Ruminations On 30 Days of Haiku and One Small Poem

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    Today marks the last day of  the  HAIKU HEIGHTS  September Challenge. The prompt is 'free.'

 This daily exercise has been so illuminating for me.  I have written 30 poems (more or less)  and read hundreds of haiku written by students and masters of haiku all over the world. 

  What a wonderful learning experience and adventure it has been! Each of your poems and every kind comment has contributed to my enjoyment , and increased my knowledge and understanding, of this poetic form. I had so many 'aha" moments and often thought, "I wish I had written that."

   Thank you to Leo for hosting this challenge  and to all  the poets who participated  and gave me a whirlwind tour of haiku from around the globe and encouraged me to find my own  haiku voice.

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a chickadee

begins to whistle a song

  to the harvest moon

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           "Tell all the truth, but tell it slant," 

                                  

                                                Emily Dickinson 

Another Battlefield!!

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summer dusk

a million bullets fly

mosquitoes bite

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Another hook-up with HAIKU HEIGHTS for 'battlefield.'

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howling wind still screams

across a combat zone

trampled lilies

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Today's prompt at HAIKU HEIGHTS is 'battlefield.'  

Waltz

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two kites sway

on a dancing breeze

one-two-three

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Today's prompt for HAIKU HEIGHTS is 'waltz.'

Footprints

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no walking stick
on a burnt orange footpath

just a calling bird.

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the trees

 spill gold paint on my boots

October wind

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Today's prompt at HAIKU HEIGHTS