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Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge: Week 6 – Late & Summer

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Miriam Hurdle 4 comments

Using the words “late & summer” or just one or the other, write a Haiku poem. – Kiwinana

Santorini, Greece, Landscape, Nature

Summer heat lingers

No sign of autumn in sight

Winter will be late

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Kiwinana’s Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge: Week 6 – Late & Summer

Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge: Week 5 – Sheltering & Resting

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Miriam Hurdle 12 comments

Kiwinana’s Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge: Week 5 – Sheltering & Resting

A Thai veterinarian shows the baby tiger cub that had been drugged and hidden among stuffed toy tigers in the suitcase of a woman flying from Bangkok to Iran.

A Thai veterinarian fed the baby tiger cub that had been drugged and hidden among stuffed toy tigers in the suitcase of a woman flying from Bangkok to Iran. (SAKCHAI LALIT / ASSOCIATED PRESS) – August 7, 2010

Sheltering at last

Baby tiger cub rescued

Resting and be fed

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Kiwinana’s Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge: Week 5 – Sheltering & Resting

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Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge – Week 4 – Beauty & Nature

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Miriam Hurdle 22 comments

Using the words “beauty & nature” write a Haiku poem. – Kiwinana

Alberta

Alberta, Canada, Photo Credit – Patrick Tong

Nature’s great mystery

Ever changing Mount and Sea

Creation’s Beauty

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Kiwinana’s Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge – Week 4 – Beauty & Nature

Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge – Week 3 – Under & Growth

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Miriam Hurdle 12 comments

Kiwinana’s Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge – Week 3 – Under & Growth

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Premature babies

Underweight and height at birth

Miracle growth rate

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Note – both Mercy and Will were preemies. They are miracle grown-ups.

triathlon 4

dashed through finishing line at a triathlon

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Miriam Hurdle

Miriam Hurdle grew up in Hong Kong where she went to college and worked for five years before coming to the United States. While in Hong Kong, she taught Chinese as a Second Language at Hong Kong Baptist University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong for three years. She was also the Director of the Children’s Department at the Asian Outreach where she published four Chinese Children’s books. Miriam Hurdle came to the United States for her graduate studies. She received her master’s degrees in Christian Ministry from Portland Seminary, Counseling from Seattle Pacific University, and Education Administration from California State University, Los Angeles. After teaching in a California public school for fifteen years, she was promoted to a school district administrative position. She went on to do the postgraduate studies and earned her Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from La Verne University in California. Dr. Hurdle continued in her administrative position for ten years before her retirement. In her retired life, Dr. Hurdle enjoys doing volunteer counseling, reading, writing, blogging, singing, drawing, watercolor painting, gardening, photographing, and traveling. Dr. Hurdle is married to Lynton Hurdle and has one married daughter and one granddaughter.

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