Cataract scales fall
Illusions of leadership
Fade before our eyes
written in response to RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #136 – “Eye” and “Fade”
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Your answer to the challenge was RATHER interesting… Is writing in Haiku a strength of yours?
Thank you for your comment. Sometimes it’s all I have time for, and I would rather write something than nothing. I often feel I should make more effort to be truer to the original methodology for Haiku though, and to vary my writing more.
So, how quick are you with the use of Hiaku? I’m curious, it’s true!
Ha! My first online Haiku! But seriously, my curiousity stems from my desire to be versatile in my poetry. Right now, it’s all coffee-house style slam poetry.
A simple haiku will usually take me about 10-15 minutes, but sometimes the poem needs to lengthen into a tanka (2 more 7-syllable lines) or a second haiku.
so there’s haiku, which is a poem in 17 syllables, or a tanka, which is a poem in 34 syllables?
sorry, miscalculated…tanka is a poem in 31 syllables?
Yup. Check out the guidelines on RonovanWrites for his weekly haiku challenge – it covers tanka as well