June 26, 2019

Hi-Q: branches bare

branches bare
to summer’s heat
a life complete

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Somewhere there is a rule that haiku shouldn’t rhyme. I broke it.

It is one rule I return to breaking from time to time. Maybe it’s from coming to poetry via songwriting. Or maybe it’s because I like the way rhymes read.

Or maybe it’s because I can’t break the school-ingrained Western obsession with rhyming verse.