Blog Update 8/6/2020: “Cantaloupe” #haiku

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As my Sister of the Fey, Debby Gies said to me, “Oy Vey, what a week it’s been! I apologize for all the blog craziness. WordPress is working through the issues and my posts have migrated over from the business plan. I’m still missing my Pages and featured images. Anyway, we’ll muddle through and I’ll keep cleaning up my blog. It was time to update some things, anyway.

In the meantime, here is a haiku for the Poet’s Choice Challenge with a kigo which means “season word” in Japanese. Kigo are used to define the time of the year, and they are valuable in providing economy of expression. Since haiku are mostly nature related, the use of a kigo sets the theme for your poem. 

leaves kissed by the sun
lazy, hazy summertime
sweet melons ripen

©2020 Colleen M. Chesebro

In Phoenix, and my part of the desert in northern Buckeye, we’ve had gruesome heat. For over 32 days in a row we’ve recorded temperatures at 110 degrees F. or higher, breaking most of the old records. My garden has suffered and I’ve lost several plants even though they’re connected to the drip system in my back garden. I’ll wait until this fall to replace them.

On a whim, I threw out some cantaloupe seeds a few months back. Surprise! They sprouted and grew. I hope we get a few nice melons out of the batch.

Enjoy the rest of the rest of your week. The cover reveal for my new book, Word Craft ~ Prose & Poetry: The Art of Crafting Syllabic Poetry is almost ready! Stay tuned.

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55 Comments on “Blog Update 8/6/2020: “Cantaloupe” #haiku”

  5. I hope the blog issues get better soon, Colleen, and the heat gets more bearable (it’s bad here as well and humid), but the melons look lovely.

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    • It was around 76 degrees F. this morning for my early walk (6:45 am). It felt so lovely! We’re not getting the monsoons like normal so our humidity levels are low. Only 106 F. today! Stay cool, Olga. I’m looking forward to trying these melons when they are ripe. ❤

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  6. Those melons look good. The tropical storm brought us some relief from the heat, though it took down both trees and electricity. My outage was brief, thank goodness. (K)

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  8. 110 degrees too hot for me! Your haiku sets the mood for a relaxing summer. Good luck with your blog issues. I feel certain it will all come together.

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    • Thanks, Franci. Slowly but surely it is coming together. I know what you mean about the heat. I’m a northern girl… 110 degrees F. is too hot for me! LOL! ❤

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  16. I love that you threw out the seeds and it grew. That would make me feel like a magician😊. The wonder of it all. Love it.

    Pat

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  17. I love that you threw out the seeds and it grew. That would make me feel like a magician😊. The wonder of it all. Love it.

    Pat

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Colleen M. Chesebro is an American Poet who loves crafting paranormal fantasy and magical realism, cross-genre flash fiction, syllabic poetry, and creative nonfiction. Colleen sponsors a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called Tanka Tuesday, on wordcraftpoetry.com where participants learn how to write traditional and current forms of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, tanka prose, renga, solo-renga, haibun, cinquain, Etheree, nonet, and shadorma poetry. Colleen's syllabic poetry has appeared in the Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal, and in “Hedgerow, a journal of small poems.” She’s won numerous awards from participating in the Carrot Ranch Rodeo, a yearly flash fiction contest sponsored by carrotranch.com. In 2020, she won first place in the Carrot Ranch Folk Tale or Fable category, with her story called “Why Wolf Howls at the Moon.” Colleen is a Sister of the Fey, where she pursues a pagan path through her writing. When she is not writing, she is reading. She also loves gardening and crocheting old-fashioned doilies into works of art.

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