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 Shimanchu-American and award-winning poet, author, and publisher with 20+ years of experience as a professional writer in nonfiction. Publisher of Space & Time magazine (est. 1966), producer of the Exercise Your Writes YouTube podcast, two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner, and HWA Mentor of the Year for 2020. She shares a weekly calendar of author opportunities at authortunities.substack.com.

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