Welcome to 2018!
A shout-out all of you that participated in last week’s challenge:
Haikai Challenge Participants
| 1. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 2. Zander 3. Jane Dougherty |
4. Xenia Tran 5. Janice (Ontheland) 6. Jules |
7. Alice |
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And now, for the first Haikai challenge of the year:
This week, the east coast of the United States endured Winter Storm Grayson. Iguanas dropped from their perches in Florida. Long Island, NY, recorded over 12 inches of snow. New York City Schools closed (wo-hoo!). And New England may still be experiencing an Ice Age!
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A woman photographs her English Bull Dog on a jetty next to an ice covered Cape Cod Bay near Rock Harbor on January 3, 2018 in Orleans, Massachusetts. Courtesy of Info New for you.)
No sooner had Grayson cleared out then a blast of artic cold settled into the New York Metropolitan area!
Winter has thrown down the gauntlet. So this week, your choice of unconventional kigo includes either Winter Storm or Artic Cold. Any haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, renga, haiga or haikai poem of your choice is fair game!
As always:
Here’s how the challenge works:
1. write the haikai poem of your choice.
2. post the link of your post to Mister Linky.
3. pingback by posting the link to the challenge on your site.
4. read and comment on other contributors’ posts.
Stay warm, haijin!
Share the love. Spread the haikai:
Categories: haikai, haiku community
Frank J. Tassone 
I live on the southern tip of Africa. Such weather as you and Jules describe is beyond my ken. Not sure I’m up to this one! Keep warm!
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Do you experience any kind of storm during winter? A rain storm, say? Then this challenge is for you! 😉
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I’ll jog my memory. There must be something.
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And yet, this is nothing new. Well, except for naming the winter storms like hurricanes. It makes for better press. A few decades ago, when Janesville, Wisconsin recorded a record -64, the general consensus across the nation was, “Boy! I’m sure glad I don’t live in Wisconsin!”
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Indeed! 😆
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Stay warm Frank! We are expecting -19C here and are layering the thermals! 😉❄
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grrr! you stay warm, too, Xenia!
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Thank you Frank! 😉
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White out
https://rivrvlogr.wordpress.com/2018/01/06/joining-family/
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Love it! You’re the first to take up this week’s challenge! 🙂
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🙂 Thanks!
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My pleasure! 🙂
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I know I’ve had my share of whiteouts.
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So say we all–at least those of us living in the snow latitudes! LOL!
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There is always that Disney vacation you keep promising yourselves…
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🙂 Been there, done that, Jilly. In August! LOL!
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August?! That will kill a body!
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Yup! 😆
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I already did my daily – which fits with ‘winter’ and ‘cold’.
For the first time in a few decades our creek has completely frozen over.
Our temp this morning was ‘darned cold’ 🙂
northern exposure
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So say we all! 🙂
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I’m not sure I’m up to this one either, Frank. Just thinking about ‘cold’ makes me feel as though I’m already dead.
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LOL! Stay warm, Jane!
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It sounds pathetic when our temperatures are around 60°F to be complaining, but it feels cold!
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😆 When we went to Alaska two summers ago, we bundled in layers in the 50s. The anchorage natives walked around in T-shirts and shorts! 😆 The feeling of cold is subjective, no?
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True. But my fingers and toes are still saying it’s cold 🙂
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We’re huddled inside. I’m not breaching my front door in this weather! 😆
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I don’t blame you at all! I wonder how anything survives in it.
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I’m ready to start writing about spring. It’s not usually this cold in NJ either.
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After all the warnings and forecasts we had an icy wind with snow on the hills, thankfully only -6C in the windchill! I hope you all kept warm :o)
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Hi Frank- Checking to ensure the pingback worked. I have had some issues recently. Sorry I missed last week, I have a hard time finding your challenge sometimes! And I have your page bookmarked too. 🙂
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The haibun, right? Yes, the pingback worked! 😀
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No, a Haiku. Storm Hunter for the arctic cold/ winter storm prompt. 😊
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I did say Haibun, didn’t I? 🤦♂️ 😆 I meant haiku. Yes, I received the pingback. 😀
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Lol!😂
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Hello Frank! The winter storm came in cold and furious! -1F often times at night. Not bad for the old South! Hope you are staying warm. 🙂
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Hi Toni! We stayed in all day Saturday, when temperatures dropped below zero. Thankfully, the heat held! Hope you’re staying warm, too!
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Hi Frank! Yes, we are staying warm although my pipes froze – twice in the same week!!!! The plumbers found out the problem and fixed it. Whew!
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I am staying warm! The furnace is cranked!
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Nice!
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