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: Tight & Warm.
“Blanket”
Longing for spring’s warmth
Tree fairy hugs the blanket,
Tight against cold fear.
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“Careful”
Sword hilt tight in hand
Warm blood runs down to the grass,
Painful accident.
© 2016 E. E. Rawls and Rawls E. Fantasy
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How to read a haiku as 2 separate sentences:
Longing for spring’s warmth, Tree fairy hugs the blanket.
Tree fairy hugs the blanket, Tight against cold fear.
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Wonderful. Sigh. 🙂
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Thank youuu 😀
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You are welcome. 🙂
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Ooh, I really enjoyed these! I went through wakas, tankas, and haikus in my literature class pretty recently! I had to write a few, too, though I’m afraid I’m not at all very good at them. 😛 Very nice, these ones!
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Thank you so much, Natasha! I admit I didn’t know much about haikus until I joined the challenge last year. They take some getting used to to write. 🙂 I haven’t tried wakas or tankas. Are they similar to haikus?
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Yeah, I only just properly learned about them a couple of weeks ago. 😛 And yes, they are. The waka is the Japanese long poem, with alternating lines of five and seven. The tanka came after that, with a pattern of 5-7-5-7-7. The haiku is a more recent developments, which took the 5-7-5 from the tanka.
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The Japanese long poem sounds like more of a challenge. About how long are they? I might try one sometime. Have you posted any of the ones you’ve written?
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Oh, no, I’ve never tried a waka! I’ve written a tanka, though, maybe two. No, I haven’t. I don’t think they’re anywhere near good enough for that. And my curriculum didn’t give a particular length, just the alternating lines of five and seven syllables. I think it’s as long as you like, but don’t quote me on that.
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One of these weeks we should write some for #BlogBattle. 😀
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Well, if you’ll do it, I’ll do it! Mine probably won’t be very good, but I’ll try! 😛
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Yes! Let’s do a spring-themed waka for April! Maybe April 5th?
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Okay, I’ll try! 😀
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Yay!
I hope it doesn’t snow while we’re writing about spring, lol. I keep hearing rumors of coming snow storms *ugh*
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o.o Snow? I haven’t heard about any snow coming! But then I live in Maryland, so that might explain it.
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Wahhh?! You haven’t been hit by those depressing snow storms yet? Hmm, maybe I should move…
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Nope, sure haven’t! It’s colder than it had been, but I think it was at least in the fifties yesterday!
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waaaaaah, so jealous! Snow just welted away today, but I hear more weather mess is coming! Noooooooooo~
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Ah, yeah! It’s been getting colder around home. But I’ve gone to visit some friends farther north, and it snowed last night, so there’s some over here too.
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Snow struck there too, now? This spring is becoming quite a snowtastropy.
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Haha, right? Our snow was brief, though. It followed us down south for a few flurries, then disappeared. It’s still cold here, but it’s not snowing. 😄
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I can identify with the first one. I too am waiting for spring’s warmth. And the second makes me wince – the last line kind of twists it from an image of a battle to, well, what it says, an accident. Is it the holder of the sword that’s hurt though, or someone else? Wonderful. 🙂
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It just snowed today, making spring feel further and further away *sigh*. It is a scary question: did the accident happen to the wielder or someone else? I’m not sure which I’d rather it be… Thanks for reading. 🙂
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We’ve had hail here. Not very spring-like. I join you in that *sigh*.
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Hail is destructive! How bad was it?
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Not that bad, and I was inside at the time, so escaped the worst. It’s now decided to rain non-stop. Where is my spring?
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I’m with Phoenix on the first haiku; I know how the tree fairy feels. Hopefully she’ll feel warmer soon enough.
That second one, though. Ooof. Are you sure it was an accident? Because it sounds pretty painful… 😉
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That poor tree fairy just endured another day of snow today *Brrrr!* Spring, where art thou?
Oooh, I’d hope it wasn’t on purpose. Then again, you never know. 😉
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Hey, next week is supposed to be fairly warm for the most part! So maybe the tree fairy will feel warm enough to fly? 🙂
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The tree fairy was warmer than sunshine and happier than a bumbling bee today! 😀 70 degrees, ohhhh yeahhhh! (if only it’d last through the weekend…)
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I know!!! Wasn’t it gorgeous on Wednesday? I made sure to take my lunch break walk outside. It felt like spring. 🙂 And I bet the tree fairy was elated!
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Yes, the tree fairy is elated. 😉 This weekend was nice too! But a friend came up from Virginia telling me how hot it already is there, and I can’t help but feel jealous. 😀
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