon.
Posted by: Pauline | 05 January 2007 at 07:08 AM
Hope you are feeling better now
Wednesday's full moon
brought no snow,
only false dreams.
Posted by: Cathy | 07 January 2007 at 11:07 AM
And we begin
to dance anew
filled with starry hope
8~) pam
Posted by: MarillaAnne | 18 January 2007 at 05:25 PM
Such a lovely haiku. I keep running into a "moon" theme everywhere i go lately. Perhaps you might like this reference to "moon beauty" as much as i did:
http://oldmermaids.blogspot.com/2006/12/moon-beauty.html
Posted by: Anne | 23 January 2007 at 05:00 PM