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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
those are very very yummy ... the overbite of the caterpiller really hits my funny bone just right.
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Day 3 gives me the idea that dreams are being broadcast by the sun to be caught by the inhabitants of earth. Without those warming rays dreams do indeed end. Excellent work!
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thank you for visiting my collection - i hope you'll see me again as things progress
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bones of winter grin from the grass
Very vivid. Also, when they dry in the sun, very brittle. This really is a great image.
The casing of the dreams, not the inner substance. So maddening not to see the butterflies that emerged in the night - just to have impressions of them, but never the whole thing in it's entire beauty. It was all a dream. This poem is excellent.
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Dear one - you have both of those pieces solidly grasped in their meanings and images!
i'm so grateful that you have explained the dreamcatcher piece to perfection - how can i thank you? *warm hug*
i hope you will stay near through the month - i will take comfort in this - as i will watch you with eager anticipation...
what a wonderful month this will be!
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It is going to be a great month! I am learning so much.... I love this stuff.
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3.3.08
Love seeing the words dream catchers and cocoon remnants. Lovely
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i'm so glad you are enjoying my haiku offerings.
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I love the imagery in your work. 
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you're most kind to say - and i hope you'll continue to enjoy the images i weave through the month's spring challenge.
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I will be reading these. They look very in-depth so far, unlike mine. xD
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i sincerely hope you enjoy these - and the others that will come as the month progresses
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Brightness on the imagery 
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Beautiful Jade, I love the way March 2nd pans from the scalloped leaves (as the readers wonder the cause) to the caterpillar (the culprit, and thus the center/revelation) of the piece. Excellent!
I find it interesting that the "bones" in march 1st are grinning from the grass. I need to consider the possibilities of this image even further before returning to comment. I'll be back in a moment.
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i felt strong at the start of the month to put forth something of winter waning, but making a statement as if to say "I won't go quietly" - thus the "grin", or what was a curved spine from an animal that had perished in the bitter cold, to now be reveled as the snow's grip was loosening.
As for the 2nd piece, i've always been amused at the sight of a catepillar tucking into a leaf as if it were an ear of corn, though they display a formidable ability to devour.
i appreciate how you're able to take these images and explain them more technically, thank you!
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excellent Jade, you are growing into quite the skilled haijin!
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March one: can you believe I was also going for a "snow melting" situation? Fortunately I changed my mind before submitting
Lovely
March two: hungry caterpillar makes the appearance
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you're sweet to say - and if you want to use image of snow melting, by all means feel free because i'm not the only one who opened their spring collection with this image - there are so many ways to word it as well. you can even use a 'kigo', a seasonal word or phrase that suggests the image as well. you'll see this practice in my works and others as well.
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i think i've used up my month's allowance of "as well" with this this one comment of mine. i don't usually do that - i was eating dinner while typeing - and lost track.
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now i'm having 'typos' for dessert it looks like.
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You are too funny
Now I understand why you are the Bash Haiku-thon cheerleader. Go Jade!
Snow melting is quite the charming image. I shall see if I can display it my own way
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*shakes her pom-poms*
Go me!... go Team!
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These are cleverly put. I love them both!
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why thank you so much, i hope my humble efforts through this month will continue to inspire.
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I love the powerful imagery in both of your haiku. Keep them coming.
And thanks for all of your kind support with this project.
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Excellent so far, these are so wonderfully concise, you've cut away all the fat and we're left with this strong, raw imagery. Looking forward to more
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beautiful beginnings Jade.
wonderful.
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i'm most grateful - more than you know!
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our pleasure then.
these have real spark.
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March 2
-- scalloped leaves (amazing imagery )
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you're very generous to say, thank you!
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unlike me, you've made a strong start!
Excellent imagery! I love the image of snow looking like bones in the grass!
You're going to have a great month--I can tell!
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why thank you John, i do feel good, and your support carries me along!
i know you will only get better, just warming up, you'll see!
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ahh! this is so.....idk. im just amazed. its spooky yet so.......lol.
(im getting no where with my comment)
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ive just been having this thing with bones. so this is just perfect to me
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you're sweet in your struggle to express - it touches me so, dear little bug, thank you!
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lol. thanks 
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thank you so very much
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