Enjoy your moon-gazing, haijin? Many of you did! Congratulations to last week’s contributors!
Haikai Challenge Participants| 1. Kerfe Roig 2. joem18b 3. Li/Lisa 4. Jules 5. Janice | 6. Jane Dougherty 7. Revived Writer 8. Dave Madden 9. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr 10. Eugenia | 11. Pat R 12. Christine Bolton 13. Tessa Dean 14. Xenia Tran 15. s.s. |
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The forecast in New York’s Backyard picks up this week. Mid-80s F appears to be the average. It’s the type of heat that stirs tensions. Grotesque humidity, the kind that makes you think you’re living in a fish bowl, often accompanies these temperatures. Real scorchers, these, and they are not even the dog days!
It’s getting hot, alright. And, as July is the last month of summer by traditional reckoning, it’s fitting to use the summer kigo smoldering [hot] (moyuru).
This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to smoldering [hot] (moyuru).
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 as cool as you can, haijin!
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Categories: haikai, haiku community
Frank J. Tassone 
Sometimes anger and frustration can get us a tad hot under the color too.
Since I mashed up some prompts this is what I offer: https://julesinflashyfiction.wordpress.com/2020/07/12/nd-7-12-angry-frustrated-sizzle-spam-hot-4p/
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I made four haiku / senryu about each of the Four Elements that used to be known as the basic elements of Creation. The one about Fire seems suitable for this challenge. Check out my entry at https://peterbouchier.wordpress.com/english-essays-and-poems-2/four-elements/
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https://poetryforhealing.com/2020/07/17/extinguished-a-tanka/
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