February NaHaiWriMo - Day 29 - leap

So we come to the end of the February NaHaiWriMo with the prompt"leap", "leap year" or "leap day"!

The prompts throughout the month haven't been easy, but i managed to scrape through and enjoyed the whole experience of writing, reading and commenting and being commented on.
To be able to meet all the challenges successfully without missing a day... that too was reason for huge satisfaction!

Looking back though it seems that though i started strongly, (even if i say so), halfway through the month i lost the punch,my haiku beginning to get more and more flat. Maybe i couldn't connect with the prompts or i just overstretched myself, but my haiku limbs definitely started cramping!Probably what i need right now is a short break from haikuing...though i know i won't be able to stay away for long!

Many thanks to all my haiku mates who participated with me and egged me on whenever i lagged behind. Thanks much to Michael Dylan Welch--Nahaiwrimo's founder and this month's prompter!

And before I go, the final haiku of this month ;

spring day
the shimmering green
of the dragonfly's leap

February NaHaiWriMo - Day 28 - Haiku generator revisited

The haiku generator again. We had had a torrid time with this prompt last year during Terri Hale French's tenure and i had blogged about it here. Due to its populaity among the poets, Michael Dylan Welch thought it would be a good idea to use that prompt again. So there we were again in that madhouse where we had to write our own version/take based on the computer-generated haiku that this site threw at us. I looked at around twenty or so haiku in the hope of finding something that i could make some sense of. In the process i found such gems as these :

impersonal barbed
boatman poses, poses
orchid jangles, swift

and,


echo submerges
cheaply, lifeless oaks rusting
icicles fornicate

Then i settled on this:

azalea drips

wetly, malodorous some
oaf palpitates, cool

and this was my version:

despite
the empty mailbox--
azaleas in bloom

Also this,

scarecrows hesitate
sadly, oafs forgetting doors
recuperate, dim

And my version

scarecrows nodding...
he again forgets
his house number

which i later changed into:

pointing towards

his way home
scarecrows

Oh boy, am i glad that today's prompt is behind me now!! And if you ask me why i landed up with oafs every time, i have no idea!

February NaHaiWriMo - Day 27 - Bad Haiku

Twenty- seventh day and the prompt for today was "bad haiku" , having exhausted the alphabets now. Bad haiku always comes easy to me and i dug out this one from a few years back

distant gunfire
sends men scurrying...
thunder erupts

Also wrote this one quite effortlessly:

old dog barking at all things new
zip it

February NaHaiWriMo - Day 26 - Z

And so we come to the last letter of the alphabet, Z . The prompt was "zip". Not too easy and after writing and discarding quite a few none of which was postworthy, finally i settled on this.

to zip
or not to zip...
this damaged l̶i̶f̶e̶ file

February NaHaiWriMo - Day 25 - Y

Y for "yellow". A much saner prompt, the only rider being, the word "yellow" had to be mentioned, not only implied in the haiku. This was what I wrote:

a yellow breeze parting the grass three ducklings

February NaHaiWriMo - Day 24 - X

The letter X. The prompt was simply to write a haiku based on a word either starting with X or one that had X in it. Writing even a x-rated haiku was allowed. I couldn't bring myself to be serious enough, so this is what i wrote:

ex's exit--
he asks for
an extra special bitter

And then to make up for the flippancy, this one-liner ;

midnight express trailing the screech owl

February NaHaiWriMo - Day 23 - W

W for "wig".

Not that i was really crazy about the prompt, but thought, given time, perhaps i could come up with something. I found relating to the prompt really difficult though. A lot have already been written about 'cancer' and 'wigs', i didn't want to repeat it.Then i wrote:

fresh snow
a new wig
for the scarecrow

but it didn't strike me as terribly original. So i tried to write some more, none of which i liked. Finally i settled on this one, because by then i had realized there was little hope of coming up with anything better.

trying out her new wig--
the sparrow in and out
of the nest all day

To my surprise, it was quite well-received!

The bottom line is this ;

Nahaiwrimo prompts the need for a wig soon