This was was written for Read Write Poem Prompt #31 – Write a poem where you are being told a story. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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mama
said, your
grandpa died fighting Continue reading
Category Archives: Hay(na)ku
It Wasn’t Like Him
This was also written off of prompt #9 on Scott Wood’s journal – begin a poem with “It wasn’t like him” as the first line. Here’s what I came up with – another chained hay(na)ku. (Am I working those chained hay(na)kus lately or what?) Anyway, enjoy.
-Nicole
It
wasn’t like
him at all
to
cry, to
shed one tear Continue reading
The Worst Advice That I Have Ever Received
This poem comes from prompt #9 on Scott Wood’s journal – “Write a poem about the worst advice you ever got”. This is the result – a chained hay(na)ku about some bad advice my aunt (yes, the notorious one, for those who know) gave me in high school. Implied and unspoken advice, no less. Anyway, enjoy.
-Nicole
The
worst advice
I ever received
was
to let
the man make
the
first move;
in other words, Continue reading
Desert
I wrote a second poem for this last week’s Read Write Poem Prompt (which was to take a poem in one form and rewrite it in another form). I took “Arizona, Remembered”, originally written as three stanzas of rhyme royal, and turned it into a Hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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God’s
paintbrush danced
in Arizona’s desert -
sand
was a
pale peach canvas Continue reading
Iraq
This is a poem for this week’s Read Write Poem prompt. This week the prompt was to take a poem written in one form and rewrite it in another. I chose “Katie, Bar The Kitchen Door”, originally a Chaucerian roundel, and rewrote it as a hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Iraq
is calling;
will he return?
Grandmother
sheds tears
when he goes;
he
will come
back with scars.
Written 6/2/08
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