Hello all! I'm back after a bit of a hiatus and hopefully am in the swing of things now that we are in week 2 of the fall semester.
The haiku sonnet is a form described by David Marshall, an English teacher and writer living in Chicago and blogging at Haiku Streak. Essentially, this form combines four haiku with a final two-line “couplet” consisting of seven and/or five syllable lines.
You can read some examples of David's work at Haiku Sonnet. While his poems don't rhyme (as haiku do not), I'm thinking I may attempt to include rhyme in my stretches.
So, there's your challenge. I hope you'll join me this week in writing a haiku sonnet or two. Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.
Ten Years Later
ReplyDeleteIn this Finland year,
My heart still in the winter
Though it is summer,
My friend Nora dead,
Marianna holding on
by various threads,
and all thee new deaths
combining into the one--
you on that cold bed.
Would I trade my friends
To hold you for one quick night
and say these last things--
The words that were never said,
Only love, love, love, love, love.
©2016 Jane Yolen all rights reserved
Ah, Jane, wrenchingly lovely. j
ReplyDeleteHeartbreaking, Jane.
DeleteUsed to be in May
ReplyDeletewe had a good half-dozen
birthdays thru till June.
Most years I’d forget
a couple for no reason,
fail to send a card.
One by one they have
passed on, leaving us a May
of empty, but for
flowers and the sun
that warms my brain enough to
recall every one
without exception on the
very day that they were born.
© Judith Robinson all rights reserved
Love that, Judith, ending with the positive!
ReplyDeleteJane