Haiku Challenge

For round eight of the Haiku Challenge I'm using a photo from a very talented blogger friend. His photo link isn't working right now, but I'll link to it as soon as it's back up.

As always, thank you for visiting and sharing your gift! I will post all haiku in a new post on Thursday.

Using only the picture below for your inspiration, post your haiku in the comments by Wednesday, December 13, at 8:00 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.