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House of Haiku Prompt / Untold Stories
Decapitated
a haiku
A bodiless head
abandoned against a tree
a story untold
When I walk my dog, I often see strange tableaus that reek of mystery. These untold stories whip my imagination. Why? How? Who? When?
I will never know the backstories but I can make up my own. Isn't that what writers do — take a scene, a remembrance, or an overheard conversation and marinate it in imagination until a story emerges?
What about your untold stories?
Now accepting haiku, tanka, and monoku poems about untold stories.
Below you will find another example of a haiku and descriptions of the proper forms and subjects for the poetry that House of Haiku accepts.
A Walking Garden
A garden growing
atop a shell in motion
nature’s surprises
© Dennett 2021
Haikus are poems traditionally about nature in the syllable and line form of 5/7/5.
Tankas are poems about intangible subjects in the syllable and line form of 5/7/5/7/7.
Monokus are one-line poems with no more than 17 syllables.
Please use the syllable counters provided in the Submission Guidelines, before submitting a draft, to confirm that your syllable counts adhere to the proper forms detailed above.
