My haikus for RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Challenge–a fun activity and contest that is open for everyone to participate, and helps keep our creative writer’s mind active! This week’s words are: Pen & Muse.
“Gone”
The old oak muses
What once was but now is lost,
Heart an empty cage
~
“For Whom The Bell Tolls”
Pen in hand, steady,
Grim Reaper muses his book,
Checking the names twice.
© 2015 Rawls E. Fantasy Newsletter
How to read a haiku:
The old oak muses What once was, but now is lost.
What once was, but now is lost, Heart an empty cage.
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I like the first one the best, I think. It’s mournful. But beautiful. The second made me smile. I wonder what would happen if someone stole the grim reaper’s book?
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Thank you so much. And that’s an interesting idea, Phoenixgrey! Someone should try stealing that book. 🙂
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It would take someone brave *looks around for anyone but her*
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Haha, but with a name like phoenixgrey you must be a stealthy person, right? You can do it. 😀
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Hmmm… perhaps if I could run really fast to get away… no. I think I’ll wait fr a stealthy AND brave soul to come along. 🙂
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Haha! But a phoenix can’t die, it is reborn from the ashes, which makes you the perfect person for the job. 😉
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I’m not getting out of this am I?
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Heeheehee. 😀
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*just looks*
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The second poem is like the opposite of Santa Claus checking his own list. *shudders* Chilling to think that the Grim Reaper would do that for his own work!
And awwww, the poor oak tree misses its leaves. (Is that close to what you meant for the first haiku?)
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“You better watch ouuut, better not cryyy~” Haha, a very creepy Santa that’d be! XD
I was picturing the oak as an ever-present being who has over time watched the land and people around It change. But it can have more than one meaning, and that’s sort of why I wrote it that way. Haikus can have many meanings. 🙂
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Exactly. Haikus (and poetry in general) is open to all kinds of interpretation. That’s part of its beauty. 🙂
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Ooh! The second one is so creepy! I love it! Good ones. 😉
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It is creepy! 😀 I’m glad you liked it, Vashti. 🙂 Spooky haikus to end the month of October.
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