Happy New Year! Hope your 2022 is starting off well. Time for our monthly poetry challenge at Fake Flamenco. If you’ve been thinking about throwing your hat in the ring, this is your time to shine. This month we will write a haiga; a haiku (5-7-5) with an image, in English or Spanish. You may choose the fossil rock image or your own.
¡Feliz año nuevo! Espero que el año 2022 haya empezado bien para ti. Es hora para nuestro Reto poético de enero aqui en Fake Flamenco. ¿Pensando en participar desde hace tiempo?, ahora es tu momento para brillar. Este mes escribiremos en español o en inglés una haiga; un haiku (5-7-5) con un imagen. Se puede usar la imagen del fósil o una propia.
Haiga
Each year abrades us
the sand and tides life’s scrubbings
improve our nature
–Rebecca Cuningham, 3 January 2022
Haiga en traducción
Cada año raspa
olas y arena pulen
nos mejoran, ¡sí!
–Rebecca Cuningham, 3 enero 2022
Los temas para la haiga son el tiempo, el desarrollo personal y el cambio. Favor de escribir un poema para todas las audiencias. Los escritores que tengan su propio sitio web, favor de publicar tu poema en tu blog y haz un enlace a este artículo antes del 9 enero. Los escritores que sean damas y caballeros andantes, favor de añadir tu poema a los comentarios abajo antes del 9 enero. Publicaré un artículo con todos los poemas el próximo martes, 11 enero. ¡Inscríbete! ¡Gracias y feliz proceso de escribir! ¡Olé! –Rebecca
Your themes for the haiga are time, personal development and change. Please make a G-rated poem. If you are a blogger, please publish your poem on your website and link to this page by Sunday, 9 January. If you are a poet at large, please post your poem below by 9 January. I will publish a post with all your poems next Tuesday, 11 January. Come join in! Thank you and happy writing!
¡Olé! –Rebecca
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Oooh-er. It’s the fourth already. Time to get my brain into gear! Lovely rock, great poem!
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Tiny fossil rock,
a force of nature put you
gently on my desk…
🙂
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Wow, first poem already! Very nice.
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I like this as it encourages me to think of the wonder of this fossil’s survival over the millennia: only to be discovered by you.
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Yes. But… the human touch is just a moment, a small geological accident in the fossil’s lifeless perennity.
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And a happy, thought-provoking accident.
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Hello Rebecca:
Here is my attempt😊at a haiga. Hope it meets the requirements. I will be posting it on my blog tomorrow with an accompanying illustration/photo.
Title: Change
shedding currency
woods full of spare change
fill autumn’s pockets
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Thanks for your poem, Suzette! I like how each lines leans on the next to add meaning. I appreciate your contribution. 🙂
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My pleasure, thanks for your astute observation, and the fun challenge. Cheers.
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I appreciate the compliment and your poetry.
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Thank you Rebecca. 😊
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I like this very much Suzette. It’s highly visual, and I love the sense that the riches we encounter aren’t necessarily financial.
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Yes, exactly…we are already rich, in many ways.
Thank you Margaret😊
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I’m just squeezing in under the wire here, and also publishing my contribution for the first time on my blog: https://margaret21.com/2022/01/08/a-january-haiga/. This was as ever a fun and stimulating challenge. Thank you!
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Thanks for your faithful participation and for publishing your effort on your site!
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It was all a bit last minute! It’s been a busy week.
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Appreciate your participation!
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Here is my contribution.
http://www.sandyroybessbugzy.com/2022/01/05/orange-and-green-from-the-garden/
I think I have done it with Roy’s. help. Sandy wrote it.
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Excellent, thanks so much to both of you!
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Next time I will publish it alone. Sorry about all the other stuff!
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No problem at all Sandy. Cheers.
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You’re kind🤗
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Less me, more other
Daily kindness, the action
Simplicity “IN!”
-Sandy
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My first try with your poetry challenge. Hope you will stop by where I posted the haiga on my blog.
I like your poem on nature and its effect on us.
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Thanks for joining us, Harvee! Welcome to the monthly poetry challenge at Fake Flamenco. Our weather and room are cold as well. I look forward to reading the book reviews on your blog.
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Looks like a great challenge this month, R! Xx
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Thanks, Carol Anne! Tempted?
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Here you go! https://susanpinmadison.wordpress.com/2022/01/09/january-poem-haigu/
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Great, thanks Susan!
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I’ve written something and it’s up on my blog! Hopefully you’ll like it……
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Great, will look soon! Thanks.
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