tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81662222893911672112024-02-08T08:27:40.139-08:00Haiku BonesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166222289391167211.post-11310250078723691732010-06-12T21:00:00.000-07:002011-01-07T05:02:22.051-08:00radiantWell beamish poets, this week's prompt <span style="font-style:italic">radiant</span> should let your haiku effulgence shine.<br /><br /><img src="http://mrg.bz/Dsgtm9" width="305" height="368" border="0"><br />Photo credit: <a href="http://mrg.bz/zOIkkR">hotblack</a> from <a href="http://www.morguefile.com/">morguefile.com</a><br /><br />Next week's prompt: swan<br /><br /><div><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6636111657068350752-6451068238391693870?l=haikubones.blogspot.com" alt=""></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166222289391167211.post-7846224853343289832010-06-05T21:00:00.000-07:002011-01-07T05:02:21.989-08:00quietlyThe weekly haiku prompt is <span style="font-style:italic">quietly</span>. Enjoy the other poets' haiku and encourage each other. See the <a href="http://haikubones.blogspot.com/2009/12/frequently-asked-questions.html">Haiku Bones FAQ</a> for ideas on how to interpret the prompt and write a haiku.<br /><br />Next week's prompt is radiant. Each prompt is open for 7 days and starts Saturdays at 9 p.m. NY City time.<br /><br /><img src="http://mrg.bz/zAr312" width="359" height="263" border="0"><br />Photo credit: <a href="http://mrg.bz/60M4Kt">clarita</a> from <a href="http://www.morguefile.com/">morguefile.com</a><br /><br /><div><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6636111657068350752-1989872282796838054?l=haikubones.blogspot.com" alt=""></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166222289391167211.post-9961723085297721072010-05-29T21:00:00.000-07:002011-01-07T05:02:21.981-08:00weekly prompt: MIRACLESC'mon, smile in wonder for this week's prompt . Take a big, broad, flexible, outlook and see where it goes. <br />Shhh!! <span style="font-style:italic">quietly</span> will be next week's theme.<br /><br /><img src="http://mrg.bz/0eqIno" width="194" height="299" border="0"><br />Photo credit: <a href="http://mrg.bz/n27Wap">duboix</a> from <a href="http://www.morguefile.com/">morguefile.com</a><br /><div><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6636111657068350752-3015930969968957483?l=haikubones.blogspot.com" alt=""></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166222289391167211.post-23279109154658167082010-05-22T21:00:00.000-07:002011-01-07T05:02:21.973-08:00weekly prompt: dewIs it a verb, a noun or a metaphor? This week's prompt has inspired a batch of clever and meaningful haiku from the Haiku Bones poets. Carrying on the soon-lost tradition of All Souls College, Oxford, next week's prompt will be <span style="font-style:italic">miracles</span>.<br /><img src="http://mrg.bz/UztQtj" width="295" height="127" border="0"><br />Photo credit: <a href="http://mrg.bz/52G87g">rollingroscoe</a> from <a href="http://www.morguefile.com/">morguefile.com</a><br /><div><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6636111657068350752-7381293447645160181?l=haikubones.blogspot.com" alt=""></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166222289391167211.post-80600764634918874322010-05-15T21:00:00.000-07:002011-01-07T05:02:21.964-08:00birdhouseWish I'd thought of this <span style="font-style:italic">hall-of-mirrors</span> birdhouse -- its marvelous wit activates childish wonderment.<br /><br />But the bigger wonder is when did we start doing this?<br /><br />Birds eat bugs. So maybe Fred Flintstone used to hang up a dried calabash as a nest to protect his prize tomatoes and peppers?<br /><br /><img src="http://mrg.bz/IjX74n" width="279" height="379" border="0"><br />Photo credit: <a href="http://mrg.bz/XfS11x">kabir</a> from <a href="http://www.morguefile.com/">morguefile.com</a><br /><br /><div><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6636111657068350752-7489850150652528516?l=haikubones.blogspot.com" alt=""></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166222289391167211.post-32032078085265446682010-05-08T21:00:00.000-07:002011-01-07T05:02:21.955-08:00wisteriaA local parking lot with a rusty chain link fence nearby is softened with scraggly wisteria.<br /><br />Every year it gives off a spicy odor which reminds me of old candy stores.<br /><br />No one waters it or feeds it. And since the fence separates two asphalt lots, it is not even clear what the wisteria is actually growing in. Shoppers, and smoking employees on break, seem to not even notice the thin wall of flowers.<br /><br /><img src="http://mrg.bz/JgCupR" width="433" height="290" border="0"><br />Photo credit: <a href="http://mrg.bz/s6iLi0">lightfoot</a> from <a href="http://www.morguefile.com/">morguefile.com</a><br /><br /><div><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6636111657068350752-5926976202121653407?l=haikubones.blogspot.com" alt=""></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166222289391167211.post-54198918446196373092010-05-01T21:01:00.000-07:002011-01-07T05:02:21.945-08:00hummingbirdsEarly May always makes me think of flowers and birds. In the Northeast US, we only have ruby-throated hummingbirds. I don't like to feed birds directly; I'd rather be lazy and smug and grow plants which attract birds. Did I mention lazy?<br /><br /><img src="http://mrg.bz/GKbKGj" width="496" border="0" height="324"><br />Photo credit: <a href="http://mrg.bz/wijH5a">bowlingranny</a> from <a href="http://www.morguefile.com/">morguefile.com</a><br /><br /><div><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6636111657068350752-4467725423802530863?l=haikubones.blogspot.com" alt=""></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166222289391167211.post-39540051732169948262010-05-01T21:00:00.000-07:002011-01-07T05:02:21.936-08:00hummingbirdsHummingbirds? Early May always makes me think of flowers and birds. In the Northeast US, we only have ruby-throated hummingbirds. I don't like to feed birds directly; I'd rather be lazy and smug and grow plants which attract birds. Did I mention lazy?<br /><br /><img src="http://mrg.bz/GKbKGj" width="496" border="0" height="324"><br />Photo credit: <a href="http://mrg.bz/wijH5a">bowlingranny</a> from <a href="http://www.morguefile.com/">morguefile.com</a><br /><br /><div><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6636111657068350752-7319537122551798379?l=haikubones.blogspot.com" alt=""></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166222289391167211.post-46663154866679612822010-04-24T21:00:00.000-07:002011-01-07T05:02:21.927-08:00night rain<a href="http://mrg.bz/KOkkVR"><img style="width:393px;height:289px" src="http://mrg.bz/KOkkVR" alt="" border="0"></a><br /><br />There's something comforting in a freshet of night rain. The curtains flutter in first, then a light pattering, and then a steady whisper and sudden cooling.<br /><br /><div><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6636111657068350752-9063371163451908917?l=haikubones.blogspot.com" alt=""></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8166222289391167211.post-72721241363367449372010-04-18T00:02:00.000-07:002011-01-07T05:02:21.918-08:00hunt<a href="http://mrg.bz/fjV2vw"><img style="display:block;margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;width:293px;height:416px" src="http://mrg.bz/fjV2vw" border="0" alt=""></a><br />Amazing how vines and plants hunt out water, sun, and support. That snappy tang when you pinch off stems. Pea tendrils reaching out for the chain link fence. Makes me want to get planting.<br /><br /><br /><div><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6636111657068350752-6567825961979018419?l=haikubones.blogspot.com" alt=""></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0