Haiku Poetry Day (by sarah)
Moth guide bright, globe that glows -
through to slivered nothing,
Lunar is your name
The Young Adult Reading Group who meet in Waterstones Gloucester sometimes at the same time as my monthly poetry events asked me if I'd written poetry lately as it was Haiku Poetry Day - I hadn't because I have been too wrapped up in my emotions to write anything creative unless it is about my dad and then I tend to get over emotional and have been unable to finish a single piece.
But part of dad's legacy is my writing so I have been trying with novels and comic books and poetry but mainly just staring blankly.
I managed to write this - it is not a Haiku in the way Europeans understand Haikus and it certainly is not a Japanese Haiku but I love Japanese poetry and am obsessed with the moon at the moment so I tried to make something that bit into that essence of existence.
It is slightly different to the tweet version I sent were I wrote Lunars as I think it works better this way.
If you want to know more about the poetry form of Haiku I would suggest you start with wikipedia and then go on from there!
The date of the newly discovered (by me) poetry day is the 17th of April so I am hoping to catch it a little better and more prepared next year.
Thu 25th Apr 2019 7:22 am 
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