#MLMM Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, January 23rd 2019, skating

Chevrefeuille is the host today and says: Your task is to create a haiku or haibun themed “skating”. Try to create a haiku following the classical rules (short moment, seasonword, cuttingword, 5-7-5 syllables and interchangeable first and third line) and your haibun may count a maximum of 150 words. Have fun! i Steel blades clip…

#MLMM — haiku: first snow

http://gph.is/1hk0w3e   Chevrefeuille’s prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is first snow, where it may be a haiku or haibun.  I chose haiku.   Pinpricking iced flakes tap skin – and everything else; some melts, some doesn’t.

Sunday morning haiku

image link Getting ready to build the morning fire, I stood up from the wood burner and looked outside.  I saw a brown lump out by one of the fenceposts that isn’t usually there.  When you spend a lot of time staring at a particular place, you immediately notice if something is different.  I walked…

Alphabet haiku challenge — z

  Abigail Gronway’s Alphabet Haiku challenge is using the letter “z”.  Challenging, to say the least!   Zaftig zinnias, Zimbabwean zygomorphs, zealous zig-zaggers.     image link

tender goes the night

Earthrise, taken by astronaut, William Anders, on 12/24/68     Tender goes the night stealing like black velvet along the globe’s curves.

Alphabet haiku — letter V

vervet image link vole image link Velveteen vervets, vexed vagabonds, verily vanquish villain vole.   Alphabet Haiku Challenge — letter V