Wishing all a merry and bright Solstice! Our family's 12 Nights of Yuletide begins this evening with a special meal and a candle-lighting ceremony (see Dec. 20 below), so all I have time for in between cooking and tablesetting is to recap my #haikuforhope this week. Thanks again to Catherine Flynn and Mary Lee Hahn who ignited this little practice for me again this year.
Dec. 15
holiday party
I can’t enjoy the spiced punch
emptied water jugs
Dec. 16pins and needlesweary foot won't take the weightlimbs stage a slowdown
Dec. 17
butter flour fruit spice
rows and columns of goodness
edible calendar
Dec. 18blur of class play gradesparties actual meetings:
Dec. 19
weeks of drought
dry arroyo of bedroom
a flood of daughterDec. 20tradition, you bullymeet me at the corner ofmust and love
Dec. 21
dark clock ticks
repeatedly remind myself
tomorrow is longer
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Three and half more hours of school...I look forward to a full tour of blogposts this weekend, rounded up for us by Buffy at her blog. Joy to you all!
Oh wow. I though 19 was my favourite - but then there was 20 and 21. Can't choose. (Am sure your busy days are so much better for these haiku moments.)
ReplyDeletethe haiku on the 15th....you just cannot top that one. It stops me in my tracks. Well done, this week. I've enjoyed playing haiku on twitter with you.
ReplyDeleteOH, I love the flood of daughter! Mine is on her way!
ReplyDeleteAlthough I don't have my children in college anymore, I still love most your 'flood of daughter' though now for me it's 'flood of son', he and his family arriving tonight. Enjoy your solstice beginning your vacation, Heidi.
ReplyDeleteSo much to love in these, Heidi! the blur, the flood of daughter, meeting the bully of tradition! Enjoy your yuletide.
ReplyDeleteI could read a year of your haiku, Heidi! Maybe you'll keep going?
ReplyDeleteI not only have a flood of daughter, but they come with their significant others and dogs! Love playing #haikuforhope this month. I'll be sad to see it end.
ReplyDeleteI too remind myself that each day is going to be a bit brighter than the last, it certainly helps me work my way through the months of grey.
ReplyDeleteI like your "edible calendar" haiku, and your "must and love" sounds intriguing… Enjoy your break and Happy Holidays to you and your family!
ReplyDeleteDecember 20. So hard to hold fast to the traditions WE make when commercialism tries to sell us the traditions THEY want us to adopt.
ReplyDeleteHonestly that one was more about the traditions I made when I was younger and more energetic which now feel like a lot of work!
DeleteHaiku for hope! How wonderful--I love haiku and, well, hope--who couldn't use some of that!
ReplyDeleteI especially like "a flood of daughter," and "must and love" and Dec 21--really they're all fabulous!
Thanks for sharing them.
Somehow I missed your post last week, and though I've been following on Twitter, I missed a few of your haiku there as well. Like so many others, I do love that "flood of daughter" and I can so relate to the tyranny of traditions that we ourselves began in earlier "more energetic" days. What a lovely group of haiku you've created! Thanks for sharing them all in one place.
ReplyDeleteYour December 18 haiku made me smile. The holidays can be a lot and I like this speaker's sassy voice in the last line. Thanks for sharing these snippets of your holidays, Heidi.
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