NaHaiWriMo - colours

Orange

darkness falls

jack o’lanterns glow

on orange flowers

Picture by Leonie W.

Red

with a red pen

she marks the paper

mistaken kisses

Black

Hebridean flock

grazing by Rutland Water

black sheep all

nuit noire

lune, Mercure, station spatiale, 

et phares de voiture

darkness

moon, Mercury, space station, 

then headlights

Green

an age-crazed plate

spring greens

he starts to paint

on his palette

a medley

of spring greens

glacé au soleil

verre luisant

diabolo-menthe

One from about 1985

ice cold in the sun

gleaming glass

mint-lemonade

Blue

glimmering lake

through the beech trees

bluebells

White

cloudless sky

the calm lake mirrors

Aoraki's snow

ciel sans nuages

lac calme qui réfléchit

les neiges éternelles

Turquoise

turquoise jewel

refracting light

Lake Tekapo

powdered rock

refracted light

a turquoise lake

Acorn cups

in his pocket

acorn cups and daisies

treasures for a day

NaHaiWriMo

Day 11 - woods

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in the woods
speckled with snow
fallow deer

no deer in sight here 

NaHaiWriMo Day 5

vegetables:

soleil, chaleur

on mange dehors

tomates provençales

freshly picked

young runner beans

give them ten minutes

More NaHaiWriMo

Day 4 spice/ épice

ail et Gauloises

herbes d’Aix en Provence

années soixante

and

scent of cinnamon

calls from the kitchen

coffee and crumb cake

National Haiku Writing Month

NaHaiWriMo in English


NaHaiWriMo en français

Ok - here we go, I decided to try the French as well, since someone on another website is doing this. No promises that I'll manage one a day.

Feb 1 - prompt - pasta:

life-blood of the heart

of England

spaghetti junction

and 1 in French - It refers to the Mauriac novel - le Nœud de Vipères, about a family who fall out about a future will, as far as I remember. This is rather a bitter little haiku:

repas en famille

spaghettis

noeud de vipères

(family meal

spaghetti

knot of vipers)

or vipers' tangle ( The title of one English translation)

Feb 2 - prompt  - eggs:

austerity -

do not kill the goose

that lays the wooden egg

l'austérité -

faut pas tuer la poule
aux œufs de bois

This one feels better in French - more compact?

Feb 3 - prompt - cheese:

vie caillée

transformée par l’art

fromage savoureux

curdled life

transmuted through art

tasty cheese