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Haiku Challenge -- Topic: Winter

Last post 02-12-2008 7:38 AM by Goya Toledo. 44 replies.
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  • 01-06-2008 5:42 PM In reply to

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    Re: Haiku Challenge -- Topic: Winter

    Your line "assemblage from scraps of love" is so beautiful!

    Goya Toledo:

    Bellos !!!!! beautiful haikus!!!!! thank you, I love haikus, they are soft, precise, short....unique poetry.

     

     A snowed white heart,                                

    assemblage from scraps of love.

    It's a good life.

     

    WoW!!! No idea if this poem in English makes any sense...for a perfect haiku.

     

    GOYA

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  • 01-25-2008 8:37 AM In reply to

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    Re: Haiku Challenge -- Topic: Winter

     

    everything in its time

     

    Apples now give way

    to tiny sweet orange suns –

    Welcome, Clementines!

     

    KateSinging, who can't get enough clementines 

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  • 01-25-2008 9:44 AM In reply to

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    What a beautiful winter haiku!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks, KateSinging!!!!!!! here is another: TO WINTER:

     

    if the day were fruit

    if the day enwrapped me

    in his smell of old quince -

     

    With love from GOYA

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  • 01-25-2008 10:07 AM In reply to

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     O Goya, how I love that haiku!  Your first line sent me reeling on a tiny new poem -

    for you, Goya - 

    If the day were fruit

    I would bite through the skin

    and savor the bitter wonder of the rind

    the queen's ransom of the flesh

    and the mysterious nest of the seeds

    I would take it all to heart

    and set the little stem in one ear

    to help me listen to the wind

     

    yours gratefully,

    KateSinging 

     

     

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  • 01-25-2008 10:30 AM In reply to

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    Re: Haiku Challenge -- Topic: Winter

     Stan,

    Your swirling words make me catch my breath in wonder.

    Bo 

    “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”
    Mary Anne Radmacher


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    Re: Haiku Challenge -- Topic: Winter

    Another fruit poem, just for the sake of writing a tangle of words.

     
    If the day were fruit

    I'd grimace at the lemon's tang

    chomp into the green apple's tart

    trickle orange's sweet upon my chin 

    while all my concentration

    focuses on that coconut in the palm fronds

    which I cannot beg to drop into my lap

     

    Bo    (who sometimes wishes for that which she cannot have, while holding a cornucopia in her hands.)

     

    “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”
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  • 01-25-2008 12:10 PM In reply to

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    My goodness!!!!!!!!! Kate, WOW!!!! I do not have words ,

    I will treasured your poem to me forever, GRACIAS. This one is FOR YOU, KateSinging:

     

    The wind grazes me

    to the songs of sweet mangos.

    They elevate me.

     

    GOYA

    M
  • 01-25-2008 2:50 PM In reply to

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    Re: Haiku Challenge -- Topic: Winter

     Dry, flaky, white skin.

    I need some coconut oil.

    Where's the summer sun?

     

    Sorry.  All those sweet, fruity haiku made me freak out.  Embarrassed

    Bill 

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  • 01-25-2008 5:00 PM In reply to

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    It's okey Bill, winter is so many things!!!!!!!!!!!!...example:

    Life or/and death

    curators of silence

    winter balance.

    From GOYA

    M
  • 01-25-2008 6:47 PM In reply to

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    Re: Haiku Challenge -- Topic: Winter

    I hope you know I was just kidding about the "fruity" haiku.  I love everyone's poems.  I really like your last one, though, Goya.  It is very thought provoking!

    Bill

    Goya Toledo:

    It's okey Bill, winter is so many things!!!!!!!!!!!!...example:

    Life or/and death

    curators of silence

    winter balance.

    From GOYA

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     Goya, Gracias and Go raibh maith agat (that's Irish!) for that beautiful, beautiful poem.

    Mangos are calling me now because of your poem.  That's succulent and powerful indeed!

     

    KateSinging, delightedly
     

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  • 01-31-2008 5:15 PM In reply to

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    Aqui continua

    el frio del alma azul

    !Dios que silencio!!!

     

    Translation:

    "here continues

    the cold in the blue soul

    God!!!! what a silence!

    From GOYA

     

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    Re: Haiku Challenge -- Topic: Winter

    Cold wet nose
    Pressed to glass
    Frosty breathing
    Wishing, waiting
    Warmer bird weather
    My cat, Maggie

     I don't know if there are 'rules' to a Haiku as this is my first but I loved writing it!

    - chameleon

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    pencil 1Chamaleon: Yes!!!! yes!!!! I love it. Thanks,    from:GOYA

     This winter so long...

    I looked for a memoir

    to unfold  it in my words.

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    Re: Haiku Challenge -- Topic: Winter

    Thanks for such sweet words, Goya...

    Winter is so awfully long and I love the way that you use the word "unfold" - it is soft, and heartwarming.

    - chameleon

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