Welcome to the #dailyhaikuprompt for AL 15th-22nd.
Thank you, Nathan Lowel, @nlowell, for sharing prompt words. Feel free to use any variation of the word.
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AL 15th— hyacinth
AL 16th— pheasant
AL 17th— calm
AL 18th— parsley
AL 19th— waning
AL 20th— phlox
AL 21th— kite
These hills
have nothing to say
and go on saying it
~Ken Jones
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#Hyacinth
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Daily Haiku Prompt 15 Apr: hyacinth
His Spartan youth lies,
his life spirit spills crimson –
Apollo's heart breaks.
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Notes
Apollo loved a Spartan youth, Hyacinthus. During a discus-throwing game, Apollo threw the discus with extreme force. Hyacinthus eagerly ran to catch it, but the discus bounced off the ground and struck him in the head. He died in Apollo's arms, and his blood became the hyacinth of old (not the modern flower).
A similar myth is extant for the crocus –
Galen, "Medicorum Graecorum Fragmenta" 13, 269 (Kuhn):
"When a youth called Crocus, while playing discus with Hermes, then unexpectedly stood up, when the discus fell on his head, the result was that he died on the spot, and when his blood dripped on the ground, the crocus grew from it."
This inspired my Mar 2023 haiku –
Hermes courts Crocus,
who stands when the discus flies:
Saffron bleeds like love.
Daily Haiku Prompt 16 Apr: pheasant
Sudden whistling wings
Spring from grass tussocks at hand –
Unwitting beater.
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Notes
As a child, I regularly disturbed pheasants in our fields, and was rewarded with a near heart-attack every time.
We had more partridges, but I remember the scares quite well. :)
Give me quail rising, any day, over a big pheasant taking off like a low-flying bomb …
This is pretty close to my experience, but as a child I didn't know the words that this man knows!
Link to "Scared by a pheasant" (with f-bombs of surprise):
Daily Haiku Prompt 17 Apr: calm
Boisterous wind blasts,
rising strings, tympani peals –
The centre stays calm.
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Notes
I wanted the image of an orchestra, as well as that of a hurricane. Both the eye of the storm and the audience in the concert hall are calm.
E.g., Frank Martin, "Concerto for 7 wind instruments, timpani, percussion, and string orchestra", allegro vivace (3rd mvmt) (1949):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpACDZjpuBQ
Tired of world chaos,
Seize calm, folding space and time.
Books own their physics.
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Daily Haiku Prompt 18 Apr: parsley
Bright and green garnish,
common to bouquet garni,
rarely used sparsely.
Daily Haiku Prompt 19 Apr: waning
These waning bright shades
melt into another time –
lost leaves shield new seeds.
Daily Haiku Prompt 20 Apr: phlox
Tundra to prairie,
where butterflies cut a rug
over fragrant phlox.
Daily Haiku Prompt 21 Apr: kite
Isis soars on high,
spreading her kite-like wings to
rebuff the big wind
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Notes
Isis became a kite (the bird) to resurrect the dead. Even though a kestrel is not a kite, the last line also quotes "The Windhover" (1877) by Gerald Manley Hopkins.
I caught this morning morning's minion minion favorite, darling; also, an underling or servant , king- dom of daylight's dauphin dauphin prince; a French historical term, along with “chevalier” , dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding…
C.L. Irwin 
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