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New Year Haiku 2011 – Come Play!

 

snowy gate with wreath

 

It's time for the Watermark New Year Haiku Collaborative Poem Dance! I try to do this every year, but don't always make it. This year I've been reminded by many folks getting here via New Year Haiku searches, and by the first contribution.

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.

I'll leave this post at the top into the New Year; I don't have my haiku yet, but here is our first offer for 02011:

snowflake

My plan for a new year

Tis that time to look
Inside, and stretch up and out
Imagine, and do

~ Howard Dubowitz

snowflake

 

sweeping the threshold | a new broom 

~ sb

snowflake

 

"Next year will be different"–
watching others party
on TV

~ Dave

snowflake

 

New Year's Eve–
so pleased my balled-up tissue
makes the waste basket

~ Dave

snowflake

 

Ah, the new year –

Is it, blessed or cursed?
Unknown until, the restless days
are spent –

like a night of love.

~ Cathy

 

snowflake

 

At midnight fireworks explode
dogs bark then settle
geese pass honking overhead.

~ Kate Fern

snowflake

 

new year's morning
a hawk takes a sparrow
from the feeder

~ sb

 

snowflake

 

one one and one one
seem to say 'new beginning'
at least i hope so

jenett

   

snowflake

 

He comes back
from a season's fishing
sleek as a seal.

~ Cindy

snowflake

 

However it ends,
it begins with a kiss and
a wish for the best.

~ Jennifer Simon

snowflake

 

winter morning, new year
black dog shakes snow from her back
the snow keeps falling

~ Susan Butler

snowflake

 

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13 responses to “New Year Haiku 2011 – Come Play!”

  1. Dave Avatar

    “Next year will be different”–
    watching others party
    on TV

  2. Dave Avatar

    New Year’s Eve–
    so pleased my balled-up tissue
    makes the waste basket

  3. Sherry Chandler Avatar

    Sixty degrees and thunder
    begins this New Year’s day. A CSX
    freight blows for the crossing.

  4. Sherry Chandler Avatar

    010111
    Binary New Year’s Day
    Must mean something

  5. Cathy Avatar

    Ok it’s not a haiku,it demanded more lines but its good enough 😉

    Ah, the new year –
    Is it, blessed or cursed?
    Unknown until, the restless days
    are spent –
    like a night of love.

    Not sure if I have the question mark in the right spot? You can corrected it, along any grammar goofs.

  6. Kate Fern Avatar

    At midnight fireworks explode
    dogs bark then settle
    geese pass honking overhead.

  7. jenett Avatar

    one one and one one
    seem to say ‘new beginning’
    at least i hope so

  8. Cindy Avatar
    Cindy

    He comes back
    from a season’s fishing
    sleek as a seal.

  9. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    However it ends,
    it begins with a kiss and
    a wish for the best.
    — Jennifer Simon

  10. Susan Butler Avatar

    winter morning, new year
    black dog shakes snow from her back
    the snow keeps falling

  11. sbpoet Avatar

    Thank you, all, for your contributions!

  12. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    Thank you for collecting them — this is delightful!

  13. Rode Avatar

    The early sunrise,
    how it turns the hillside pink.
    Does it shame the snow?

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