Before reading the Six Haikus, learn more about Rooms and Wheatgrass: An Irish Fantasy by reading below.
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Rooms has been entered in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest and has made it to the second round of judging. I'll find out on April 14th if I go on to the quarter-finals!
Six Haikus
Writing Haikus to me is more a feeling than following a set of rules. Sometimes I pay attention to the 5/7/5 syllable rule; sometimes I don't. I always use three lines, though, as I believe that brevity is the quintessential element of a Haiku as well as creating images, which are sometimes in juxtaposition.
1
In blue-haze night dreams
Her form melds with mine
Close, warm, and calming
2
A wooden, solid, rocker
Glides and moves
A stationary meditation in progress
3
He is not alone
He gazes out towards his life
Smiling his memories
4
Sitting picking grass
A bright tundra etched morning
Everything's alive
5
Spring appears in time
Popping blooms across green ground
Watering eyes laugh
6
Another yummy
lunch
Comfort food warm
and cozy
Let's do this
again
Copyright © Bob Stegner 2014
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