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Jade-Pandora — Spring Haikuthon Mar 1-31 2008
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March 31 - haiku/senryua brief life
serenades from the reeds-
eternal spring
March 30 - haiku/senryu
start stop start stop
two squirrels hide and seek
to the treetop
March 29 - haiku/senryu
spring fever-
I cut my jeans
very short
March 28 - haiku/senryu
I trod barefoot
on the path
to his sandals
March 27 - haiku/senryu
hands trembling
I press his note into
origami folds
March 26 - haiku/senryu
waning moon, low tide
sand shifts from my feet
to my lover's
March 25 - haiku/senryu
the scent of rain
the scent of him-
one and the same
March 24 - senryu/senryu
at the zoo
sneaking a grope
by the python cage
March 23 - haiku/senryu
freshly washed hair
drying in the spring air-
I think of him
March 22 - haiku/haiku
bathroom window
moonlight
voyeur
March 21 - haiku/senryu
before dawn
he wakes me
in prayer
March 20 - haiku/senryu
moonless night
my lover's eyes
the only light
March 19 - haiku/senryu
I anticipate
his breath on my nape-
spring dusk
March 18 - haiku/senryu
cloudburst-
his clothes and mine
drip-dry in the tub
March 17 - haiku/senryu
blood oranges
pried open
bleeding down my chin
March 16 - haiku/haiku
melon flesh yields
green gourds hang-
afternoon banquet
March 15 - haiku/haiku
curbside run-off
graceful silhouette
the flight of a crane
March 14 - haiku/senryu
camp raid-
not a single egg
or raccoon left
March 13 - haiku/senryu
wasp nest
in my mailbox-
unpaid bills
March 12 - haiku/senryu
a tabby preens
on the porch-
ant queue
March 11 - haiku/haiku
daybreak-
empty and unbroken
a lone snail shell
March 10 - haiku/haiku
spring showers
woven boughs
nut hatchlings sleep
March 9 - haiku/senryu
cacophony-
returning geese
catch up on gossip
March 8 - senryu/senryu
sun bonnets in vogue-
a bee attends
high tea
March 7 - haiku/senryu
morning dew-
ladybug
reflections
March 6 - haiku/senryu
swollen stream-
bears' midday forage
the twins wrestle
March 5 - haiku/haiku
death rattle-
gulls loiter inland
from the last storm
March 4 - haiku/senryu
coitus-
two otters
underwater
March 3 - haiku/haiku
dream catchers
at dawn's first light-
cocoon remnants
March 2 - haiku/senryu
scalloped leaves-
a caterpillar's
overbite
March 1 - haiku/haiku
snow melts-
bones of winter
grin from the grass
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Comments: 299
why thank you so much!
i especially hope you will visit my April tanka collection and give me your thoughts on the style i've been representing to give awareness and show the joy of tanka.
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When I get the chance, I'll pop on by.
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Your hard work has produced a wonderful collection of polished haiku. You've portrayed some very beautiful settings - both visual and emotional.
Thanks for continuously encouraging me along the way, as well. 
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Thank you most humbly for thinking highly of anything i've written!
i hope we may continue to see and visit and comment over each other's works -- i'm very glad that dA activities allowed us to meet!
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Congratulations for making it through the month. You've amassed a lovely collection of spring haiku.
There were a few I really enjoyed. I love the attention to detail you gave in day two, the humor of day 13, and layers of meaning in day 28, especially day 28.
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Thank you dear for your kind words and for adding my collection to your favorites!
Oh i'm so glad you appreciate the meanings in #28 - there are many, and a particular favorite of mine in its spirituality, a part of me that is present in quite alot of my work even if some aren't even aware.
As for making it through the month, now here it is April and i'm building another collection, this time of tanka (which doubles for the month also being NaPoWriMo), and then in May for Mike's summer wrimo.
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Good luck with your foray into tanka territory. You have a lot of stamina for those eastern forms. 
I'm participating in the NaPoWriMo as well. As for what I hope to accomplish: some lyrical pieces of freeverse that can stand on their own, or together. This is also my first attempt at maintaining a consistent theme. I hope it turns out well.
All the best.
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i'm sure it will, you're a talented writer indeed!
As for stamina, if you look through my gallery in general you'll find that i've been writing constantly for years - mostly the long stuff - so it's something i'm doing out of the sheer love of it.
And all the very best to you as well.
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That's a sad but moving and appropriate way to end it.
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Thank you so much dear - yet i left it open-ended, for as long as there is a spring that returns...
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Eternal spring of the haiku mind - a box of jade with Pandora's hand poised above.
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31 is just magical...
Congratulations on finishing!
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It was quite a journey - and thank you so much!
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Woot Jade, grats on completion!
Here's some comments :
30th March--love the imagery and movements potrayed in this senryu.
22 March--cheeky moonlight!
20 March--romantic.
My fav of the bunch is 2nd, followed by 11th, followed by 30th.
Love the sonics of 'scalloped' and 'overbite' of 2nd March.
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i'm so glad you've enjoyed these!
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#29:
#30 made me
#31: is very poignant, and a perfect closing piece for the haiku-thon!
You did so wonderfully--I think we can safely say you're a full-fledged haijin!
congratulations, my dear!
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you're so very kind to say, John -
i will always be the wide-eyed novice when it comes to my writing. i'm so glad you've enjoyed my spring collection as the month progressed.
btw, were you able to get your lulu.com order in? i can't wait to hear how you like the book!
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You see yourself as the wide-eyed novice, but what I see is a poetic mind that captures the freshness of the beginner but presents it with the skill of the master! Such an amazing combination! No wonder you're my favorite poet!
I got an e-mail from a friend at the office, and it has arrived. I'm going to meet them for one last lunch on Monday, and he's going to hold on to it for me until then. 
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i'm your favorite poet, really? i didn't know that - thank you!
And the book the book - omg you'll have it in your hands in just a few more days!
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Yes, you are!
and... yes, I will!
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Forever in Pandora's jade box....until she lets it out - being Pandora and all.
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Lovely pieces Jade, each seems to be bursting with Spring, love and life.
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Thank you so very much for your appreciation on my collection
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#30: thank you, dear!
i am posting #31 now - the last of the haikuthong spring collection -
i thank you for your visits, your comments, and for your participation as well!
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Thankyou!! I have enjoyed it. I still have to write the last one.
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correction: "haikuthon"
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my favorite so far.So visually pleasing,textually speaking.Ha
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which one? do you mean - March 29th? if so, really? out of so many haiku in this collection, that's amazing!
and whichever one you mean - thank you!
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march 29th.Yes it is thought arousing,but still so light.Lot to be in so few of words.
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yes, many of my written pieces (no matter what style) has duality, and #28 is no exception, yet "aplenty" sounds a little like something one would see in an advert. care to elaborate what you feel is the duality in this particular haiku? you seem to be pretty sensitive to some of the meanings in others of this spring collection so i entreat you - you're good at picking up on these things.
...and thank you too for this and your other comments - aplenty!
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Wow, you've got stamina!
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ohh thank you for saying so!
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That's tasty...the note made into a paper art. I like that image and all it implies.
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Thanks so much! :hugsherselfemot:
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That sand is saying it all - very effective - the world moves!
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21 and 24....wooow. Blows me away.
(I used to sneak back to the small reptile room where my family never went and kiss my (now ex) boyfriend,..hehe, the iguana was very good at keeping secrets!)
I like the idea of being woke by prayer--prayer of what, I wonder...prayer to wake up and receive you? Prayer of thanks for sleeping by my side? Prayer for the beauty of you and of the nature of you and of God's handiwork?
Brilliant, Jade!
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You're so kind to say, Katie!
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at the zoo
sneaking a grope
by the python cage
Guilty of this lots.... My sweetie and I are always close.
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...and have you caught the double entendre of the piece?
(many things i write, no matter the style, contains at least one of those)
Thank you for visiting me with your wonderful & frequent comments.
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Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure I grasped the meaning.
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