(Challenge: write a haiku about "Liberty") Liberty=3 syllables
Freely pursuing
Happiness thanks to soldiers'
Red blood paid for me
Fighting to protect
Rights of our fathers and moms
Now youth needs to know
Promised Land of God
Protected by His wide arm
Peaceful if we love
I see the flag wave
Heart swells with passion and love
Protect the promised
Fireworks remind
Smoke and guns and battle cry
Death then party now
Celebrate the flag
Count your blessings one by one
Cheer for liberty
I shall call this land
"This Land" and make it special
Dear above all else
Flagpole defiant
Lofty banner raised higher
Stretched for all to see
Your turn.
4 comments:
Consequences
Come free with liberty
Choose joy not misery
Celebrating
Independence alone
In Dominica
Freedom
Doesn't exist
Without choice
In 1973, the Haiku Society of America noted that the then norm for writers of haiku in English was to use 17 syllables, but they also noted a trend toward shorter haiku.[12] This trend is borne out by the winter 2010 edition of Frogpond, which contains haiku with an average of 10.5 syllables, varying from six at the shortest to 15 at the longest.
Some translators of Japanese poetry have noted that about 12 syllables in English approximates the duration of 17 Japanese on.
--Wikipedia.
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