A brief sentence here
to say nothing but the fact
that these words are brief
Words that sound so wise
but in the end say little
are poetry’s thief
I just love a phrase
Follow where it leads me to
perhaps just a dream
So what strikes you now
as truth, may not always be
quite what it may seem
(c) Helen Valentina 2013, All Rights Reserved
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“Poetry’s Thief…” Love it. Sounds like a story in its own… I have NEVER written a haiku. I get the 5-7-5 thing. Are there are set number of stanzas you need? I’m itching to try it.
I’m no expert on haiku – I think the original form is very strict and I don’t really know its full rules…you can certainly just do one stanza and its a stand alone haiku…I just tend to write more than one when I do the form for some reason, but for all I know that might be actually breaking the rules too!! 🙂 🙂
Thanks Helen…. I’m all for breaking the rules. Need to play around with some Haikus. I used to belong to a site where I wrote “10-Word” stories…. Those were fun. I have a quite a few of them here on my blog.
Yes, I really love your ten word stories, they are very clever! 🙂
Thanks Helen. 🙂
Never thought of haikus that way. They’re usually my go-to form when I want to write a poem and have only a minute or two.
Haikus are great…it’s probably just me that sometimes writes things without knowing what it all means, LOL. 🙂 🙂
We have to know what we’re writing about? I must have missed that memo. 😉
Cool, glad it’s not just me then!!! 🙂 🙂
So nice!
Thank you!! 🙂 🙂
lol….I do love to write haiku….those little thieves. I usually write them when I have something on my heart but not enough strength in my spirit to write a whole poem.
I love haiku too….I just know that sometimes, with all poetry forms really, I start out with some vague words or ideas and even I don’t know what the poem is about.. if anything, LOL. 🙂 🙂
lol….Your poems always makes such great sense to me….uh oh….now I am worried!! 🙂 🙂
LOL…I find sometimes that when I write thinking of something specific readers actually see something quite different in what I wrote than what I intended, and sometimes when its just words that sound good to me the readers kind of tell me what it’s about by their reactions…creativity is a mysterious process. xxx 🙂
Bravo! I love it. 🙂
Thanks so much!! 🙂
My favorite thing about haiku is that is teaches you just how potent a single word can be, there is nothing in excess,you strip everything down so its all soul no flesh, a good haiku should convey everything a full length poem contains because its so concentrated in form it should be like a slap in the face, an awakening. I have never wrote such a haiku but that is why keep writing them I want to shake someone to their foundations in the fewest possible words. When I write I choose every word very carefully aside from the sound all the meanings have to work for me too, I am totally obsessed with extracting the most I can out of words lol I wish I was more creative though!
LOL, your haiku are sublime and closer to the intended form than mine ever will be! I doubt I really have the discipline to do haiku properly so I shall continue with my faux-haiku suspect!! 🙂 🙂
I don’t really know all the rules for the original form I think a haiku cannot even be written in English in the strictest sense
I like that you did several haiku’s together. I will have to try that sometime. As always…lovely!
Thank you!!! 🙂
amazing! well done woman
Thank you so much!! 🙂 🙂