Monday, 27 April 2015

Day 27: Hay(na)ku


Today's prompt is to write a hay(na)ku - a riff on the traditional haiku: three lines of one word, then two words and then three.   Such a simple form, discreet in meaning but also subtly powerful. I had fun with this one and wrote several, one about the form itself. Try it - it's short and sweet and kind of addictive or -

Short
and sweet
and ridiculously addictive!



Metamorphosis

Chrysalis 
opens just
enough to see. 

Wings
come from 
mind stretched wide. 

One 
step then -
another and another. 

Larva
meet pupa;
hello orange wonder. 

*** 

Lemon Days

How 
can anything
be sweet again? 

***

Hay(na)ku

Pyramid 
of form
much and little. 





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