It sits to the south
Home to a thick constant mist
Weaving through the trees
All who step inside
Must stay on the winding path
That can slip away
Mist licks at the edge
Hungering for a lost mind
Coiling like a snake
When a man steps wrong
His memories are no more
Absorbed by the mist
Where do these thoughts go?
When borrowed for briefest time
Returned when one leaves
Several heroes
Have sought to cure the forest
Each one has returned
Their minds hold no keys
No knowledge of their journey
Or how they escaped
Mysterious woods
That few care to wander through
None will ever find
The woman sleeping on stone
Her misty mind seeking help
This is the haiku sequence. Let me know how it flows and if it works. I wasn’t sure about how many stanzas to use.
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Nice work. The flow does feel a little stop/start at times but that doesn’t mean that the structure doesn’t work… definitely worth persevering with.
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Thanks. It’s a set of haikus, which are typically small, 3 line poems. I couldn’t find a way to make a perfect flow from one stanza to the next. I tried rhyming the last line of one to the first line of the next stanza, but combining that with a syllable limit made that maddening.
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Love this Charles! It reads like a mini novel! 🙂
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Thank you. I’m happy that this experiment is getting such praise.
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This is great my friend… never seen one quite like that… would love to see more of this! 😉
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Thanks. I made up the style and call in Haiku Sequence. It’s basically a set of haikus ending on whatever a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern would be. I was calling it a super haiku, but I think it has a real name.
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I thought that the flow worked and conveyed the message quite well. I enjoyed it. 🙂
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Thank you. So far it seems my experimental poem is a success.
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This may actually be an agreeable way of doing flash fiction 🙂
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Never thought of that. Great suggestion.
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Like this alot, the rhythm has a kind of musical quality to it…this might sound odd, but almost jazz like. Anyway, it’s a great poem and an intresting structure! 🙂
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Thank you. Maybe I’ll use it a few more times and see how long a sequence I can make.
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