A new take on the haiku

Our prompt today seems quick and easy, but I think it may just fox me yet! We are to write a hay(na)ku; a variant on the haiku, created by poet Eileen Tobios and named by Vince Gotera, a long-time Na/GloPoWriMo participant.

A hay(na)ku consists of a three-line stanza. The first line has one word, the second has two, and the third line – you guessed it – has three words.

We may write just one hay(na)ku, or link several together to create a longer poem. I have always believed that less is more, so I will try my best to write a single powerful hay(na)ku as the original haiku was intended to be written.

I'll take inspiration from my present circumstances...

Silence

all around

except one cricket

Andrea Vermaak © 2020

Haibun: A second attempt

We have been challenged once again to write a haibun. I do not think I got it right in my previous attempt. Hopefully, this time I will be closer to being on the mark...

I'll begin with two verses of what I deem to be prose poetry (please correct me if I'm wrong) and end with a haiku.

Grassy knolls and barley fields

roll by unnoticed 

by un-wandering eyes

that only see what is inside

When will we open our eyes 

to the beauty 

of what passes us by

on journeys 

to far off places?

Though trains do not stop

for us to gaze upon small

wonders, we can look

Hello haiku!

Another form of poetry with which I have always struggled is the haiku. Now is my chance to prove that I am worthy of the form (I hope!)

 

Autumn

 

Many colours of the sunset

Lie scattered on cold and dusty ground,

The winds begin to change.

Andrea Vermaak