Hi, friends
Last week’s prompt brought in some much-needed whackiness and humor, as well as the usual intensity in the Exploration Challenge.
So far, we’ve never had restrictions on length or format of the piece. I’m adding a rider, just for this week.
PROMPT

You could write a story or an anecdote with a haiku as part of it. A Haibun or Alternating verse and poetry, of course works.
I collected some Gyan from the Shadow Poetry website http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/haiku/haiku.html
Definition of
Haiku
1) An unrhymed Japanese poem recording the essence of a moment. Nature is combined
with human nature. It usually consists of three lines of 5/7/5 (5 kana in the
first line, 7 kana in the second line, and 5 kana in the third line) totaling
seventeen kana.
2) A foreign adaptation of 1, usually written in three lines totalling 17 syllables
or LESS.
As you will notice, there are two definitions. Definition #1 is where many get
confused. People tend to confuse kana or a single unit in the Japanese language
with the English syllable.
This is like comparing apples to oranges. Kana cannot be compared to syllables.
Unless you are Japanese, have been writing Japanese, or speak fluent Japanese,
you will be writing definition #2.
The difference between the two is that in definition #2, you will be writing three lines of poetry, 17 syllables or
LESS.
This means you do not have to write three lines of 5/7/5 (5 syllables in the
first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and 5 syllables in the third line).
You may do so, if you can do it well without fluff words (many can’t). If you
write 5/7/5, that does not make your poem more of a haiku than someone who does
not write 5/7/5.
My Example
grey skies await
resplendent colors of dawn
-offending silver moon
FOR THE NEW ENTRANTS
Write a post on your blog, and link it up here with a pingback, or copy-paste the blog link in Comments. Tag it Reena’s Exploration Challenge for easy access in the Blog Roll.
I eagerly await your responses.
LAST WEEK’S ROUNDUP
Amit Agrawal (hecblogger) at
Jade Li at
Jen Goldie at
Sadje at
Michael at
Reena Saxena at
https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/miracle/
Bladud Fleas at
https://moonisrising.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/a-bit-of-bingo-related-poetry/
Len at
Eugenia at
VJ Knutson at
Deborah at awisewomansjourney
https://awisewomansjourney.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/more-than-numbers-double-reverse-fibonacci/
Vividly seen through tarnished eyes.
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Thanks, Violet!
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Here it is. I knew I wrote it. https://tessacandoit.com/2019/05/30/reenas-exploration-challenge-89/
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Great! You found it 🙂
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I knew I did, just didn’t know where it went.
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I know I wrote something for this, but not sure where it went.
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Hope you have a Search button somewhere 🙂
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Yes I do a lot of searching. All my prompts are set up to look for if need be. I copy them from week to week so I don’t have to set it up each week.
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Thanks!
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The Road To Serenity – Haibun – https://awisewomansjourney.wordpress.com/2019/06/01/the-road-to-serenity-haibun/
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Thanks for the contribution!
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Reblogged this on BrewNSpew.
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Much appreciated!
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🙂
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Looks like I’m early, here’s my addition to the prompt
https://starlightandmoonbeamsdotblog.wordpress.com/2019/05/30/a-lullaby-for-reenas-exploration-challenge-89-may-30-2019/
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You are not 😀 Thanks for joining in!
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Good. I guess I’m just earlier than I usually am LOL Thanks Reena 😊
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Thanks!
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Lovely!!
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Thanks!
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Thanks for the education on haiku, Reena! Here’s mine – https://iwriteher.com/2019/05/30/deluge/
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In my limited experience with micropoetry, I found the highest number of versions in haiku – from classical haiku to Ronovan’s freku. I stumbled upon this in further research and shared it.
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Thanks for joining in!
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Will do!
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Thank you Reena 🙂
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Look forward 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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