National Haiku Writing Month

It’s here! It’s here! The month that sparked a full year now of creativity, poetry, and healing. I’ve been writing consistently now for a year and I’ve gotta say — Writing Haiku is soooo hard for me, still. Although I do enjoy the challenge. This site https://www.nahaiwrimo.com/national-haiku-writing-month has great info on how which I will study more but why is this so difficult for me? I think I need to think more like Spock when writing haiku – I bet he was really good at it. I won’t judge myself so harshly and I will give myself credit for just writing and sticking with it. Most of my haiku do not fit the traditional way which I will work towards but for now, I guess it’s kinda like micropoetry. I will strive! It really is a fun challenge to think differently when it comes to expressing myself with poetry – I love surrealism, metaphor, simile, I’m dreamy and romantic, I love to see where the imagination takes me. Maybe I’ll improve this month with writing haiku, maybe not, but it’s about the journey, right? Progress, not perfection. Good luck and good wishes to all the writers out there. Talk soon. xoxo

These prompts are from the NaHaiWriMo’s facebook page by the way. Enjoy!

February 1 – Prompt: BLOSSOM

soft erotic touch
the bloom of my lips on yours
honey drips between us

February 2 – Prompt: EVERGREEN

shadows are melting
sunlight drips from soft needles
loosens winter’s grasp

February 3 – Prompt: WILLOW

branches sway and dance
this is a joyful willow
no weeping today

February 4 – Prompt: PETAL

soft and delicate
he loves me, he loves me not
clairvoyant flower

February 5 – Prompt: ROOT

anci-ent’s root
exposed and pulsing
an earthy vein

February 6 – Prompt: THORN

collector of
water and blood
a thorn

February 7 – Prompt: SAPLING

a careful hand
snaps
tender bark

February 8 – Prompt: ZEPHYR

a zephyr carries
blown kisses
across the room

February 9 – Prompt: LAVA

magma
frozen into silence
obsidian

February 10 – Prompt: FOG

thickened fog
forces morning into
a scary movie

February 11 – Prompt: LIGHTNING

lightning shared
behind our eyes
lovers’ first kiss

February 12 – Prompt: ICICLE

tapered candle
melts upside down–
an icicle

February 13 – Prompt: EMBERS

embers rise
passion uncontained

February 14 – Prompt: DRIZZLE

sky blessings
cool drizzles
misty rainbows

February 15 – Prompt: ABYSS

missing you
my beloved
heart’s abyss

February 16 – Prompt: CANYON

celestial rhythms
warm canyon walls
dance of the melting sun

February 17 – Prompt: CRATER

shifting light
lunar craters
shadow dancing

February 18, 2026 – Prompt: FJORD

ancient horns
power and stillness
echoes of the fjord

February 19, 2026 – Prompt: DUNE

waves of sand
crests and peaks
melt into the horizon

February 20, 2026 – Prompt: BASALT

my feet
are touching
50 million years

February 21, 2026 – Prompt: MARSH

warm wind
reeds lean in
grass quartet

February 22, 2026 – Prompt: SOLSTICE

she is her own sun
stepping into
the solstice

February 23, 2026 – Prompt: NEBULA

eye of god
or is it
our reflection

February 24, 2026 – Prompt: ECLIPSE

two bodies
merge into one
coronal headdress