BP: Haiku Dialogue (Ad Astra) Impermanence

This week’s prompt at the Haiku Foundation’s weekly column, Haiku Dialogue, was impermanence. Guest editor Alex Fyffe indicated that in 100,000 years what would be remembered of our lives here and now (if anything) (I am paraphrasing here, but I digress), and to write a haiku showing that.

Haiku poets from around the globe found various ways to express the feeling of impermanence. Some were about the universe; some were more personal; some were thoughtful, and some were humorous, but all had merit.

This pedometer geek writer was excited to have had one haiku chosen by Alex for inclusion in the column. It is as follows:

red giant

all become

stardust

~Nancy Brady, 2021

Thanks Alex for choosing to include one of my haiku. To read all the haiku from this week’s column, check out http://www.thehaikufoundation.org and look under the Haiku Dialogue picture.

Next week’s prompt is also there, and one or two haiku can be submitted by midnight (CST) January 1, 2022 on the subject of space, the final frontier, and what it might look like.

A reminder to self: starting composing those haiku and submit.

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Last year (2021), this pedometer geek writer decided to submit to many of the haiku journals, and I have had a fair amount of haiku accepted into journals. Over sixty haiku and/or senryu were accepted, but many more were rejected (or as some of my haiku writer friends say, “they just haven’t found the right journal; keep editing and keep submitting”). The year 2022 is now here, and submissions begin again.

Happy New Year! May 2022 be happy, healthy, and peaceful to all.