Friday, August 4, 2017

Haiku #11 {Poetry Friday}





liquid sunshine
burst from the sky in July
drip drop raining


I missed last week because I was on vacation but the first line has been sticking with me every since.  The rain doesn't really show up in this picture very well but I was eating breakfast on the deck pondering some words shared with me on my walk that morning.  I passed two older gentlemen on my morning walk.  We were walking in a morning drizzle, a bit of a drip drop format.  He smiled at me and said, "it's just liquid sunshine."  It totally changed my mindset and I began thinking about all the good that comes from a good rainfall.  Earlier this summer I was sticking tightly to a 5-7-5 syllable format.  Thanks to you, poetry friends I've branched out a bit to 4-7-4 pattern.  I do like the first and third line to have the same syllables.  It may not matter but it feels right to me.

Thank you Donna at Mainly Write for hosting Poetry Friday this week.

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8 comments:

  1. Liquid sunshine is such a wonderful term for rain, Mandy. Thanks for sharing that.

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  2. not only lovely in thought....but a happy sound too. Nicely presented! Thank you.

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  3. Another great example of how a shift in perspective can totally alter our experience. I also love the term liquid sunshine and enjoyed hearing how it inspired your haiku. Well done!

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  4. You have created your own form -- I think you should name it!

    We've had an Ark's Plenty of liquid sunshine this summer, haven't we?!?!

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  5. I love that you're keeping up with these, Mandy, and feel as if you received a wonderful gift with that "liquid sunshine." We have quite a bit of "drip drop raining," too. Lovely poem.

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  6. A lovely thought, happily captured in your poem. You have a joyful spirit in your poetry.

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  7. I need to keep telling myself this during our six-to-eight month rainy season. ;-)

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  8. I still cannot ever bring myself to do anything but a 5-7-5 count. It never feels right to me. I'm a rule keeper and a rule breaker, but for some reason a Haiku is never a real Haiku to me unless it is 5-7-5! But that is definitely "my problem"!!
    My fav part: "from the sky in July" - love the rhyme and rhythm of it.

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