NaHaiWriMo November prompts (abodes)

“Welcome to November NaHaiWriMo! The posts this month will deal with creations, starting with a week of dwellings. Let’s try something different this month. Perhaps write a 3-5-3 haiku, or a monoku (single line), or write a poem that deals with the prompt without using the prompt word. Enjoy exploring the options. Please post your poems inspired by this prompt as comments in response to this posting.”

Visit the website too as I tend to fall off the wagon, and not stay the distance of the month. It could be because writing haiku tends to bore me silly. Maybe I should switch to haibun, to haikai or renga.

The NaHaiWriMo prompt for Nov 1 , 2023: CABIN

AUTUMN ARRIVES LATE

leaves scuttle and dance 
Smoke rises from a cabin in deep woods
woodpecker resumes his carpentry.

11/3/23

I lived in an old cabin

abandoned walnut orchard

slumps back into the mud.

11/3/23

Old walnut orchard

Cabin keeps vigil for signs

Still praying for rain.

11/3/23

DELUGE

Trees thirsting for rain

Cabin keeps an eye on things

Clouds weep in the orchard.

11/3/23

The NaHaiWriMo prompt for Nov 2 , 2023: TEEPEE 

SACRED GEOMETRY

Summer tee-pee packed up

tent poles intersect and rise up

trebuchet to the stars.

11/3/23

The NaHaiWriMo prompt for Nov 3 , 2023: LEAN-TO

UNDER STARS

Lean-to leans into 

the wind, pushes back the night

Meteor showers!

11/5/23

FIRST REAL STORM

Rain pounding the tent

the orchard sheds its last leaves

ablaze with promise.

11/5/23

The NaHaiWriMo prompt for Nov 4 , 2023: COTTAGE

MY GRANDMOTHER’S LAST WISH

Where she wanted to live—

a cottage in a bee-loud glade 

The wind sang in verse.

11/5/23

The NaHaiWriMo prompt for Nov 5 , 2023: HOUSEBOAT

KING TIDE, SAUSALITO MUDFLATS

Outgoing spring tide

houseboat defies gravity

settles by the hearth.

In the mudflats, trails

Starfish constellations lead

to the sea, the sea.

11/5/23

The NaHaiWriMo prompt for Nov 6 , 2023: BROWNSTONE

BICOASTAL DREAMS

Brownstones are as New York 

as Victorians are to SF

with no snow flurries

11;5/23

The NaHaiWriMo prompt for Nov 7 , 2023:  SKYSCRAPER

SKYSCRAPER

Each spire outdoing the other, 

reaching for the clouds, birds nest

in their buttresses.

Lone falcon weaves twigs

on a ledge, hoping to find 

love in the city.

11/5/23

LAST LANDFILL DANCE

Salesforce tower leans 

hard left toward the bus depot

to get out of Dodge.

11/5/23

Actually I have many haiku with varying degrees of success. Click on the word haiku at the bottom of this post. During the pandemic, Chad Sweeney posted many haiku prompts. I often write haiku in linked triads. I also cheat a bit by giving my haiku a title.

June haiku

July haiku