Vital, yet fleeting,
the setting sun leaves my view,
lighting another’s.
© Copyright 2020—Present, Jenise Cook, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Published: 6 July 2022, Spillwords Press
Published: 4 November 2020, on Twitter @jenisecook
Image credit: Jenise Cook on Pixabay.com
(Buckeye Regional Park, Arizona, March 2017)
The Story Behind the Haiku
In my online writers community, Scribophile, there’s a fun thread for creating new haiku verses. The members write a verse, then another member adds a new verse using the last line of the previous haiku as the first line of the new haiku.
You’ve read my entry in the thread.
There’s friendly competition among us. I tend to write a verse quickly, to get a verse posted before someone else beats me to it. Why? Not all last lines in a verse make a good first line.
Just like mine here. I sort of felt sorry for the next person. Can you imagine writing a new haiku verse that begins with “Lighting another’s…”? Ha!
Your Turn
What are your thoughts? Let me know in the Comments. Maybe you’ll write a haiku verse for us?
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