Grey ~ Haiku #38-45 ~ Haiku Challenge (March 22-28, 2016) + 1

I have to say, Grey Wind and Gravity are my favorites of this selection. As for the rest, well, I seem to have had a theme in mind for this week of haiku. Grey Wind originated while I was trying to write for the #haikuchallenge (feel), but wound up going a different direction. The rest actually fit the required word.

You know, there's something very therapeutic about writing haiku. I like to imagine haiku in the poetry world is what Sudoku is in the number-puzzle world; it's brief and condensed, but can be a real thinker.

Or, maybe, I'm just talking out my arse. Whatever the case, I wrote another eight haiku:

Grey Wind

The wind howls through grass
And whispers between the trees
This grey evening

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Not Felt
(#haikuchallenge 3/22/16)(feel)

Can you say you feel?
Can you say you ever loved?
When you looked at me?

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Gravity

(#haikuchallenge 3/23/16)(always)

The ever-presence
The gravitational pull
Always brings us down

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The Hole
(#haikuchallenge 3/24/16)(pull)

Why do you stay down?
Pull yourself up off the ground
And out of that hole

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The Hole II
(#haikuchallenge 3/25/16)(deep)

Why don't you listen?
Come on, it can't be that hard
Six feet's not that deep

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Black Umbrellas
(#haikuchallenge 3/26/16)(tardy)

The heaven's tears fall
The descent coming tardy
The ritual's over

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Drive Home
(#haikuchallenge 3/27/16)(now)

Now our song comes on
Through the rain and the static
Is it clearer there?

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Unasked
(#haikuchallenge 3/28/16)(question)

I'll hold on to you
I'll keep you safe in my heart
My unasked question

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Haiku Challenge (March 15-21, 2016) ~ Haiku #30-37

I think, perhaps, I have commitment issues. Try as I might, I simply can not stick to a poetic routine. Perhaps routines work against the poetic inspiration? Regardless, I have decided to keep using the #haikuchallenge prompts, even though I have completely failed the concept of writing a haiku daily.

That being said, this post picks up where I left off from the previous post, with an additional poem that has nothing to do with the #haikuchallenge. I wrote Unsaid pt. 2 as a continuation of my thoughts after writing Unsaid. There's this concept I have been wanting to work with, and that is telling narrative through haiku. Or, to be more accurate, to tell haiku-inspired narrative, as my haiku are non-traditional and mostly haiku in form only. With that in mind, Blurred II is a continuation of my thoughts from Blurred in a previous post.

As usual, I encourage feedback in the comments below this post or via twitter @WestonHasty. One of these days, perhaps, I'll write some traditional haiku to shake things up a bit.

Unsaid
(#haikuchallenge 3/15/16)(send)

"Hi" the message reads.
Just do it. Hit send. Hit send.
Delete and delete.

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Unsaid pt. 2

It would have been easy
Hitting send and just waiting.
The blinking cursor |

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The Journey
(#haikuchallenge 3/16/16)(almost)

"Almost there." He said.
A busted, decrepit car.
"Almost..." Choked whisper.

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Blurred II
(#haikuchallenge 3/17/16)(need)

Defining a need.
Connection, Interaction
and Conversation

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Horizon
(#haikuchallenge 3/18/16)(far)

The distant mountain
Not so distant at sundown
Far, the here will be

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Milk Carton
(#haikuchallenge 3/19/16)(ran)

Left unattended
No less happy here than there
And so the boy ran

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Circus
(#haikuchallenge 3/20/16)(horror)

Feral Hit And Run
Cacophony of Silence
Roadside Horror Show

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The Bridge
(#haikuchallenge 3/21/16)(bridge)

Shelves lined long with tomes
That musty odor that hangs
A sign reads, "The Bridge"

 

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Haiku Challenge (March 1-7, 2016) ~ Haiku #16-22

The following haiku were written as a part of the #haikuchallenge on Twitter. I did some experimenting on some of these. I don't typically rhyme in my haiku (at least, not intentionally), but I made every line rhyme in Sol. In The Regular, Determined and Lost Sight, I experimented with the idea of dialogue in haiku, which is something I have not personally seen or tried before. Feel free to comment/critique down below and let me know which was your favorite!

Storytime
(#haikuchallenge 3/1/16)(fable)

The Little One's snug
Beside the bed I take seat
A fable in hand

Sol
(#haikuchallenge 3/2/16)(summer)

A great ball of blaze
Shimmering, shining through haze
Summer Sun's long days

The Regular
(#haikuchallenge 3/3/16)(regular)

Eyes up, "Who's this guy?"
Bumbling, stumbling through the door
"He's the Regular"

Determined
(#haikuchalleng 3/4/16)(weak)

"Weak." He told himself,
Rising up from off the ground,
"I'll never be weak."

Lost Sight
(#haikuchallenge 3/5/16)(prospect)

"They're all terrible."
"Have you seen the new prospect?"
"No, and why bother?"

Sleepy
(#haikuchallenge 3/6/16)(long)

Wide, gaping mouth-hole
Long, airy exhalation
Truly, a great yawn

Curious
(#haikuchallenge 3/7/16)(ask)

"Why?" the child might ask.
An answer time and again.
Inexhaustible.



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Haiku Challenge (Jan. 14-17, 2016) ~ Haiku #12-15

I wrote the following haiku as part of the #haikuchallenge on Twitter from a while back. I only made it four days in, but I thought I'd put up what I wrote, anyway.

Ruthless Jack
(#haikuchallenge 1/14/16) (fumble)

Frosty's frozen hands
Fumble for and grip my throat
Tightly on this night

Violent Winds
(#haikuchallenge 1/15/16) (bent)

The howling torrents
The bent trees and darkened skies
And the Earth turns still

Bribe

(#haikuchallenge 1/16/16) (bribe)

Bitter, icy cold

Could I only bribe Summer

Bribe with my shivers

Faith

(#haikuchallenge 1/17/16) (faith)

The Sun dips below

But the Children need not fear

Have faith in a dawn



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