From Britney's blog:
Today's challenge involves poetry. Wait! Don't run away! (I almost did). It'll be fun. I promise. Poetry is a great way to stretch your writing skills. Just give it a try.
1. Grab a dictionary.
2. Randomly open up to a page and point at a word.
3. Repeat steps 1 & 2 two more times.
4. Take your 3 words and use them to create a haiku.
...For the purpose of this challenge, we're just using the most basic rules of a haiku: 3 lines. Line one has 5 syllables. Line two has seven. Line three has 5.
Pulling words at random from a dictionary and writing poetry? Scary. But it did turn out to be fun. The three words I randomly pointed my finger at were:
Mosaic – a picture made of small, usually colored pieces of
inlaid stone, glass
Node – the part of a
stem from which a leaf begins to grow, a connection or intersection
Intractable – hard to manage, unruly, stubborn
Here's what I came up with (hopefully I did this right):
Intractable clouds.
God’s mosaic, predawn sky,
A node to heaven
I liked the idea of unruly clouds at dawn serving as God's mosaic in the sky and the connection between earth and heaven. This challenge was a good stretch for me! What are your thoughts? Have you ever written haiku? No? Join October Madness and write one today :)
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Fun challenge! :D
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Well done.
ReplyDeleteWow! You got lucky :) I'm about to go do this and I'm a bit scared {Why did I choose this challenge?}
ReplyDeleteLucky indeed! And I promise I didn't cheat. At first, I wasn't sure about "node" but it worked perfectly. Thanks, everyone! And thanks, Britney, for the challenge.
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