late realisation!
random acts of kindness should
include some to self

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: random

#RandomNotRandom #RandomActsOfKindness
#HappyWednesday! #BloomScrolling
#Snowdrops #Schneeglöckchen

site of age-old scars:
site of transfiguration
in a sought season

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: site

Last day tomorrow!
More here https://clarebryden.co.uk/a-haiku-a-day-in-january/

greet each budding tree
with an attitude of awe –
it will save your life

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: attitude

and two more on sustainability...

how good is your fish?
catching skate is illegal
says the MCS

earth’s ecosystems
skate on ever thinner ice;
future dreams are melt . . .

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: skate

https://www.mcsuk.org/goodfishguide/seafood-checker/

summer pond skaters
skate four-leggèd on water;
winter, two on ice

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: skate

Two again today...

though they’re free to feed
sparrows still like to quarrel
for the sake of it

I have no quarrel
with those who agree with me
only with myself

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: quarrel

be conservative:
conserve beauty, trust and hope
conserve the future

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: conservative 😜

I want a big sign:
DANGER OF MATURE WOMAN!!
SCORN AT YOUR PERIL!!

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: mature

#Warning! #Defcon1!
#Klaxon! #Alert! #ExtremeRisk!
#Hazard! #Approaching!

going up and down –
spring summer autumn winter –
light gives me a lift

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: lift

The whole series and some alternatives: https://clarebryden.co.uk/a-haiku-a-day-in-january/

what good does it do
to measure against others?
live your own best life

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: measure

Talking to myself again 🙃

tired of ‘merchant’ speak –
let us find ourselves chanting
language that dances

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: merchant

I have had to work with a LOT of ‘random’ words like salesperson, money, negotiation, committee, merchant

Two to choose from today...

to live a good life
pay no regard to surface:
seek the hidden depths

Dear Mr Squirrel,
I am writing with regard
to bird seed: Hands Off!

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: regard

sunlight through windows -
my prediction for today
is more daffodils

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: prediction

Thought of another one for #FensterFreitag !

a prediction of
infinite growth is absurd –
live in the present

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: prediction

#FinitePlanet #SanityCheck #Economics #Environment #DoughnutEconomics
#YesPresentHasTwoMeanings

exploring in dreams:
attic, cellar, corridors,
undiscovered rooms

#Haiku #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: cellar

#TheUnconscious

The whole series and some alternatives: https://clarebryden.co.uk/a-haiku-a-day-in-january/

many air masses
are in negotiation
over my weather

#Haiku #Poetry #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: negotiation

#Literally #Figuratively #ClimateEmergency

the love of money
is a root of much evil –
take care with your roots

#Haiku #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: money

the whole series and some alternatives: https://clarebryden.co.uk/a-haiku-a-day-in-january/

cast off apathy!
raise an outcry! take a stand!
the future needs us!

#Haiku #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: apathy

if you find your life
bumping up against a bar
did you put it there?

#Haiku #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: bar

bitter winter days –
vision of bees attending
cream honeysuckle

#Haiku #HaikuADay #January
#RandomWord prompt: vision

#Bees #WinterHoneysuckle
#Bienen #Wintergeißblatt