Haiku – River & Stone

Stones on river bed
Oblivious to surface
Frothing sturm und drang

 

Written for: https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-112-riverstone/

Haiku – Sunset

Song thrush trills sunset
Bringing down the black curtain
Finally, silence

 

 

https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-81-trillfinal/

Blog Tip / Haiku

Keep your blog style fresh,
With sharp, well-written content
And readers WILL come!

 

Written for : https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-80-stylefresh/

 

Hope’s Return

Each newborn baby;
Crystallisation of hope’s
Cyclical return.

 

 

Picture credit: flickr.com/photos/curioustangles/13139150805

 

Written for: https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-79-crystalhope/

Haiku – Vast & Clear

I thought I’d start the New Year with some positive thoughts 🙂

Life’s ocean is vast.
The way forward is clear:
Just keep paddling.

 

 

Written for https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-78-vastclear/

Picture credit: flickr.com/photos/davidyuweb/7137695529

Haiku – New Year

Calendar moves on.
Fresh resolutions are made.
New year. Old me.

 

 

https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/12/28/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-76-yearnew/

 

Haiku – “Day” & “Sing”

Longing for freedom
Songbird greets the break of day
With hope’s bright chorus

 

https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-76-singday/

 

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Haiku – “Charm” & “Look”

#1
Beneath the surface
Everyone has charms to find
To those who’re looking

#2
He lacked grace and charm,
Trading on boyish good looks,
He went a long way

#3
Challenge this viewpoint:
No such thing as a charmed life,
Claim those who are rich

#4
Don’t look for a charm
To win the heart of your love
Show her inside yours

https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-75-charmlook/

Haiku – Magic

Each stolen snowflake,
A sweet moment on the tongue
Lover’s farewell kiss

 

Ronovan blogged earlier this week about a new form of haiku and free verse, which he’s calling freku. He explains it like this:

By taking a standard poem … and then attempting to sum that poem up in the three lines of a Haiku, you have quite a challenge. It is almost like developing a proverb of an idea.

There is some more information here: https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/new-form-of-haiku-poetry/

This is my attempt at this. The above haiku should be read in conjunction with the “magic” poem published earlier today – https://altheauthor.wordpress.com/2015/12/10/magic/ . I’m fairly happy with both versions, in different ways. The poem allows more depth and narrative around the situation, and the haiku takes a snapshot of the central moment and crystallizes that.

Would love to hear any thoughts that you have on either or both poems 🙂

 

Photo: flickr.com/photos/reallyterriblephotographer/4839625065

Haiku – “Wolf” & “Cake”

#1
Wolf caked in prey’s blood
Savouring chase’s success,
Staining snow deep red

#2
Some might think it’s cool:
It’s certainly no cakewalk
Being a werewolf!

#3
The Wolf of Wall Street:
He had his cake and ate it…
Comeuppance followed

#4
Creatives beware,
Leeches, wolves and parasites
Will eat up your slice

 

https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-74-cakewolf/