Winter Web: Haiku and Photo
Home destroyed
by wind, rain and ice.
Woven again in spring.
This is my entry in @dbooster's Haiku Contest.
The photograph is my own work also.
My thanks to my friends on @thewritersblock who helped me polish this up a bit. I ended up not queuing this one since a few friends helped, but haiku is welcome in the queue. If you queue for a contest, be sure to note it in the top of your poem (a field is coming in the queue as soon as our queue master has time) so contest judges can skip the ones they'll later be judging.
Oooh, I like the photo a bunch! The haiku really compliments it! (Or is it the other way around?)
I feel like I missed a vital conversation on how haikus don't have to be 5-7-5 syllables.
Dbooster and Bear both subscribe to the "one breath" theory of haiku. Dbooster has an article... somewhere.
Yeah, I was going to say, it reads like a haiku, but if I sit there and count my fingers like I did in Elementary school, then yeah, my fifth grader is reeling :P
I enjoyed your one breath, the exhalation of destruction and inhalation of future rebirth (in Spring). What is it Eliot said about April being the cruelest month...
I remember learning a thing or 2 from Dbooster’s piece & hope to try my hand at a haiku, one of these days :)
Excellent your photograohy ..Really awesome