I thoroughly enjoy teaching my SJF Communications “Capturing Your Creativity With Haiku” Workshops at local libraries, online or in person elsewhere! I’ve been teaching on and off since 2018. Here are some photos and poems from participants from my most recent (4) Haiku workshops. Whether I have 2 participants or 20, I still savor the outcome – creative writing with Haiku combined with my nature photography (or other inspirations the attendees might have)!

I’ve added photos and several Haiku poems from my recent workshops at the Ramona (SD County), Skyline Hills (SD City), Casa de Oro (SD County) and Bonita-Sunnyside (SD County) Libraries. As always, it’s so rewarding for me to see how creativity develops with attendees! As a contracted performer/instructor for the County as well as City of San Diego, I want to thank the library branches, and Friends of the Libraries for all of your support and all of the attendees for joining in me in these “Capturing Your Creativity with Haiku” Workshops!

For more information or to book a workshop (Individual or Group) with Susan:
Information LINK: https://sjfcommunications.com/haiku-workshops/
Or, Email info@sjfcommunications.com or sjfcommunications@gmail.com.

Here below, my nature photography prompts which encouraged and sparked Haiku writing about the actual photos seen. Additionally, some poems were written with attendees thoughts after our workshop, (not necessarily photo prompts). It’s all good! Enjoy these Haiku….

From the Ramona Library 6/26/2024

Bouquet

Hand painted with much love

Anniversary flowers

Farmer’s Market joy!

~ Anita
(No photo, she had memory from the bouquet her husband gave her for their anniversary)!
Also, Carol was in attendance – we are looking for her Haiku!

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From the Skyline Hills Library 8/31/2024

The Ocean

I go to the beach

for my self-preservation

Rejuvinate ME

~ Jacquelyn

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Scents of Season

I feel crispiness

My mood changes at this time

This is my season

~ Jacquelyn

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Orange Flower

Alien flower?

Blood vessels on yellow skin

Alien or not?

Nature – Space or Earth?

External organ

Dead alive or in between

Scary as can be

Secret morgue flower

Red blood vessels on yellow

A new dimension?

Putrid slimy wet

Unnaturally warm, dark

Beautiful bloody.

~ Carol Ann

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From the Casa de Oro Library 9/6/2024

It’s the Simple Things

Crisp air, bees buzzing

Calm whispers of morning sun

Sweet serenity!

~ Anonymous

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What happened to you?

Was there nothing that intrigued?

Was that all my fault?

All those days before

My love kept your interest

Until it didn’t

How was I to know

You were just a whip-poor-will

Any flower would do

Now I don’t get close

Nothing’s worth the grief, the shock

The pain of loss sucks

Now I thank my stars

That I can still show love

Unabashedly

My love is my love

I can fondly show it

Surely not to you.

There’s a lesson there

I don’t have to hate myself

For not being enough

It is not from lack

I am just too good for you

Sit with that, you chump!

~ Joy

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And Cathrine had to leave early, but she was a delight as well! Here is her photo and a few Haiku poems:

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Mother’s precious love

Gentle, kind, gives of herself

Gets kisses and hugs

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A harvest full moon

Shines brightly in the dark sky

Creates ocean tides

~Cathrine

From the Bonita-Sunnyside Library 9/7/2024

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Hottest year ever

And the coldest from now on

Apocalypse now

~Christina

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Ruby, sapphire flash

Little bully hummingbird

Never time to pause

~ Claire

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Beauty suspended 

In perpetual motion

Greedy bully wins

and a second one from Christina….

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Nature’s abundance

Capital’s scarcity myth

How pointless to fight

~Christina

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