For the fifth poem, we were given free reign to choose from one of many forms of poetry, from things like couplets to limericks. I chose the haiku, not because it was easy, being so small – far from it, haiku is a very intense and challenging thing to write, especially if you’re not doing it in Japanese. Many people think that a haiku is simply a small poem compose of three lines with seventeen syllables, organized as five syllables on the first and third lines, and seven syllables in the second. However, there is much more to it than that, as haiku also makes use of what is called a “cutting word”, which acts as a verbal punctuation (like a comma, or…hell, saying like) that splits the haiku’s two subjects, but also unifies those two subjects as part of a greater theory. Haiku are also normally about nature, which is what I did for my first two haiku, which also allows you to understand the structure a little more with the use of two subjects split and joined by the cutting word. The other four haiku, I forewent nature and had a little fun, both focusing on something I like, and also challenging myself to find multisyllabic words.
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Natural Selection
Fire in the Sky
Orange leaves, like fire
Stars that burn, falling to Earth
Days grow shorter still
Rain in Life
Rain falls, my hair wet
Rain hits earlier, I age
A different road
Endless Fantasy
Warrior
Adrenaline flows
War cry on the battlefield
Blood flows, nothing feared
Magician
A spark from the hand
His prestidigitation
The grand lies to crowds
Rogue
Surreptitiousness
Skulking, the shadows a friend
Lightly lifted coin
Cleric
Precious life, sustained
Ecclesiastically
And creatures rebuked
