Since I learned so many new ideas about the many facets of haiku, I’ve been exploring the ideas and scribbling down different patterns. I don’t have anything worth writing home about yet, but here are the directions my thoughts are going.

I also signed up with the NaHaiWriMo group on Facebook, where they have daily haiku prompts. Today’s prompt is “filter.” Here’s my response:

My filter is gone—
incinerated in the apocalypse you gave me.
Beware of the returns.

Yesterday’s prompt was “image,” and the inspiration for the first stanza of this trio.

By Angela Yuriko Smith

Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Ryukyuan-American, award-winning poet, author, and publisher with 20+ years in newspapers. Publisher of Space & Time magazine (est. 1966), two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner, and HWA Mentor of the Year, she shares Authortunities, a free weekly calendar of author opportunities at authortunities.substack.com.

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