Haiku Prompt
Life Stirs at Dawn
27th May 2020 Haiku/Tanka prompt “rise”
Golden sun rises Cold night fades to memory Life stirs on warmed earth
Over the last few days, here in Longreach, Queensland, we’ve been having some of the coldest May temperatures for many years. Certainly quite a contrast to the heat of recent weeks!
Despite the cold, Deborah Christensen and I, along with our little dog Lilly, have been taking a long walk early every morning, just as the sun rises.
As we walk, birds, large and small, begin calling and singing. Flocks of white cockatoos and pink galahs swoop across the sunrise, crying raucously to each other.
Huge grasshoppers and delicate butterflies flit from bush to bush.
Tiny lizards emerge to catch the first warming rays of the new sun.
It’s an invigorating time of day! You can see and hear and feel life emerging from the dark, cold night.
Like the other creatures we share this world with, we welcome the dawn and the warmth it brings.
PROMPT: Write a haiku or tanka using the prompt word “rise” (or a derivative).
About Haiku and Tanka
A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry totalling 17 syllables (in the English language) which are usually arranged in three lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables.
It often references the natural world and more modern forms of haiku can also reference human nature.
A tanka is composed of 31 syllables in five lines (5, 7, 5, 7, 7).
It can be written in a series addressing the same subject matter.
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