NaPoWriMo Day 10: Nine hay(na)ku poems

Hi, I’m doing NaPoWriMo on napowrimo.net. The challenge is to write a poem a day in April. For Day 10, I had a go at the hay(na)ku and wrote nine. It’s the first time I’ve heard of this form – I think I might be hooked :)

This is the prompt for the April 10 poem:

Created by the poet Eileen Tabios, the hay(na)ku is a variant on the haiku. A hay(na)ku consists of a three-line stanza, where the first line has one word, the second line has two and the third line has three. You can write just one or chain several together into a longer poem. 

1

We

Sleep in

Pockets of dreams,

Wake

Between stanzas,

Yawn our disjoint

Departing

The platform

Of fantastic things.

2

Silver

Stars slumber

Under day’s blanket.

Silencing

The moon,

The sun glares

Until
Nature’s boomerang
Resurrects the night.

3

We

Run ragged,

Chasing our tails

In

Circles of

Our own creation,

Searching

For answers,

But already found.

4

Tree

Of peridot

Stones tied down

Too

Early to

The Earth plane

Stretches

Branches up,

Clenches roots down.

5

Weedy

Seadragon drifts,

Little fins twirling.

Purple

Neon shimmer,

Long pipe searching.

Twisting,

Slow dance

Betwixt swirling seaweeds.

6

Blackbirds

Call in

The morning – notes

Rippling,

Soaring free

On the air.

Red

Robin lets

Loose warbling riposte.

7

Time

Stalls, flickering,

The movie stuck.

Film

Unravels, stasis,

A life unlived.

Actors

Cast silent
Have no words.

8

Cat

Rocks bottom

Chasing brown rat,

Sniffs

It out,

Delivers crushing blow.

Arranges

It neatly,

Blood pooling gently.

9

Guitar

Wakes us,

Wee-eee-eee!

930am!

Birds silenced.

Zen moment disperses.

Player

Halts. Instrument

Stuck up ass.

Copyright Vickie Johnstone, April 10, 2020