Thursday, April 3, 2008

Poetry challenge: Day 3

Today's prompt is: write a haiku.


Off to read what makes a haiku, a haiku before I attempt to writeone. I know they are really short and syllables make a pattern (5-7-5, I think).

Ok. Here's what I just (re)learned: It is about nature. Contains a word that represents the season. Uses a juxtaposition of images. No similes or metaphors. In Japanese it's 5-7-5 sounds (syllables). In English it's generally short-long-short.

Here goes nothing...

black three-part body
awoken by the season
crawls on the table

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