I had a really fun idea. Let’s make a collection of haiku about ritual abuse, mind control, and healing. Especially healing!
You can put your haiku in the comments section and every so often I will collect them and make a new post with all of them. Then you can add still more in the comments section. When we get 1,000, (or maybe a little earlier) we can think of publishing them. At that point, we can ask for 1,000 illustrations. Whoohoo, what a book that would be!
The traditional haiku has no title. It has 17 syllables, consisting of:
A line of 5 syllables
A line of 7 syllables
A final line of 5 syllables
The lines don’t have to rhyme, but they can if you want.
Variations on the length of lines, the total number of syllables, and even the number of lines are acceptable. Some of these variations carry different names in Japanese. It’s not important to know those names — it’s just important to know that you don’t have to be rigid about it.
Many haiku refer to nature and are concrete, conjuring up sights, sounds, or smells. There often is a change of point of view in the middle of the poem.
I’ll get us started.
Sunlight on my face.
Quick! Help! Where am I today?
My blanket meows.
P.S. Riffing off my 6/10/14 poem:
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I have lost my words
I am smokey fire
Laughing like a mad hatter
In a world of lies
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I scream out my name
Floating backwards through mirrors
I have lost myself
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Welcome home Malice!
Uncle sam will punish me
Enraged in this cage
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I sorrow no more
Mind slips sideways, I’m breathless
Scratching at my knees
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Thank you! First for searching and finding the entry, and also for your poems. Tome, they both stand alone and follow each other. I hope you will poke around my other poetry pages.
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Hi, thought I`d have a go.
Spinning in our head,
Getting lost within the storms
Locked within your wrath
by Jade
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http://www.polyvore.com/monarch_memory/set?id=129217706
the “love” swing harness
clitoral electric shock
butterfly girl flight
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Check out the polyvore link. It is stunning, powerful, and heart-breaking.
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Terror consumes me
window opens, wind blows in
Tiny scream is heard
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I love the last line!!!
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You took me away
There is no me left, only we
We continue the fight.
(Elle)
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We ran in the dark
To find a way to feel
Freedom in the light
A
This *is* fun!
Jean
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Fun idea Jeannie
Torn shattered broken
Found hands, arms and hearts of love
There is a place for me
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oops… found
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Cool. But is it Founds or Found?
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Count your lucky stars
In your eyes we don’t exist
Hidden in plain view
By A
(another one of us)
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I hope there are many more haiku’s and you’s to come
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Here goes…very 1st attempt at Haiku
Fighting to survive
Alone together as one
Freedom will be found.
from Elle
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Wowee! May you write many more…
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great idea!
here is my haiku:
Hey, reclaim your mind!
You know it is possible.
You are your owner!
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It’s really true, isn’t it? Some days it doesn’t seem so. but it’s true.
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