This week’s theme for Colleen’s poetry challenge is a haiku written by Sue Vincent:
clouds cover the moon, beyond dawn's pale horizon sun rises unseen ©2020 Sue Vincent
The idea is to use Sue’s haiku as inspiration for your own syllabic poetry. Remember, in this challenge we can use any of the following poetry forms: Haiku, Senryu, Haiga, Tanka, Gogyohka, Renga, Solo-Renga, Haibun, Tanka Prose, Cinquain, and its variations, Etheree, Nonet, and Shadorma
The current standards for creating Haiku in English suggest a form with three lines and syllables of 3/5/3 (11 syllables). Even the more abbreviated haiku version with three lines and syllables of 2/3/2 (7 syllables) is now thought of more favorably than the traditional 5/7/5 format. Hybrid haiku are written with seventeen-syllables in one or more lines.
Most haiku are written about nature, the seasons, a beautiful moment in nature, an emotional experience while in nature, or change. A haiku should share a special moment of awareness with the reader.
mist meets earth shrouding streets in gloom foggy night by Marsha Ingrao 2020
Revival of Colleen Chesebro’s Writer’s Quote Wednesday Writer’s Challenge
Colleen Chesebro invited me to reinstate the #WQWWC challenge she used to host with her blogger friend, Ronovan. They eventually chose to focus on poetry and so she opened it up to me to take up the challenge.
#WQWWC will start this Wednesday, December 2nd. Stay tuned for the first theme.
Blog Challenge Interview Series
Do you host or participate in blog challenges? It’s a lot of work. The enjoyment I get from blogging is to promote other hobby bloggers. So if you want to write a guest post or have an interview about the Challenge experience, please contact me. I’d love to feature you and your challenge on Always Write.
Story Chat
A BRAND NEW service to promote hobby bloggers is Story Chat. Your unpublished short story premieres on Always Write. My readers have a chance to chat about the story with you and their friends over a cup of coffee or glass of wine in front of a fire. Later, I will compile all of our thoughts into a summary post giving your story an encore.
Your comments and conversations are the best part of the day. I look forward to hearing from you. 🙂
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
4 responses to “#Haiku: “Melancholy Autumn””
You are always so creative, Marsha! Wishing you a lovely Sunday.
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Thank you Leya. Happy Sunday to you, too.
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When did the syllable counts change? I am a fan of the 5/7/5 format. Writing in a 2/3/2 structure sure says a lot about being concise.
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That is a good question for Colleen. She is a haiku expert. I am a neophyte. I made a mistake on my count in the one that I used as my featured picture. I like the way it sounds better, but it has too many syllables. Sometimes, when I’m counting, I look at number of words and forget that one word has two syllables. Do you ever do that?
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