Written for: Friday Writings #6: The Shorter The Sweeter? (posted by Rosemary)
"Greetings, dear wordsmiths! What have you been up to lately? Me, I’ve been reading a very interesting book. (Interesting to me, anyway.) Someone in one of the haiku groups I belong to on facebook recommended it: Well-Versed: Exploring Modern Japanese Haiku, by OZAWA Minoru. This reading has inspired my (optional) prompt for you today: Go micro! (a) Give us your own haiku on any subject (for some of you, I realise, this will be nothing new!) or – if you hate haiku – or if you write them all the time and want to do something different – give us any other kind of micropoem (i.e. up to 10 lines) formal or free. E.g., for the formal ones (excluding senryu and tanka, which I'm sure everyone already knows) there are lune, American sentence, gogyoshi, cherita, sevenling, shadorma, monostich, elfje, etc. etc. Please label your piece for the form you're using. (Any 10-line poem may be labelled a decastich.) Or: (b) Try a 'short short' story of up to 100 words You may present us with up to six micropoems or three short short stories in the one post. Unprompted: Or else, instead of the above, feel free to do your own thing. You may give us anything you like, old or recent, in any form, on any topic. (The only stipulation is that if it's prose, please don't exceed 369 words.) face to face at the base of a bare tree dog and squirrel gleaming blue and green near ocean in mid-Summer sea glass poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com
I love both these powerful, vivid images which (in the true spirit of haiku) convey so much more than what is stated.
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Thanks so much, Rosemary!
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Sara, my vote for sure is the first one. Our little toy poodle would be face to face with a squirrel but only for an instant. The next instant and the squirrel was up a tree and Katrin was on her hind feet barking up the tree at the squirrel.
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It is fun to watch, but we always know who is going to win!
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #2: Sara’s latest haiku for Poets and Storytellers!
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Thanks, Frank!
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Two good haikus, I love the stand-off. A vivid image.
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Thanks, Yvonne!
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I’ve seen a live version of the face-off with our dog and squirrels many times. (Squirrels always win) I enjoy your take on it
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Thanks Joel!
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