
Water
Showers down
Falls upon stone
Flowing over time
Leaves marks
Erodes
Leaf
Adds contrast
Color and beauty
God’s fine artistry
Well placed
Details
© Carol Campbell 2015
Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie and BP Shadorma and Beyond.
The Prompt:
“Hello World, this is Bastet presenting another poetic form.
As you can see by our title, the form I’m presenting is called ‘The Hay(na)ku‘ and it’s a fairly recently created form (2003) by poet Eileen Tabios (born 1960) an award-winning Filipino-American poet and writer well known for her prose poetry. The Hay(na)ku has become pretty well-known in poetic circles (The name “hay(na)ku” was coined by Vince Gotera).
With a name like hay(na)ku, we know that we’re into micro-poetry and this is just about as micro as you can get! It’s a tercet with just 6 words – line one is one word, line two – two words and line three – three words. That’s it. There’s no syllable count or rhyming requirements etc.
However there are variations – for example a reverse hay(na)ku which has lines of three, two, and one word(s) for lines one, two, and three respectively or … if one so desires one can write a chained hay(na) ku for a longer poem and Ms. Tabios’ has created a variation, the “haybun,” which combines a single hay(na)ku tercet with prose.”~Georgia
❤ ❤ ❤
Years
Each different
Colours radiate life
Memories stay indelible
Lessons learned
Tutorial
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Yes!! Great Hay(na)ku! You should join some prompt sites!
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a beautiful poem. every line is perfect
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Had you heard of this form? I sure hadn’t! Thank you!
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no I hadn’t. I love what you did with it; you showed it who’s boss!
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Lol. I’m liking these prompts! 🙂
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and we have poetic proof of that 😉
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🙂
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Artistry naturally evolved which only a talented poet can rightly see! And you’ve seen it here Carol!
Hank
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Thank you for a very nice comment!
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You’ve created such a beautiful image Carol with your hay(na)ku … sublime! Thanks for giving the hay(na)ku a whirl and linking up! Huge hugs!
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Thank you!
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Very welcome indeed!
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you detail the two primary objects separately yet in parallel, the leaf and the water stream, but bring them back together in quite an harmonious whole. well done
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Thanks!
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