Amazing thank you Rachel, I am so glad you posted I will post this with a link to your site on my next one (Saturday). Do you know, I don’t actually know how to write a Haiku! are there rules? or is it just three lines?
Haikus are typically three lines–the first line has five syllables, the second line has seven syllables, and the third line has five syllables. So, 5-7-5.
It’s kind of “easy.” The tricky part is just trying to have it all make sense, lol.
I know that feeling. I have such a long list and it’s stressing me out! I can’t decide whether to do the April NaNo or the July I just desperately want to finish my novel and know I won’t without the pressure of NaNo or similar!
Syd sat up in bed. That sound? Again. Like a twig snapping in the woods. She grabbed her fuzzy plaid robe and slid each foot into frayed slippers. Downstairs she felt the coolness of the night. The front door was open and another twig snapped. Her father was sitting on the front porch in his work clothes; his legs swung over the planks. A branch that had fallen from the backyard pine earlier that spring was draped over his lap. Snap. He broke off a smaller limb. Snap. Snap. He broke it in half and half again.
โDad. What are doing home? Why arenโt you at work?โ
Snap. โTurned fifty last month, you know.โ
โI know, Dad.โ Syd had returned home after college to figure out what to do next. Her Dad worked graveyards at the machining plant. A good job to have in the hard times of a small town.
Snap. โShift manager says he canโt afford to pay health insurance on an older worker.โ
โDad, thatโs discrimination.โ
โI snapped. I punched him. Grounds for instant termination.โ
TanGental says
ok a haiku that will also form part of Ronovan’s prompt https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-34-beastday/
It snapped; the beast froze.
A predator or a prey?
Not the rabbit’s day.
Sacha Black says
Made my shitty day so much better – no one’s ever done one of my writespirations… ๐ will post with a link to yours saturday ๐ Thank you xx
TanGental says
*grins at wall*
Rachel says
Haiku time — because that’s the only poetry I’m decent at! ๐
It snapped very loud.
No one knows where it came from.
Everybody run!
Thanks for the prompt! I hope it was good. ๐
Sacha Black says
Amazing thank you Rachel, I am so glad you posted I will post this with a link to your site on my next one (Saturday). Do you know, I don’t actually know how to write a Haiku! are there rules? or is it just three lines?
Rachel says
Haikus are typically three lines–the first line has five syllables, the second line has seven syllables, and the third line has five syllables. So, 5-7-5.
It’s kind of “easy.” The tricky part is just trying to have it all make sense, lol.
Sacha Black says
I need to save this somewhere so I can attempt one ๐
Rachel says
The great thing about it is you could probably write a bunch of Haikus together and create a story out of it.
Sacha Black says
Ooh that’s a well good idea ๐ im going to have to file that one away for a later challenge!
Rachel says
I’ve had it filed away for a while! ๐ There are so many things I want to write that I really need to get going on… lol.
Sacha Black says
I know that feeling. I have such a long list and it’s stressing me out! I can’t decide whether to do the April NaNo or the July I just desperately want to finish my novel and know I won’t without the pressure of NaNo or similar!
Rachel says
Go for April! If you don’t make it, there’s always July.
Sacha Black says
Eeeek don’t tempt me! I’m so weak and I’ll do it! I need to find ur NaNo profile! Will link up tonight ๐
Rachel says
Yay! I’m Fiery_Sapphire. ๐
Sacha Black says
I’m Nicadek I think – it’s under my actual name rather than pen name
Rachel says
I’ll have to look you up when I get home!
Charli Mills says
Fun! And I didn’t count my words. ๐
Snapped by Charli Mills
Syd sat up in bed. That sound? Again. Like a twig snapping in the woods. She grabbed her fuzzy plaid robe and slid each foot into frayed slippers. Downstairs she felt the coolness of the night. The front door was open and another twig snapped. Her father was sitting on the front porch in his work clothes; his legs swung over the planks. A branch that had fallen from the backyard pine earlier that spring was draped over his lap. Snap. He broke off a smaller limb. Snap. Snap. He broke it in half and half again.
โDad. What are doing home? Why arenโt you at work?โ
Snap. โTurned fifty last month, you know.โ
โI know, Dad.โ Syd had returned home after college to figure out what to do next. Her Dad worked graveyards at the machining plant. A good job to have in the hard times of a small town.
Snap. โShift manager says he canโt afford to pay health insurance on an older worker.โ
โDad, thatโs discrimination.โ
โI snapped. I punched him. Grounds for instant termination.โ
Charli Mills says
Okay, so I fudge on the rules…forgot “it” and didn’t start with it spapped, although you can add it to my first line and it would make sense! ๐
Sacha Black says
Hahaha I never liked rules anyway! ? thank you for participating – I am 35 words into your turquoise challenge – will finish on my lunch break ??
Sacha Black says
Hahahaha I LOVE this. What a brilliant ending made me laugh OUT loud in the middle of the office! Oops better put my phone down! Hehe
Charli Mills says
Walk away from the phone…:-) I knew I spied a fellow rule-breaker!