Monthly Archives: July 2022

Valentina Ranaldi-Adams’ monthly journal, Stardust Haiku: Poetry With a Little Sparkle, is now online for July 2022. This is the sixty-seventh monthly issue. Haiku poets from Canada, India, Italy, Nepal, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America … Continue reading →

This week’s prompt, set by guest editor Alex Fyffe, at the Haiku Foundation’s weekly column, Haiku Dialogue, was to write haiku with onomatopoeia. Haiku poets from across the globe wrote noisy haiku, and twenty-one different nations are represented. This pedometer … Continue reading →

The previous week’s prompt at Charli Mills’ Carrot Ranch writing blog was to write a 99-word (no more, no less) piece about floats or floating. Here is the prompt from the site: July 18, 2022, prompt: In 99 words (no … Continue reading →

This week’s Haiku Dialogue column at the Haiku Foundation is all about the use of the literary devices known as synecdoche and metonymy. Quoting from the guest editor, Alex Fyffe: “Synecdoche and metonymy are two similar literary devices that are … Continue reading →

This week’s prompt, set by Charli Mills, for the Word Wranglers at Carrot Ranch was as follows: July 11, 2022, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story inspired by the idea, “for a day.” It doesn’t … Continue reading →

This week’s Haiku Dialogue column at the Haiku Foundation was all about sowing seeds, whether literal or metaphorical. Carole MacRury, the guest editor, chose haiku from haiku poets around the world. There were poets from five continents and seventeen countries. … Continue reading →

It’s been some time since this pedometer geek writer has had a haiku published on the Haiku Foundation’s weekly column, Haiku Dialogue, but last week the guest editor Carole MacRury chose one of the haiku submitted. It was to be … Continue reading →

This past week’s prompt over at Charli Mills’ Carrot Ranch was to write a 99-word story (no more, no less) about a swarm. For whatever reason, this pedometer geek writer missed the submission cut-off. Normally, the prompt is given on … Continue reading →