May 2013 NaHaiWriMo Writing Prompts
Selected by Alan Summers, Bradford-on-Avon, England
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Asperity.
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Blue.
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Curve(s).
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Den.
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Echo. From reflection of sound to Greek legend.
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Found things. Found things can be everything you find in your daily
routine, or outside your daily routine, from concrete visual things, to
sounds, smells, anything you discover anew.
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Green; gold; gone (select just one option for a challenge). Green
from nature to naïve. Gold—all that glitters is gold or is it? Gone, but not
forgotten, memories of past times that still linger.
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Home.
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Ignore: Things overlooked first time around.
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Jacket.
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Kindnesses
(open or concealed). Alternate prompt:
Kinetheodolite. A note about
Kinetheodolite: A type of device containing a movie camera instead of a
telescope and giving continuous film of a moving target. Humans are a bit
like that; we both consciously track and observe life in movement, and
subconsciously we record everything that we don’t notice consciously. Haiku
writers perhaps fall in between this, where we notice more of the small
details of daily life, the small things on the periphery of life, the
periphery of our visual senses, our eyesight.
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Lost.
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Mannerisms.
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Necessities.
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Odour(s) and ornaments. One topic or the other, or combine if you’d
like. I look forward to this very much.
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Pet (verb or noun).
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Quandary or quietude. Quandary: A state of
uncertainty or indecision as to what to do in a particular situation. Quietude: The state of being quiet, peaceful, or tranquil (literary).
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Romance or risk.
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Spice(s) or stars.
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Tales or (remarkable) trees.
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Uniform.
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Velocity or velour.
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Weight or waiting.
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Xeno or x-factor. Xeno: A prefix for anything foreign, strange,
different. Please let your imagination and invention find full flight.
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Yellow.
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Zeroes, zeniths, or zoos. Zero was invented by the Arabs. In the
Arabic notation for numbers, zero stands for the absence of quantity, and so
much more, for good or bad.
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If your name
was a haiku what would it be?
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One-line haiku (use any previous prompts for subject/topic).
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Your
favorite or fantasy sandwich filler or you can simply “sandwich” two amazing images together for a unique
haiku experience.
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Art or artifacts.
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Flipside/reverse a memory (so it becomes the opposite of a childhood
memory or holiday experience (adult or child).
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