Francisco Barrios

Our haiku prompts for 14-21 Feb

Thanks for your contributions.

Feel free to abuse these prompts any way you like.

North South
02/14 Pilgrimage Grapes
02/15 Note Morning Glory
02/16 High Peaches
02/17 Egg Quail
02/18 Friend Joy
02/19 Fresh Water Clover
02/20 Day Sail
02/21 Late Grasshopper […]

mount dying echoes—
hate being responsible
hate being responsible

#senryu

half-eaten sandwich
in the lower chamber
of her heart

#senryu
#senryusunday

butt drumroll—
our dog after another
trash-eating spree

#senryu #senryuslam #poetry

half-eaten sandwich
in the lower chamber
of her heart

#senryu
#senryusunday

mount dying echoes—
hate being responsible
hate being responsible

#senryu
#SenryuSunday

Thanks for your generous reading. 🙏🏻✨

goodbye notes
on the fridge—
help yourself

#senryu
#SenryuSunday
#DailyHaikuPrompt (note)
#haiku #haikupoetry

fleeting clouds—
all my care
unreturned

#haiku #haikupoetry
#dailyhaikuprompt
#poetry #poetrycommunity

山下り野菫で芭蕉に会う

down the mountain—
with the wild violet
I encounter Bashō

#俳句 #菫 #芭蕉
#haiku #haikupoetry
#dailyhaikupoetry (violet)
#poetry

a sprout in cooled lava—
the kipuka
greening

#haiku
#haikupoetry
#dailyhaikuprompt (spring)
#poetry

I'm more than glad you liked it. 🙏🏻✨

"Painting of the priest Yoshida Kenko" by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) - Chester Beatty Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=107136080

For today's senryū... a true story.

#川柳 ＃書道 #俳画 #senryu #haiga #SenryuSunday #haiku

north wind—
cold dust tickles
a sneeze

#haiku #haikupoetry
#dailyhaikuprompt (north wind)
#poetrycommunity

Gracias por tu generosa lectura, Manuel... Sí, especialmente porque el japonés te permite apilar escenas y, a través de las pausas y silencios, capturar distintos planos de lo que experimento. En inglés la prosodia es diferente, pero con los “phrasal verbs” pueden matizarse muchas acciones. 🙏🏻✨

腐れ木にハリモグラはむ火蟻かな。

rotten wood—
an echidna munching
fire ants

#俳句 #ハリモグラ
#haiku #haikupoetry
#dailyhaikuprompt (echidna)

we keep meeting like this! 🙃
today's #haikufeels #prompt is

earn

black lagoon—
catfish aim at fireflies
only stars

#haiku #haikupoetry
#dailyhaikuprompt (catfish)
#poetrycommunity

Our haiku prompts for 31 Jan to 07 Feb

The haiku season shifts with the new month.

Feel free to shift with it. Or not.

North South
01/31 Glimmer Sand
02/01 Twittering Scarecrow
02/02 Rain Velarian
02/03 Grove Corn
02/04 Barley Soaked
02/05 Warmth Catfish
02/06 Mend Undulate
02/07 North Wind […]

突風に高き竹林雪落ちる

wind gusts—
in the tall bamboo grove
snow shaken loose

#歳時記 #俳句 #竹林
#haiku #haikupoetry
#dailyhaikuprompt (grove)

A willow called “ahuejote”, used to stabilize chinampas and as a natural wind barrier. It has a tall upright shape.

A weeping willow, called “sauce llorón” in Mexico. It has a short downward shape. It offers a good shade, specially on riverbanks.

I see... There's a high probability that we are talking about different trees, since I'm a few miles away from Michoacan.

After a quick search, I found the ahuejote. It's a willow, yes, but it's a rather slim upright one. The weeping willow has a different, more downward shape.

No worries, you were right... Trees and fish may even have different names in different communities within the same country. 😵‍💫

Oh, I see... Yes, they are actually different, but willows are a huge family with way over 400 different species. The ‘weeping’ willow is one of these, but never heard it being called ahuejote in my community. Probably a different kind of willow?

¡Exacto!, el ajolote y el ahuehuete. 🙏🏻✨

A haiku in Japanese (and its rendering in Spanish) about garbage as a by-product of popular celebrations. In the background, a photo of female hands picking hot tamales from a steaming pot

供え物ゴミの神へタマレ皮

like an offering
to the god of trash—
tamale corn husks

#俳句 #俳画 #タマレ
#haiku #haikupoetry #dailyhaikuprompt
#haikú #haikuesespañol

Tonight's haiga is brought to you by @completethehaiga.bsky.social and yours truly.

#haiga #poetry #haikupoetry
#俳画 #蜻蛉

dragons

#completethehaiga 136 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka

A Japanese haiku (and its rendering in Spanish) about captivity of endangered wildlife and its dreams. In the background, the image of an axolotl by Mexican painter Jose Maria Velasco.

水槽にウーパールーパー柳の夢

fish tankー
axolotls dreaming
of weeping willows

#俳句 ＃柳 ＃ウーパールーパー
#haiku #haikupoetry
#dailyhaikuprompt

廃庭大きな蛙小さな蛙 #haiku

友と我歩みしを知らずや

my friend and I
walking—
if only I had known

#haiku
#haikupoetry
#dailyhaikuprompt (friend)
#俳句