Find a poem. It's as easy as stepping through the threshold into nature. Take a notebook, a pen, all of your senses, and an open heart. Perhaps you'll see a family of ducks in a pond. Think of the connection to your own life. Write one or two lines about what you sensed and one or two lines about how it made you feel. And you have a haiku.
after its mother,
the smallest duckling follows--
a fading ripple
I felt a sense of sadness that the duckling might not have the strength to continue to keep up with the rest of its family as just a weak echo. So I described the scene and then tried to add a line about the feeling, without naming it.
It's easy to try it yourself. Please post your own haiku poems here.
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