April 10 Napowrimo prompt: Today’s prompt (optional, as always) is another one from the archives, first suggested to us by long-time Na/GloPoWriMo participant Vince Gotera. It’s the hay(na)ku). Created by the poet Eileen Tabios and named by Vince, the hay(na)ku is a variant on the haiku. A hay(na)ku consists of a three-line stanza, where the first line has one word, the second line has two words, and the third line has three words. You can write just one, or chain several together into a longer poem. For example, you could write a hay(na)ku sonnet, like the one that Vince himself wrote back during NaPoWriMo 2012!
So, some hay(na)ku sonnets:
Silverware Drawer
Spoons
plain forks
the rattly knife
Curves
simple sans-serifs
all size spoons
We
emptied out
all the extras
I
washed out
the metal tray
Now it’s perfect
Spacious silverware drawer
***
Coronaworld Problems
First
it interrupted
online divorce support
Then
it ruined
ladies’ Zoom dance
Almost
made me
quit online contra
Zoom
was broken
microphone kaput, crashing
Social life over
Then: restart computer!
***
Porch Moment
Above
it all
in my hammock
Elbow
banged up
knee bruised, swollen
Walkers
stroll by
with dogs, babies
Telephones
at ears
one-sided conversations overheard
Bluejay swoops past
Blue sky embraces
***
Questions
Basic
things I
still don’t understand
How
people decide
how to behave
Who
is asking
all the questions
When
this virus
will release us
How we make
the world better/right
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