December 11, 2014
solitude-winter-tree
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Solitude … my response
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comfort of silence
. doe with fawn out back
. revelations dawn
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I was unable to post yesterday
due to putting my laptop in the shop
I had written for the prompt
Carpe Diem #621, first light
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dawn’s first rays
mountain top coast of Maine
smoke from wood stoves
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From the prompt Solitude:
“….the prompt for today, solitude, another wonderful modern kigo extracted from Jane Reichhold’s “A Dictionary of Haiku”. Solitude …. loneliness, emptiness, isolation or silence, all synonyms for solitude. I (Chèvrefeuille) think I can write a nice haiku with this prompt, but let me first look at the examples of Jane Reichhold.
the shape of wind
writing in dunes
loneliness
alone in the house
writing in dunes
loneliness
alone in the house
the flavor of peppermint
cold on the tongue
a journey begins
cold on the tongue
a journey begins
the way familiar
to the door
to the door
frozen to his feet
the length of a shadow
wanting to sleep
the length of a shadow
wanting to sleep
© Jane Reichhold
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Kristjaan Panneman our host writes:
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the vastness of the heath
just the sound of fresh fallen snow
a cold moonlit night
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© Chèvrefeuille
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That wasn’t easy. As I started to ‘connect’ with solitude the first thing I felt was the loneliness of a field of heath in the middle of winter. Wandering in the moonlit night …. the freezing cold, the soft cracking of snow. I just had to catch that feeling in a haiku …
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Here is another version:
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a cold moonlit night
just the sound of fresh fallen snow –
wandering over the moors
© Chèvrefeuille
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