||151||: Melanin • Haiku v

Photo by Mike Jones

Your skin is divine,

Your form, majestic and strong,

Every inch and hue.

||150||: Tea Snatcher • Haiku iv

Photo by Tara Winstead

I stole their tea bags,

I traded dishonesty,

For dandelions.

||149||: Meditation • 2 Haiku’s iii

Photo by Monstera

Meditation

𝙹𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚌𝚒𝚛𝚌𝚕𝚎,

𝚠𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛,

𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚝 𝚊 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎.

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𝙳𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑 – 𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚜 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍,

𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍,

𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜.

||148||: Christmas in O’ahu • Haiku ii

Photo by Jess Loiterton

𝙸𝚝’𝚜 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚎,

𝙾𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚖𝚊𝚜,

𝚆𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚗, 𝚂𝚞𝚗 𝚔𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚗.

||147||: December • Haiku i

Photo by Ryutaro Tsukata

2 December 2021
I haven’t written here in awhile, and so I’ve been thinking that just even a few lines on a page will do. Everyday in December I will post a haiku, so you’ll see 2 posts today, this introduction, and another making up for the 1st of December

To refresh and inform, What is a Haiku?

The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third (Britannica, 2021).

So It’s 5, 7, and 5, gotcha. This is the format, however let the words flow and remember don’t let the numbers restrict you, there are other patterns and modern haiku’s.

The term haiku is derived from the first element of the word haikai (a humorous form of renga, or linked-verse poem) and the second element of the word hokku (Britannica, 2021).

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𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚘 𝙳𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛,

𝙰 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚏𝚞𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛,

𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝙸 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚖𝚢 𝚐𝚒𝚏𝚝𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚞?

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Source:

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “haiku”. Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Feb. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/art/haiku. Accessed 2 December 2021.