Prompt 40: Welcoming

Thanks to Nancy Bea Miller of Genre Cookshop for this week's prompt of "welcoming":

don't worry spiders
I keep house
casually
~Kobayashi Issa (1763 -1827)

In Issa's haiku, "don't worry spiders...," unadorned language—without simile, metaphor, allusion, or other figurative elements—provides an amusing snapshot of some spiders and the human they live with. As in most haiku, conjunctions and connectors, such as "because," are left out and the logic is left for readers to infer. Often, two or more meanings are possible: here, for example, "keep house" can imply keeping one's house tidy, or "keeping a house" that is welcoming for all who live there, even the spiders.(from an essay by Robert Hass, U.S. poet laureate)

Also, thanks for the photo, Nancy!

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Prompt 39: Childhood Memories

Geraldine of My Poetic Path brings us this week's prompt of childhood memories. Here is her beautiful poem on this subject:

The

first of

December

Thoughts of

Christmas.

Soon to arrive.

Expectations ran high.

Snow days and blizzards.

Making a list, checking it twice.

Then Santa's letter printed and ready to mail.

Christmas baking; heady, wonderful aromas.

Pageants at school, with costumes of many colors.

The tall lush evergreen, centerpiece of the season.

We decorated so carefully; each bough lovingly adorned.

With some old, some new, every one used and none forgotten.

The long days of dark December. Homework complete.

Sitting in the darkened living room; time alone to drift away.

Marvelling at the masterpiece of lights and shining ornaments.

Gazing far beyond to the magic to follow. Hurry, hurry, hurry!

Christmas eve: midnight mass and carolling.Treats aplenty!

Then the long awaited treasures afterwards.

The secrets of shining boxes and ribbons.

Finally revealed and always worth the wait.

Then off to sleep to dream of a perfect Christmas Day.

Happy and content, still to remember these childhood memories.

On

this

winter day.

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Prompt 38: Courage

Courage is this week's prompt, thanks to Barb's Haiku. Thanks to her, too, for the photo and for these:

boldness without bounds
courage of her convictions
-children's advocate

normally reserved
and non-confrontational
-tigress for her kids

great tenacity
have mothers of special needs
-unbroken spirits

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Prompt 37: Paradox

This week's prompt is paradox, thanks to Edward Gault of Forest River Journal. Thanks for these, Edward:

I wrote half tanka
Then wrote one half the next part
Followed by next half
And continued in this way
Until I got to the en

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Her smile was friendly,
She looked directly through me
-speaking policy.

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"I am always doing that which I cannot do,
in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso

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Prompt 36: Disguise

This week's prompt is disguise.
My apologies for having Mr. Linky up late!

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