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Daily Haiku

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ChocolateButtonsOfShame · 29/01/2022 11:10

Hello!

Anyone else fancy a thread where we write and share a haiku daily?

I used to write a lot of haikus. I find they're a good mindfulness exercise 🙂

I've just started writing them again about my baby son but will try to branch out into other topics.

Here is one from last night. Distracting the boy with a toy boat while putting him in pajamas (he's a wriggler). Title in bold.

Tug Boat
A toy boat sailing
The blue ocean of your sheets
Night night tiny boy

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mbosco · 04/02/2022 12:49

This thread is bringing me so much joy! Thank you for starting it, @ChocolateButtonsOfShame.

Maple butter in
The French toast mixture today
Decadent breakfast.

iklboo · 04/02/2022 14:27

Get my coat on now
@mbosco breakfast sounds yum
Save some for me please

MrsWooster · 04/02/2022 16:46

I went out today.
A few yards leant on his arm feels
Like winning a race.

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ChocolateButtonsOfShame · 04/02/2022 17:04

@MrsWooster hey that's great! Hope it will get easier?

@mbosco maple butter? Yes please!

Love how some of these are like mini diary entries.

Here's mine -

Snow blown from the sea
The corner of my lips taste
Saltily of blood

(I always get stupid cracked lips in winter).

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Dillidalli · 04/02/2022 17:50

In the hairdresser
Stranger stares from the mirror
Who is that woman

JamieFraserskneewarmer · 04/02/2022 18:16

Dark and cold outside
But Saturday beckons bright
I love the weekend!

2018SoFarSoGreat · 04/02/2022 18:26

Winter sun so bright
you'd pull your curtains open
TARA. What a day!

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ChocolateButtonsOfShame · 05/02/2022 10:51

@Dillidalli this is a familiar experience. I always end up thinking jeez how did I get so old? And I'm not even that old... It must be the lighting. At least that's what I tell myself.

Hope you're having a lovely Saturday @JamieFraserskneewarmer ours started rather early... now we have a grumpy nap-refusing baby. It's tipping down too so can't take him for a walk in the sling which is the usual remedy. Grumble.

Today's example haiku:

the disk moon
the disk frozen lake
reflecting each other

Hashimoto Takako, 19th C

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iklboo · 05/02/2022 10:56

Iceland shop coming
Where will I put all the food?
Damn special offers!

Son still in his bed
Oh to be sixteen again
When will he get up?

sleepymum50 · 05/02/2022 11:07

Keys college has said
We are flying our own flag
Get over yourself

Honourofgrayskull · 05/02/2022 14:37

Today is boring
So I'm watching crap TV
Unmotivated

NotInMyFrontGardenYouDont · 05/02/2022 16:36

Lost in the darkness.
Voices, scrabbling hands,
We are coming little one.

NotInMyFrontGardenYouDont · 05/02/2022 16:39

Oh no I reversed the lines there! Feeling a little worried about him...

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ChocolateButtonsOfShame · 05/02/2022 16:39

In the grocery
Lad watches beautiful girl
Drops a tomato

Perhaps not my best but it really is dreary here today...

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ChocolateButtonsOfShame · 05/02/2022 16:40

@NotInMyFrontGardenYouDont who is it about? 🙂

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Devilmakes3 · 05/02/2022 16:45

Today has been still
As a calm sea
But with oceanic depth

2018SoFarSoGreat · 05/02/2022 16:57

Ryan in the well
Waiting is unbearable
For us. Please God, Out.

ToffeeCentre · 05/02/2022 17:11

Enjoy the challenge
A chance to capture essence
But my stomach churns

Devo1818 · 05/02/2022 17:21

Sunshine burns the ice
Flaming blue skies glare down on us
Winter's last battle

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ChocolateButtonsOfShame · 05/02/2022 17:40

@NotInMyFrontGardenYouDont oh. Sorry that was thick of me haha

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HunkyPunk · 05/02/2022 18:10

Narcissi alone,
Remain untouched by the deer
Roaming among graves.

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ChocolateButtonsOfShame · 05/02/2022 19:07

Hello to the new posters 🙂

@HunkyPunk this is beautiful! Love it.

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MsNorth · 05/02/2022 20:34

Three daily wordles
already- and now nerdle
-how to fit it in?

HunkyPunk · 05/02/2022 22:30

@MsNorth

Three daily Wordles??
Do you have to pay for more
Than the one a day?

duchessofmuchos · 06/02/2022 00:03

Snoring next to me
Twitching in deep doggy dreams
Adored companion