At Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, Chèvre challenges us to use these 12 words in order (one per line) in a haiku series (like 12 hours in full circle of clock): 1. summer 2. princess 3. willow 4. oasis 5. palmtree(s) 6. camels 7. cruise-ship 8. snow 9. rainbow 10. yellow 11. shrine 12. prayer (or praying)
sultry summer birth
dark-eyed princess baby girl
thin as willow wisp
parents’ oasis
simple hut under palm trees
daughter worth camels
poverty’s cruise-ship
huddle near fire when snow falls
wishing on rainbow
yellow fever strikes
bury princess near old shrine
praying in the rain
a poem in my pocket 