a pair boxing
the hares, they thump
run and repeat

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#DailyHaikuPrompt - hare

nimbus
harbinger
of rain

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#DailyHaikuPrompt - dark cloud

clumping snowflakes
crushed into a ball
sent spinning splat

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#DailyHaikuPrompt - snowflake

You are a star
And you only happen once
so affirms Sylvester

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#DailyHaikuPrompt - star

mile after mile of camellia bushes
like well-curated topiary
plantation of tea

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#DailyHaikuPrompt - camellia

struggling
short huffs
runner's breath

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#DailyHaikuPrompt - breath

Robert Fitzgerald said that when phrases are repeated in Homer [...] it enriches, it reinforces, it insists, and it grows in strength and power. I feel like one of my key concerns is the relationship between the part and the whole.

David Naimon interviewing Arthur Sze
https://tinhouse.com/transcript/between-the-covers-arthur-sze-interview/

north by northwest wind
stirring the seed pods on the redbud
a chorus catching background light

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#DailyHaikuPrompt - north

cratered by blasts
the broken plain
bare in all its desolation

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#DailyHaikuPrompt - desolation

December
extravaganza
on a budget

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - December

flash of red
straight flight path
from tree to tree

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#DailyHaikuPrompt - cardinal

gone are the junco
north
to their breeding grounds

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - juncos

Bachelard from The Poetics of Space:

How many dreams told objectively, have become nothing but oneirism reduced to dust! In the presence of an image that dreams, it must be taken as an invitation to continue the daydream that created it.

moonlight
crackles
over jagged ice floes

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#DailyHaikuPrompt - moon

Gillian Sze:

Sometimes I search for the end of the line. Sometimes I search by way of sentences. Always I search by way of breath.

https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2023/08/gillian-sze-further-short-takes-on.html

duvet time
snug and warm
on a cold night

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#DailyHaikuPrompt - cold night

lapsang souchong
relishng
its smoky flavour

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#DailyHaikuPrompt - tea

scarf tucked
buttoned
collar up

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - winter coat

dry rustle
of withered reeds
geese waddle here

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - withered reeds

turnip off the truck rube

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - turnip