Haiku: Echo-ruminations

The hills never bow down

Else, Pilgrim, how could

They echo a haiku?

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Echo Bonus:

When I took up this challenge by a wonderful haiku community, I had not written a haiku. 

Well, that might not be accurate. 

I could have written it without having known that it was a haiku. As the Challenge ends today, I feel glad to have taken up the challenge. My haiku are still nascent but with time I will perfect them. 

I feel good when I parade my failures. That way, I will have some evidence of where I came from. 

For those who had found time to read the pieces, "asante sana".

Sincerely,

Haiku: Rhythm

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Riziki dances to chakacha

A burning chungu

On her head

She gyrates her hips

As a boneless dancer

Satiating patrons’ eyes

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Haiku: Charm

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Warm, inviting rays

Touching Kacheliba Hills

Coyly, ever tenderly

Peep through door hinges

Cowbells, hyraxes shriek

Morning’s seduction

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Haiku: Poise

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Poisoned arrows balanced

Betwixt bottles reeking of yokozuna

Lazy heads finding sleep on them

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Haiku: Phoenix

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Phoenix phantom dwells in me

In body and soul—

I can rise from ashes.

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Haiku: Lost

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Briskly, I criss-crossed the city

Looking for Hazina Towers

Near Utalii Lane

My pride wouldn’t stoop

To ask the good guard

So I walked some more

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Haiku: Water

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Behind the hills, water flows freely

Drank by tired pastoralists

And more by thirsty cows

In the city, they sell water

In packaged bottles

Gulped by travellers

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Haiku: Bull's Eye

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It’s a fallacy,Pilgrim,

Being spot-on

The Bull’s Eye is an illusion.

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Haiku: Bubbles

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Like fast-melting snow

So are bubbles:

Ephemeral.

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Haiku: Feather

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Ticking sensation

Of chicken feather

Caressing ear membranes

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Haiku: Bold

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Student A:

Small font, no bolds

Brilliant mind

Student B:

Big font, bold

Hazy mind

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Haiku: Winter

When he came to Africa

We bullied him to wear coats

As if we knew winter

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Haiku: Chime

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His Seiko 5 ticks

tick tock tick tock

Turns out he is late!

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Haiku: The Art of Hypnotizing Termites

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They sit at the railway line

Intermittently hitting rails

Poof poof, be out termites!

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Mukobero

Mukobero roots

Sold in traffic jams

Selling like tabloid gossip

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Post-Echoes:

Mukobero- An aphrodisiac that 

 originates from Kakamega, Kenya.

Haiku- Elixir

Steamy hot, dark

Kahawa tungu served in mini-cups

Sipfuls to awake tired thoughts

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Post-Echoes:

Kahawa Tungu- Very strong Coffee common 

    among the Swahili people at the Coast of Kenya

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Heights of Haiku Challenge

W is for Worms

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Clods of soil in tight fists held

Up there, clouds frittered

Yet, worms lick on, hope alive

For a prompt # 67 Yearn
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