Tag: haiku a day challenge
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Bookshelf Haiku: Haiku-A-Day Challenge #9
Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I am joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge in December. I think most people probably have bookshelves full of books they’ve read. But I rarely reread books, so when I finish one, I tend to keep it moving–to a friend, the library, my students. My […]
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Pomegranate: Haiku-A-Day Challenge #8
Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I am joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge. I have been trying to bring a haiku mindset to my daily tasks, and during the all-too-brief pomegranate season, that includes daily pomegranate prep. One pomegranate, split among three of us, my son getting the lion’s share. […]
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Basketball Haiku: Haiku-A-Day Challenge #7
Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I am joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge in December. Practice is over, but the coach keeps the gym open for an extra ten or fifteen minutes for the handful of boys who want to practice their shooting. I sit cross-legged on the gym floor […]
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Highway Haiku: Haiku-A-Day Challenge #6
Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge in December. I pass few cars in the sixty miles I drive to work over open prairie, but the highway still sometimes has the feel of an obstacle course. It’s a rare commute that doesn’t require at least […]
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Found Haiku: Haiku-A-Day Challenge #5
Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative in a daily haiku challenge for December. For my found haiku, I decided to mine one entry in a field journal I recently started to capture notes when I hike. One found haiku led to another haiku, and somehow I ended up with […]
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Haiku Like Issa 1: Haiku-A-Day Challenge #4 #sol18
Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I am joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge in December. Each day for this haiku challenge, I try to read two or three haiku, learn something about the form, and write a haiku. It doesn’t take very long to read or write a haiku, so […]
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Quotidian Haiku: Haiku-A-Day Challenge #3
Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I am joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge in December. There’s always that day early in a new challenge where it’s late and you’re wrapping up your day and winding things down and then you suddenly remember you’ve committed to a challenge and so far, […]
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Traditional Haiku: Haiku-A-Day December Challenge #2
Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative in a daily haiku challenge for the month of December. Today, I did some reading about the differences between traditional and modern haiku and attempted to write a traditional haiku. I focused on the seventeen syllable count as well as three elements of […]
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Haiku Generator: Haiku-A-Day December Challenge #1
Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I am joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a Haiku-A-Day December Challenge. I’ve written a few haiku as Slices and a few for Poetry Month writing challenges before. But it’s not a form I’ve spent much time with. I am looking forward to diving deeper into haiku this month […]
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