Because my creativity well has gone a bit dry, I decided to sign up for WordPress’s Writing 201 course again. It’s a poetry course, and I had so much fun with the last one that I couldn’t resist doing it again.
Today’s post calls for a haiku on screens. I wrote so many haiku at one point that I even began to think in the form, but with this challenge, I’ve had a little more trouble. Screens are everywhere, but they really don’t get my poetic motor running, so I decided to try something a little bit different. This haiku sequence is brought to you by the vision of a dressing screen that flashed into my head as I tried to get to sleep last night. I hope you’ll enjoy it. 🙂
Separated from
Each other by naught but a
Screen, the two lovers
Poured out their hearts, full
Of longing, to the dark night.
So close, and yet so
Far away, the screen
Might have been a wall, thick and
Impermeable
As stone and mortar
Against the cries of the two
Lovers’ broken hearts.
What do you think about when you think of screens? Do you think of computers and cell phones and TV, or do you think of something a little more old-fashioned?
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Nice, Kay.
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Thanks! This one was tricky, but I rather like how it turned out. 🙂
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Screens didn’t trigger my creative juices either.
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Thank goodness I thought of those old privacy screens, or I don’t know what I’d have done! There are some really pretty ones out there. 🙂
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I caved and did mine on something else.
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Sometimes it’s all you can do. 🙂
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Wow…I like the perspective. Never thought of brick and mortar that way. Thank you for the post.
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Thanks! Glad you liked it. I do love a good love story, especially one in verse… 🙂
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Great to see some of your poetry. It’s been a while.
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It has, hasn’t it? I’ve been in the mood to write more of it lately, but I’ve been lacking in inspiration. Blogging U. to the rescue! 🙂
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That’s the spirit – get writing.
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Aye aye, sir! 🙂
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I enjoyed reading your poem. I’m new to poetry, is it a special technique the way you linked the haiku together, it creates a strong flow; sorry I don’t know how to decribe well what i mean.
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Yay! I love poetry, and have since I was a kid. How can you not love Shel Silverstein? This challenge is a great way to flex my poetic muscles. How are you liking it so far?
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I thought of window screens :p
I enjoyed the poem!
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So did I, but I couldn’t figure out what to say about them (though the dead flies clinging to mine like leaves on a tree did seem like a seasonally-appropriate way to go…). 🙂
Glad you liked it! 🙂
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Lol! All of ours have holes and need repaired…
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Our windows leak air horribly. All lasy winter, I’d find flies stuck to the screen between it and the window. I don’t know exactly how they got in, but I hope they won’t come back this year.
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