It’s time for the Watermark New Year Haiku Collaborative Poem Dance!
You are invited to add your haiku in the comments, or you can email it to me at blogdiva AT sbpoet DOT com. Include a link to your site if you have one. Over the following few days, I’ll pull the poems up into the post. Any haiku form is welcome — including American Sentences.
Here are the contributions:
new year’s day
eating black-eyed peas
from a chipped bowl~ sb
the next page blank white
as the next and the one after
filling the whole bookturning the page
reading again these poems
for the first time
~ Jeffrey McMullen
On New Year’s Eve, the
Fulfillment Center sent me
a bra with two cups.And sixty five what
Center do I thank—livingbreasts to fill the cups?
~ Jean Anaporte
& also from Jean:
Keep knocking, and the joy inside
Will eventually open a window
and look out to see who’s there.-Rumi (13th C. Persian Poet)
Flagged as a spammer,
I try again with the first
words that come to mind.~ Dave Bonta
(Who I hope will try yet again.)
Infant skeleton
found in suitcase after
elderly woman dies~ Dave Bonta
(haiku rescued from the spam bin)
home alonethe kitten’s bell
rings in the new year
new year’s morning
the mailbox full
of poems!~ sb
Though this cage of bones
binds me hostage to the years,
hopeful, still I rise.
Winter snow drifts down,
blanketing the new landscape
with pieces of old
A pink smudge
Of dawn signals the new day
The new year.
~ Mary Harwood
Of Gods and Astrology
Janus and Pieces
look both ahead and behind.
The old is made new.~ Pauline
after the downpour
a washed meadow glistening
with shy renewals
snow snow blowers snow
covered cars snow shovel
one body holding it~ tom
An elder weakensnew voices remember wordsspoken winters*A daughter seesessence rising from bodyclouds travel west~ Lisha Adela García
first day of the year
tinsel glitters
in the gutter
I throw out golden corn for good luck and small juncos reply with joy.
~ …deb
Hope in all absence
common sense with doom conspire
nothing but the waiting~ Kenneth Wolman
New year’s day sunshine
brims with anticipation.
Can we hold the joy?~ Karla
All night long the wind
buffets against the house
blowing in the new year.~ Cindy
This chameleon day –
born in the pitch of midnight,
turns yellow at dawn.
On every branch snow
in all particles of breath
no two dreams alike.*
First day of the year.
Wishes ride in on snow flakes
ride out on black slush.
Heavy snow falls
the dog curls in the pillows;
I write my hopes and fears.~ Leslee
smell of green garden
hose water pours my childhood
into winter grass
New Year’s day
snow falling on the mailbox
how quiet the world…~ Joyce Heon
This dance, not unlike May Day spiraling, ties us together in time.
i will learn to carry entire days in seventeen strong syllables.
~ carolee
Creek winds its black way
Through snowy moss and alders
Skunk cabbage come spring~ Erin Hollowell
filling the empty
rocking chair with shadows
New Year’s candle
The song has been sung
The lyrics still in my ear,
End on a high note~ PJ
back to back
split by bright fireworks
…unmarked year
greens and warm chicken
good luck and health for the year
two thousand and eight~ Meridith
new year’s day
sweeping dust bunnies
out the back door~ sb
scraping shovel
against concrete –
alarm clock
As our bonfire burns
the old year into ashes
a new year rises.~ Kimberly
crisp, blue, snowless wind,
empty of obligation,
blows in the first day~ mb
Calendar dreams fade,
dissolving with each season–
like ink in a sunworn diary.~ joanna
like yesterday
the path still thick with ice
warm new year greetings~ E Bodien
Rising
full moon up above
dark train passes thru the night
clouds rolling on in
New morning
unmarked calendar
a new life.~ devorah
Tooth-ache: I recall
my dad-the-dentist’s office,
the books I read there.
New Year beginning,
to share with a genuine
voice of my choosing.*
Who would have guessed that
after all these years I would
come out of hiding?*
A new lease on life
as a writer the freedom
to share and be known.
Renewal
Regeneration
Rebirth….Happy New Year!~ mercy
melting away —
one snowflake on my scarf
another year~ Shelley
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