Saturday, February 27, 2021

MIXING PROMPTS TO INSPIRE HAIKU

Day 24 Prompt – MIXING PROMPTS TO INSPIRE HAIKU

National Haiku Writing Month is almost over. A variety of prompts have challenged us to work with our words. Some challenges were technical; others were topical. Anyone looking for a more intense challenge can combine prompts. That’s right! We can write haiku using two or more prompts at the same time.

Easing ourselves into this challenge, we can add a topical challenge to a technical one. Looking back over the month, it would not be too difficult to write haiku that incorporates multiple senses that includes only words that contain at least 4 letters each. A six word haiku can be a found poem. Another, more challenging, approach might be to alliterate an entire poem created using a haiku written by someone else as a template. Not all prompts are compatible, and cannot be combined, but many are.

How many ways can techniques and topics, found here, be combined?

1 comment:

  1. Wow. Mixing writing prompts IS challenging Cheryl! I will definitely have to try that!

    Thank you so much for the opportunity to participate in National Haiku Writing Month, (which I previously didnt know existed)!

    I looked forward to writing my haikus (most) days and I’m sad that the month is over.

    ReplyDelete