207. Tiny Poems for Tiny People
dear reader, have you ever written a haiku?
Dear reader,
In today’s post, we play the game of tiny people. Here are the rules for this month’s contest:
🤳🏼 Pick a tiny person (below)
🌎 Place that tiny person in your world, and
🎱 Tell their tiny story in the form of a haiku.
❤️ Read and heart the tiny poems posted by others.
🙌🏽 *BONUS* Build a haiku chain. Take the last line of someone’s haiku and make it the first line of your reply.
Haiku: a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. (poets.org)
The SneakyArt Post is a publication of
secretly drawn art,
ink scratches on paper, from
a journey of life.
If you know someone who likes poetry, share this post with them!
✍🏼 Why haiku?
If you write anything at all, it is a good idea to also write poetry. Poetry imposes constraints on how you say what you want to say. Impositions such as rhyme, meter, and syllable count can compel you to give up your choice of phrase, to sacrifice even the most favourite words.
When the prose of your mind filters itself to become verse, your new words show you new ways of thinking about the same old things.
These are the constraints for writing haiku, written as a haiku -
🎱 Three lines without rhyme
🎱 The count reads 5 | 7 | 5
🎱 Vivid images.
[2nd row, far right]
“How did it happen?”
She asked, even though she knew.
Dark eyes, glittering.
Add your tiny poem in the comments!
[2nd to last row, far right]
Her fingers twitching
She waited for coffee to
Dispel morning fog.
Add your tiny poem in the comments!
Best entries will win original drawings and signed prints in their mail!
📚 This Sunday, I shared with Insiders the list of books I have read this year and asked what I should read next.
🎙 The new episode of the SneakyArt Podcast features a hilarious and insightful conversation with NY-based cartoonist and comedian
.🔐 Earlier this month, I shared the concept of the panopticon of social media. With Substack, I am trying to break out of this prison.
Dear reader, thank you for your time and attention. See you in the comments section!
Nishant, I just want to share that I wrote 10 haikus for my husband's last birthday. They were delivered via text message once every hour. I was working and could only send the prepared haikus. No other communication happened between us for hours. He loved the unique gift with references to him and our 30-plus year relationship in the messages.
('Florist', 4th row)
With tiny fingers
he arranges little blooms.
A gift of beauty.