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Welcome to Haiku Heights, a place for weekly Haiku prompts. Every Saturday, some time between 9AM and 12PM IST, I'll give a word as the theme for the week's haiku. You are free to use it as you feel appropriate (in a Haiku, or Senryu ; not a free verse). You can use the word, or build upon its meaning, the only rule here is that it should sync with the topic.! We hope you enjoy sharing your haiku with us here each week.

If you are a contributor here, you can also suggest topics for future prompts. I'll save your suggestions and pick up one from the list at random each Sunday! You can suggest at the prompt suggestions page.


Friday, July 23, 2010

Prompt Suggestions For Haiku Heights


04 August 2012.

Dear friends, haiku poets who have been part of this haiku loving community, thank you for your support till now, and hope you shall continue to honor us with your works in the future as well.

This is the place where you can suggest prompts for the future, and I, as host, will take up, some if not all of your suggestions as inspiration in any week of the meme.

These are the suggestions I've accepted so far. (as on 04.08.2012 at 11:11AM Indian Standard Time.) The ones in bold have already been taken up.


1. AMITY : Flourish, Blemish, Metamorphosis, Splendor   (4/4)

2. NANKA : Puppets, Struggle, Windmill, Bubbles, Gem, Honeybees, Drawbridge (6/7)

3. RUMYA : Spyhole, Urn, Rejoice, Bullseye, Porcelain, Deserted, Vital (7/7)

4. GEMMA WISEMAN : Stranger, Impression, Field, Flood, Blind, Charm, Sponge (7/7)

5. TWEETY : Wings, Magic, Heal, Phoenix, Mesmerize (5/5)

6. UMA: Command, Trance, Liberty, Endurance, Kismet (5/5)

7. SOMEONE IS SPECIAL: Hush, Chime, Lullaby (3/3)

8. DEEPAK: Sacred, Poison (2/2)

9. YAMINI: Self, Rhythm, Beauty, Space (4/4)

10. LYNETTE KILLAM: Serenity, Innocence, Yearn, Illusion, Wonder (5/5)

11. TARANG SINHA: Quench, Covert, Poise, Hypnotic, Coherent (5/5)

12. AMY (BTTRFLYSCR) : Friendship, Water, Flaw, Obsession. (4/4)

13. PRIYANKA BHOWMICK : Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Mirror, Mystery, Tree (5/7)

14. KRIS (CHEVREFEUILLE) : Christmas, Seashore, Milky Way (2/3)

15. NIMUE: Kiss, Crimson, Silk, Feather, String, Aura, Lock (7/7)

16. ICE: Cold (1/1)

17. ANANYA (SPREE) : Mirage, Slavery, Lost (3/3)

18. SARAS: Celestial, Bliss (2/2)

19. PAULAMI: Whisper, Bold, Born, Agile, Being (4/5)

20. VEE: Faith, Forgive (2/2)

21. MEGHANA: Insomnia, Resonance, Mystic (3/3)

22. VIBHUTI: Clasp, Memory (2/2)

23. MIA MIRZA: Life, Resurrection (2/2)

24. GLH: Hidden, Solitude (2/2)

25. ROSIE: Infatuation, Impossible (2/2)

26. FIDUCIA: Elixir, Confession, Grimace, Render (2/4)

27. VIVIENNE: Light, Blue, Serendipity (3/3)

28. ZONGRIK: Tiptoe, Squeeze, Possible, Gloss (2/4)

29. HEAVEN: Page, Pepper, White, Fresh, Black, Sugar, Zest (3/7)

30. AAKRITI: Music, Melody, Hope, Divine (3/4)

31. PRINCESS POO: Fate, Renovation (2/2)

32. ADRIENNE: Childhood, Waves, Waterfall, Bridge, Fire, Warmth, Sleep (3/7)

33. BECCA GIVENS: Eccentricity, Cacophony, Symphony, Clarity, Doubt (2/5)

34. GERALDINE: Harbor, Bliss, Revelation (2/3)

35. RACHANA SHAKYWAR: Hold, Creation, Hour, Script, Free, Churn, Up High (1/7)

36. INVISIBLE SILENCE: Joy, Paperboat, Chirp, Grass (1/4)

37. JAYANTH: Mask, Fortitude, Battlefield, Meadow, Chivalry, Thanksgiving (1/6)

38. MARA: Pine, Starve, Useless, Shatter (1/4)

39. VINATI: Breathe, Patience, Vibrant, Temptation, Desire (5/5)

40. MAHARUKH: Numb, Soul, River, Breeze, Lights (1/5)

41. CLAUDE: Forget-me-not, Waltz, Firefly, Rivulet, Den, Desert, Island (1/7)

42. PURPLE MIST: Rainbow, Enigma, Cloud, Rain, Footprint, Color, Wish (0/7)

43. SUSANWRITESPRECISE: Paradox, Musk, Alien (0/3)

44. JAIDEEP: Stone, Glory, Dusk, Shade, Moment, Green, Glow (0/7)

45. SUSAN DANIELS: Stars, Hummingbird, Fingerprint (1/3)

46: PIPHI: Death, Betrayal, Loneliness (0/3)

Other prompts that have been done (my own themes) are: Moments, Still, Play, Alive, Eager, Festival, Appreciation, Sin, Optimistic, Instinct, Charity, Beginning, Nigh, Write, Travel, Meaning, First, True, Support, Wisdom, Ordinary and Ghosts. (22)

And (7) times, we've had open prompts where any haiku have been accepted.


Leo.
Haiku Heights, Host.
04/08/2012.

62 comments:

vivinfrance said...

serendipity

light

blue

Chèvrefeuille said...

Light a nice prompt. I love to suggest another one. In this time of year maybe "Christmas"?

zongrik said...

cranberry

squeeze

tiptoe

possible

gloss

windmill

Leo said...

@viv, thanks! :)

@chevre, thanks! :)

@zongrik, i've taken 4 of the 6 into consideration for further prompts. cranberry i'm not taking, and windmill has already been done :)

Heaven said...

Suggestions:

Fresh
Pepper
White
Black
Sugar
Stairway
Zest
Sands
Well (like a deep well)
Page

Chèvrefeuille said...

Some suggestions:

Milky Way
Seashore
Springtime
Cherry Blossom

Aakriti said...

here are mine:
Music,
Melody,
Divine/ Divinity,
Faith,
Hope.:)

Adrienne & The Wolf said...

Hello! A newbie here would like to suggest the following:

waves
chestnut
waterfall
bridge
fires
warmth
sleep
childhood

Leo said...

@Heaven, have added most of them into my Excel file, and used one already as well. Thanks!

@Chèvrefeuille, have taken Seashore. Spring has been suggested earlier by Priyanka, so Springtime would be similar. Other two are too focussed on an aspect I feel, so not taken them at present.

@Aakriti, thank you, have considered all.

@Adrienne, welcome aboard. As you see, February prompts are all already out. Have taken into consideration all except Chestnut and Sleep. Please try & be active however, since it'd be delighful that when your prompt is ongoing, your haiku is there too! Thanks!

Princess Poo said...

Here are my suggestions:

Invictus
Serendipity/Fate.
Renovatio

beccagivens said...

Eccentricity
Symphony
Clarity
Cacophony
Doubt

Leo said...

Fate and Renovation has been accepted.

Leo said...

Thank u.

Geraldine said...

harbour

bliss

revelation

Rachana Shakyawar said...

Creation
frosting
hold/holding
script

Mara said...

Starving

Useless

Shattered

Pine (not necessarily the pine tree)

Greasy

Toothpicks (Ha, Ha! Don't know how or why I came up with that word.)

Rachana Shakyawar said...

Hour, free, churn, up high

blackandwhiteheart said...

my suggestions :

1) Fortitude
2) battlefield
3) Chivalry
4) meadow
5) thanks giving
6) mask

regards,
jayanth.

beccagivens said...

Leo -- in case you wanted to update your newest format of suggestions ... we did clarity and doubt during the April Haiku Height Challenge -- thank you for using these suggestions!! :)

Invisible Silence said...

i would like to suggest some too..

paper-boat
joy
laughter
chirp
grass

:)

MAHARUKH said...

desire
numb
soul
pages
river
breeze
lights
empty roads

Claude LOPEZ-GINISTY said...

forget-me-not
waltz
firefly
rivulet
den
lipstick
desert
island

Purple Mist said...

Rainbow
Enigma
Cloud
Rain
Footprint
Mystery

Purple Mist said...

Colour
Wish

susanwritesprecise said...

Paradox

Musk

alien

Jaideep said...

My suggestions are :
Stone
Glory
Dusk
Shade
Poison
Moment
Green
Glow

susandanielseden said...

my suggestions:
waterfall
hummingbird
fireflies
stars
fingerprint

Piphi / Prateek Kunwar said...

Death
Betrayal
Damnation
Loneliness
- Some of the absolute truths of our life, considered negative by some, needs to be up there in the list of all these wonderful Haiku. :-)

Leo said...

Taken 3 into the list of prompts. Thanks.

Leo said...

Thank you for the suggestions, Susan :)

Have not taken Firefly (previously suggested by Claude) and Waterfall (previously suggested by Adrienne).

Leo said...

Have not taken Poison, which was already done as a prompt.

Leo said...

Thank you, Susan.

Leo said...

Have not taken Mystery which was suggested by Priyanka before.

Leo said...

Haven't taken Lipstick :) but the others are in the bag!

Leo said...

Desire and Pages have already been done as prompts, Maharukh! :) So not taken those, and Empty Roads.

Leo said...

Joy and laughter can be interlinked I feel.. so not taken the latter at present.

Leo said...

Thanks.

Leo said...

Thanks.

Leo said...

Have left out the last two, others taken.

Leo said...

left the2nd, others accepted.

Leo said...

Thank you.

Leo said...

Updated.

Dulcina said...

Here are my suggestions:
.incense
.blood
.birth
.moon
.snow
Leo, please, delete my link number 28 for Haiku topic "Green": I don't know why it doesn't work. Number 29 is ok.
Sorry for the inconveniences.

SusanWritesPrecise said...

These Are my suggestions:

Champagne
Dust
Pluto
anomaly

Kristjaan Panneman said...

Love to suggest a new prompt. As you could have read in my posts for HH I am living close to nature and I feel close to the wiccan tradition. So I would like to suggest
1. Witch
2. Pagan
3. Magical
4. Mysterious

Thanks for the September Heights Leo.

Susan said...

Prompt suggestions. The one with * can be repeated soon:

Mother*
Father*
egg*
Employment
Almond
Fortitude
Conscious
Monopoly
Snack
Swing
Carpet
Runaway
Ornament
Rescue

PattiKen said...

- enigma
- shroud
- dreamscape

Cressida de Nova said...

cyclical
nebulous
assuage
taffeta
shimmer

Leo said...

I'm taking only the last one for now. I think challenging as the first 4 are, they're scientific. A haiku can look at more simple words and topics :)

Leo said...

I have already used Shroud :) Am also taking the last suggestion, we can use it as Dream or Dreamscape sometime.

Enigma has already been suggested earlier by Purple Mist, so in order to avoid confusion, I'll consider that into my collection. Thanks.

Leo said...

That's a huge list, Susan :) I've taken Mother, Father, Egg, Conscious, Swing and Rescue into my list.

The first three can be repeated, but with so many suggestions coming my way, it'll be a while I guess :)

Leo said...

Have taken and used Witch, and also taking Pagan :)

Magic and Mystery has already been done, so a repeat is not on at the moment. Thank you :)

Leo said...

I'll take just Dust for now.

Thanks for the suggestions :)

Leo said...

Taken all and used Moon and Birth already. Thanks!

Sri Valli said...

Here are my suggestions...

chameleon
clue
violin
paintbrush
cage
bubble
silence
origami
butterfly

Meenakshi Malhotra said...

Here are suggested prompts

clouds,
guilt
feelings
storm
Red
Stranger
whirlpool
soul mate
sand


Judith Westerfield said...

I am affiliated with a large health site which will be going on-line and is open to show-casing poetry, haiku and the like. In that vain here are some suggested prompts that might resonate with people who have medical conditions.

pain
healing
health
hope
struggle
strive
alive


franza said...

hello to you who created this beautiful sit, i am sseking advice: how did you install this linky thing (dont laugh)...do one has to pay for it in order to use it? i am searching for a link widget which is free to use for a blog, similar to the idea behind yours...

Leo said...

@Valli, have taken Silence, Clue, Origami and Butterfly for now :) Thanks.

@Judith: some of your suggestions are already done here. Have taken Pain, Health and Strive for now. :)Thanks.

@Meenakshi: have taken Storm, Guilt, Red and Sand for now :) Thanks!

@Franza: it is free. you just need to make an account at Inlinkz, or Blenza.com or such websites to get Linky widgets.

Mohini Puranik said...

Slavery,
Illusion







rallentanda said...

dicrepitude
soporific
measure
crescendo
cadence

Satya said...

Story
Snippet
Puppet
Magic wand
Actor
Sweater
Grey
Luncheon
Rummage