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Six days, no haiku
Someone throw me a lifeline
Pencil poised to strike!
Six days
23 Sunday Apr 2017
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23 Sunday Apr 2017
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Six days, no haiku
Someone throw me a lifeline
Pencil poised to strike!
Oh, dear! A lifeline he needs…
musing by the stream
the poet wrestles his lines
into inky swirls
🙂
The lines,
Being greatly practised
In the arts
Of turning minds
And lengthening the woe
Of scribblers, great and small
Smiled.
And so did the reader. 🙂
This is fallow time,
Cloud-gazing time – rooting in,
Haiku will break forth.
Good thoughts, thank you. Sometimes life gets in the way of writing but as you say, fallow time 🙂
🙂
love this.
Good🍧
Thanks for giving the world another humorous self-referential haiku. (I know of 3 others.) Somewhere, the ghosts of Gödel and Basho are (hi-5)-ing each other. BTW, the predicament in your haiku has a precedent:
After 6 hectic days,
writer’s block dissipated.
God wrote a haiku.
Does that make him a seventh day balladist?
Thank you, I really appreciate your generous comments.
Hi Bill, I am enjoying your site. I noticed the photo of the poppy bud about to flower with the raindrops on it over to the left in your flickr photos and couldn’t resist composing a haiku:
raindrops on sepals
could not contain flames within––
sensation of heat
Warmest regards,
Patricia
Hi Patricia, many thanks for your generous comments, glad your enjoying my efforts. Your haiku is spot on and captures the image as I see it, that hidden fire! Episode 2, the blooming, is on its way.
Warm regards on this cool April morning,
Bill
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Love it, Bill!
I had a similar issue a while back, and then I thought…
concise lines of prose,
syllables: five-seven-five;
haiku is complete
(https://searching4theshot.com/2016/04/06/haiku/)
~Richard 🙂
Oh, I like that, wonder why we get so hooked?
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