ku-me
A Haiku Chaining Game.
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Everyone is welcome to play – you do not have to be signed into WP or be a member to play.
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In a comment write a ku of your own that uses the word left beneath the previous ku – that’s the chain.
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Leave a new word beneath your ku for the next person to use in their own ku – that’s the chain too.
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Play as often as you would like to play.
A sample would be like this:
The word or previous word: branch
water branches
the kitchen window
in this storm
mustard
butterfly wings
dipped in mustard
this summer day
shine
The next person would then use the word shine in their haiku. So go ahead and play.
for all haiku/writings in this game, the writer of each haiku is considered to be the Copyright Owner for their own haiku and writing. it’s just the way of our time. please addressed use permission requests to the individual writer of each haiku.
June 25, 2010
A list of those who have played:
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Steve – heednotsteve – @ Heed Not Steve – June 2010
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Melissa – MLA – @ Red Dragonfly – June 2010
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Margaret – @ Haiku-doodle – November 2010
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Abigail – @ A Haiku Each Day – November 2010
A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2023 
salt
scattered snow like salt
seasoning the year
Mother may I?
form
form
spring boating
old leaves form small rafts
in the run-off water
dock
dock
soft spring sprouts
green dock, curly dock
dry summer seeds
dry wind
dry wind
summer seeds
rattle
patches
dry autumn gourd
slithering oakland serpent
rattle rattle
patches
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patches of color
spring gold, summer green, fall tan
winter tule fog
fog
fog
how the mountains
disappear
spatter
Margaret said:
birthday blossoms . . .
surprise lilies circling
my feet
Aloha, Wrick! Long time no play, but I was in the mood .
aloha Margaret – cool. it’s always cool to play ku-me.
feet
wet feet
I dance with the summer
sea
candle
Wishing I was there to dance with the Hawaiian sea today! But I’m grateful for a little rain!
power outage–
we light a candle to guide
the rain’s return
sand castle
my castle
each grain of sand
from the beach
yellow
(yeah, dancing in the rain counts – especially summer rain)
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birthday blizzard
surprised lilies circled
in defeat
… (March 2016 snowstorm blankets Colorado thru Michigan)
snow blankets
the forsythia a checkered mass
of yellow and white
frozen
triple-digit heat
Californian August
frozen fruit
ice rain
i pick a flavor
at random
corn silk
yellow corn
silk blouse flying
soothing day
sooth
first snow fall
through my window
soothing silence
frost
racket
morning racket
birds in the sunlight
after rain
nip
morning racket
a nip of what ails you
after the rain
snip
😛
winter sky
snipping out stars
for the children
parsnip 😉
parsnip
snow soup
the taste of parsnips
this evening
brass
bwahahaha – @ Steve – what fun, the way you play. i like it.
@ Melissa – oh yeah, i like “snipping out stars” that’s a cool line that has so many possibilities with the other two. fun. again.
brass
brass monkeys
staring into space
beyond the moon
aloha
aloha, Wrick!
aloha
aloha morning
the sweet scent of spring
blossoms
aloha Margaret. hahaha i may become one of those monkeys some day. . .
birthday blossoms . . .
surprise lilies circling
my feet
Aloha, Wrick! Long time no play, but I was in the mood . . .
My feet stand solid under me
so my voice can soar with springtime joy.
We understand under standing, my feet and I.
(Not a haiku. Just a poem tickled out from your “my feet” cue. Thanks.)
— Lois Richter, formerly from nervousness (Hi, Wrick!)
aloha Lois. yes. sometimes poetry seeps into my mind and refuses to do anything until it is written down. regardless of form. i’ve found it’s best to splat those down too.
my feet
arch and point
weight-bearing exercises
oh, my feet
foundation
squirrels
gathering acorns
foundation
lamp
earmuff (what a silly word!)
cold ear day
iPods beneath earmuffs
on the playground
oh wait.
what a silly word
unless it’s cold today
this earmuff
racket
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dance (from Melissa)
fireworks
a New Year’s Eve dance
with rain tonight
drift
thanks @ Margaret on the header/banner – i have fun doing those
to all – thanks for playing ku-me. i have a lot of fun with it. i hope you’ll give Ku On This a try too. the posts will be in the main blog altho there is some info under the Ku On This page of the top menu.
snowdrifts
outlining the path
to a new year
scallion
scallion
winter
the stores still have scallions
on half the planet
earmuff
day and day
under the sun, on the grass
charity
blink
climbing
into the time machine
don’t blink
script
🙂
a demand
– aLL tHeE baNaNas! –
in monkey script
veracity
veracity
the white lie
didn’t work
dare
Wrick, I love your festive banner on home page. Happy New Year to you!
first hour of the year
I dare him to walk
under the icicles
dance 🙂
the last dance
under a shower tree
yellow blossoms
slender
cabin fever
Lizzie Borden has nothing
on me
or
cabin fever
ready to sharpen the axe
on my husband
or
cabin fever
searching for the rabbit hole
in Wonderland
charity
😀 yeeouch!!!
sunset
cold dry air
ablaze
(I took a little liberty there)
umm . . .
liberty
liberty
burnt marshmallows
breathless campfire laughter
the sound of liberty
cabin
yes. i agree. you did Steve. bwahahaha – i’m glad you feel at ease enough to do so here. imo, if the writer can make a connection to the word – that’s enough of a connection for me. cool.
fiction
fiction with truth
wet paint in the alley
a graffiti myth
alternate
ha. i like the combination of zig zag and eggnog in that ku Margaret.
alternate wiring cycling in and out of dreams
web
web wide world
as far as the fly
can see
drive (sent from the Ohio Turnpike on my iPhone 🙂 )
drive
the drive
to find a perfect snowflake
childhood
oh. look. a found ku:
drive
sent from the Ohio Turnpike
on my iPhone
bwahahahahahaa. oops. i mean…
blaze
place head in oven
blaze paper thin words
number four five one
(aloha Jeff)
oven
broken oven
I store my library
in a safe place
straw
Careless spark lights straw.
Barn burns long into the night.
Morning brings ashes.
or
Careless spark ignites
Houses burn, night becomes day.
Don’t smoke while in bed.
I could come up with a hundred more of these! 🙂
Thank you so much for letting me play here! 🙂
she
Whoops, just realized the second haiku doesn’t include the word straw…Sorry!
aloha Scriptor Obscura – i sometimes think i am improving my haiku and then notice i’ve departed from the essence of what the haiku was doing too. not to worry.
she
the dog barks
she walks past the window
again
salt
salt water flour
soft + time = hard
not my love