Sunday, April 09, 2006

Haikus


Learned about haikus on this fancy internet. Poems of three lines where the first and last lines have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. There should be a reference to a season (although this may be subtle) and you should be led to see an everyday thing in a new way. Here I gave it a try:

This old pillow case
cools my sleepy cheek again;
purple velvet dreams.

Chocolate icecream
Carefully scooped late this night;
Devoured in haste.

His hand rests on my
Thigh where an hour ago there
Rested her bottom.

Sugar magnified
Reveals crystals; within each
sweet secret rainbows.

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