February 1, 2024

Moon full with promise
The clattering world silenced
The woods beckon me

I slipped my confines
and bathed in moon shine I lay
The fox awakened

Vulpine majesty
She settled alongside me
The earth sang to us

February 2, 2024

Closeted longing
My tender heart, left for him
Anonymously

February 3, 2024

The auroral dance
‘neath a symphony of stars
I am infinite

February 4, 2024

His face angelic —
biblically accurate
Eyes, so many eyes!!!

February 5, 2024

My patience tonight
Spiraled right down the ol' drain
Caretaking struggles

February 6, 2024

Thinking in haiku!
Barista isn't impressed
with my hai-korder

February 7, 2024

Mom and I, a pair
Both of us so hardheaded
I just have to laugh

February 8, 2024

Plotting my kiss off
A fleeting bitter delight
Worth it no, but still

February 9, 2024

Plain Jane is a bitch
Cute boy but bitch of a queen
All tea all shade girl

February 10, 2024*

Lonely Parisian
A mischievous do-gooder
Quirky love story

*Today’s challenge was to write a haiku about a favorite movie or book.
Click here for this movie

A hard read. Four friends
One's devastating traumas
The limits of love

Click here for this book

February 11, 2024

Our tongue, our humor
Spoken to us and for us
We are family

February 12, 2024

P-town vacation
booked -- week of Jockstrap Bike Ride
Spectating only!

February 13, 2024*

A monthly band name
Three part folk tale — love, greed, loss
It rakes at my heart

*The challenge was to write a haiku about a favorite song.
Click for this 2000s song — parts 1 & 2, part 3.

February 14, 2024*

This boy's first diva
Orange haired androgyny
She was made of this

*The challenge was to write a haiku about a favorite song.
Click here for this 1980s song

February 15, 2024*

Cup of hot cocoa
About what you could've been
Is it slut shaming?

*The challenge was to write a haiku about a favorite song.
Click here for this 1970s song

February 16, 2024

I did it today!
Mum's the word for the moment
Revelation soon

February 17, 2024

Taut, dormant and caught
Too much became afterthought
Oh Spring is coming

February 18, 2024

Unraveled loafing
Bundled afternoon dozing
Nestling cold nosed pup

February 19, 2024

What if I can’t help?
Can’t do anything to help?
What if nothing helps?

February 20, 2024*

An amethyst heart
Bruised purple and hardened, still
Beneath the skin beats

*Today’s challenge was to use a single color as the focus of your haiku

February 21, 2024

Concert on work night?
Starts at 9 down in DC?
I’m too old for this!

February 22, 2024

I got congrats when
I expected criticism
Christ what's wrong with me?!

February 23, 2024

If you're sarcastic
Come sit right here next to me
It's my native tongue

Sarcasm -- hearing it
Some folks think you're an asshole
Could be. Not really

February 24, 2024

Into the gloaming
Dancing fireflies carry me
Each a memory

February 25, 2024

Lunar New Year bash
Social battery exhausted
Quiet time needed

Lunar New Year bash
White elephant gift exchange
I got a sarong

February 26, 2024

Coming to an end
A thirty two year journey
I am retiring!

February 27, 2024

Sadness in leaving
The team, for the company
No fucks left to give

February 28, 2024*

Interesting names
I notice and enjoy them
Garbuny is one

*Today’s challenge was to make the subject of your haiku someone else in our haiku group

February 29, 2024

Each a grain of sand
Shai-Hulud the immortal
We give our water