The other night at Refresh Rhyme Scheme's Poetry Night at Sandrini's I was talking to my friend, Coryn McBride, about writing practices, artistic practices and the like.
One of my favorite ways to "warm up" or practice is to use the sacred art form of haiku. I am not a haiku traditionalist, although I have studied the art to a certain extent... I just love the freedom of expression within its seventeen syllable container.
I have been having such fun with my new camera, snapping shots of everything everywhere that I kind of put two-and-two together and thought, "What if we wrote a haiku a day?" and then "Well, sometimes people get stuck in not knowing what to write about... so, what then?"
So I thought, "witness the moment in a photo..." so here I am, with a photo and a haiku I just breathed in and out... and an invitation to try it out for yourself.
Simply look at the photo and then write a three line haiku - the first line is five syllables, the second is seven syllables and the third line is five syllables... seventeen syllables... or about the length of an inhale and an exhale.
Ready to write? I'll post the photo inspiration:
Reflections open
The heart of humanity
You feel what I feel
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