Young Writers Society

mother relives it
the memories of the glee
sheltered in her heart

sheltered in her heart
burns the dreams of her childhood:
hope for the future

hope for the future
expands like ice in street cracks
shattering concrete

shattering concrete
with sprouting dandelions:
beauty in harshness

beauty in harshness
mirrors cloudy from above heat
scratching on paper

Scratching on paper
My mind probing ideas
I just need some time

Hey @ForeverYoung299, great poem! ^-^

The point of this thread is to do an endless chain of haikus, though, which have a very specific format. They are three lines that go:

Five syllables
Seven syllables
Five syllables

So an example from above:

shattering concrete
with sprouting dandelions:
beauty in harshness

If you break it up by syllables (I'm going to put each syllable in [brackets]) you'll see:

[shat] [ter] [ing] [con] [crete]
[with] [sprout] [ing] [dan] [de] [li] [ons]:
[beau] [ty] [in] [harsh] [ness]

See how there are distinctly 5 syllables in the first line, then 7 in the second, and 5 in the third? I find https://syllablecounter.net/ to be suuuuuper helpful when I'm writing haikus so maybe it'll help you too! ^^

@ShadowVyper please re-read. Is it okay now?? I wasn't aware of that rule.

@ForeverYoung299 that's perfect!!! Thanks for editing, that's a really nice haiku ^-^

I just need some time
to process my emotions
and feel whole again

i want to feel whole -
i don't know how to unlearn
being a pie chart.

Being a pie chart
hung on the cream kitchen wall,
watching a bake-off.

watching a bake-off;
more than the too-sweet cupcakes,
I crave happiness

I crave happiness,
becoming unaware of
the generous trees.

the generous trees
can't really be called that as
they give oxygen