I started writing haiku in August, after finding an individual who provides a weekly list of prompts for each day. There is a community of people who participate in the challenge, sharing their haiku with a hashtag of #DailyHaikuPrompt.

I think there is a bit of joy similar to solving a puzzle when you can write a haiku that works.

I also like to not use the word that is a prompt for the day, instead, I try to evoke that word through the haiku. No judgment against those who use the word itself, it’s just something I try to do for the sake of making it more challenging.

Here’s a bit of how it went…

August 11, 2023: grin

This crescent moon knows,

witness to jokes left untold.

Cosmic mirth aglow.

August 12, 2023: boisterous

Black billowing clouds,

bickering chaos, starlings

bursting through the sky.

August 13: web

These connections bind

dust and time, filling spaces

life has left behind.

August 14: buzz…

Bees and flowered fields,

common fare tonight. I’ll risk

some beer and a joint.

 

Some days the prompt is a little more inspiring than others. Or perhaps somedays I wander around the point more actively than others. I often know when something isn’t quite right, or not in a tone I want to spread around. Trying to add light here…

August 15: spiral

Downward and inward,

racing exponentially

we find our demise.

 

Cosmic knowledge etched

in stone, wisdom shows

our universe flows.

 

Cosmic knowledge etched

in stone, universe flowing

into the unknown.

 

These days of pleasure

whose numbers are few, racing

quick, like morning dew.

 

Again and again

we sink further, losing sight

of hope and reason.

 

The bolded one is what I shared on Mastodon. I don’t share all of them on Mastodon. I don’t always save the “extra” ones either.

This next one isn’t so depressing. Honest.

August 16, 2023: reflection

This tiny puddle,

empty. Yet see how it holds

the moon and its light.

August 17, 2023: undulate

Twisting and turning,

rising and falling, sustain

life’s flowing rhythm.

August 18, 2023: wrestle

Meditate your mind.

Seasons change position, wind

speaks of balance lost.

August 19, 2023: fire

Fierce destructive light.

Transformative, humbling, pure

ambitious hunger.

August 20, 2023: catfish

Hiding in the slow

river’s deep shadows, tasty

when fried in corn meal.

That’s enough for now… If you want a daily dose, follow me on Mastodon!