How do you reduce
a seventy-page plus tale
into a haiku?
You cheat a little
and write multiple haiku
and hope that’s okay.
Girl without father
Father without direction
Reconciled or lost?
What can we learn here?
Answers are harder to find
with silent questions.
Oh, and one more thing.
I like to insert some swans
whenever I can.
The Children of Lir
don’t have answers, but they know
the questions to ask.
Is it a haiku
if you keep on writing them
continually?
Haiku on haiku
On and on repeatedly
A haiku-ception.
Sometimes, we make our own rules.
It’s kind of like a renga, except only one person writes it. I did the same thing for a poetry class and my teacher seemed to like it. And then I lost the file for it. I am sad.