Haiku Challenge

Haiku Challenge number six will yet again be a little different this week just to spice things up a bit. Instead of picking a winner, I will post all haikus from the comments of this post in a new post on Thursday. Everyone wins!

Using only the picture below for your inspiration, post your haiku in the comments by Wednesday, November 29, at 5:00 pm Eastern.


If you're new to Haiku read on...
Haiku is a poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture. Haiku combines form, content, and language in a meaningful, yet compact form. Haiku poets, which you will soon be, write about everyday things. Many themes include nature, feelings, or experiences. Usually they use simple words and grammar. The most common form for Haiku is three short lines. The first line usually contains five (5) syllables, the second line seven (7) syllables, and the third line contains five (5) syllables. Haiku doesn't rhyme. A Haiku must "paint" a mental image in the reader's mind. This is the challenge of Haiku - to put the poem's meaning and imagery in the reader's mind in only 17 syllables over just three (3) lines of poetry!


Read more about Haiku on Wikepedia.