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.
βDad. What are doing home? Why arenβt you at work?β
Snap. βTurned fifty last month, you know.β
βI know, Dad.β 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. βShift manager says he canβt afford to pay health insurance on an older worker.β
βDad, thatβs discrimination.β
βI snapped. I punched him. Grounds for instant termination.β
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.
Made my shitty day so much better – no one’s ever done one of my writespirations… π will post with a link to yours saturday π Thank you xx
*grins at wall*
Haiku time — because that’s the only poetry I’m decent at! π
It snapped very loud.
No one knows where it came from.
Everybody run!
Thanks for the prompt! I hope it was good. π
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 need to save this somewhere so I can attempt one π
The great thing about it is you could probably write a bunch of Haikus together and create a story out of it.
Ooh that’s a well good idea π im going to have to file that one away for a later challenge!
I’ve had it filed away for a while! π There are so many things I want to write that I really need to get going on… 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!
Go for April! If you don’t make it, there’s always July.
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 π
Yay! I’m Fiery_Sapphire. π
I’m Nicadek I think – it’s under my actual name rather than pen name
I’ll have to look you up when I get home!
Fun! And I didn’t count my words. π
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.
βDad. What are doing home? Why arenβt you at work?β
Snap. βTurned fifty last month, you know.β
βI know, Dad.β 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. βShift manager says he canβt afford to pay health insurance on an older worker.β
βDad, thatβs discrimination.β
βI snapped. I punched him. Grounds for instant termination.β
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! π
Hahaha I never liked rules anyway! ? thank you for participating – I am 35 words into your turquoise challenge – will finish on my lunch break ??
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
Walk away from the phone…:-) I knew I spied a fellow rule-breaker!