Pain of life one leads,
Does not wither but exceeds.
Given winds of change,
My mind turns and twists, derange.
Torn ‘tween will and want,
What is it I can’t, I don’t?
Cowed by maddened, dim lit eyes,
Failure I despise.
I yearn arms embrace,
But fate voids every trace.
Feelings remain deep,
I spurn my foe, night thief sleep.
To the sun promise may rise,
Reason for these tear filled eyes.
~*~
My love is a lump,
A cause for heart’s gasps for breath,
Consumes all my thoughts.
Hello everyone. Today I’m introducing something I believe is new. A normal poem followed by a Haiku that sums up the poem. I am calling this a Freku at this time. Write a normal poem, if you wish, followed by a Haiku that sums up the poem. Free verse plus Haiku equals Freku.
Can you take a poem and then sum it up in three lines of Haiku? Or perhaps the other way around? Look for an article (NEW FORM of Haiku & Poetry) coming soon to explain in more detail but I think this section covers it.
For mine I attempted a 5-7-5-7 for the first stanza, repeat for the next two, but at the end I include two more 7-7. And to wrap it all up I created a Haiku that sums up the poem.
I wrote a normal poem first then worked it down to the 5-7-5-7 patterns. That was as a challenge to myself.
Ronovan Hester is an author, with his debut historical adventure novel Amber Wake: Gabriel Falling due out in December of 2015. He shares his life as an amnesiac and Chronic Pain sufferer through his blog RonovanWrites.WordPress.com. His love of poetry, authors and community through his online world has lead to a growing Weekly Haiku Challenge and the creation of a site dedicated to book reviews, interviews and author resources known as LitWorldInterviews.com.
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Ronovan what a masterpiece of a “normal poem”!! There is a hint of the great bard about this poem. From great anguish arises an optimistic future . Beautiful play with imagery
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What a fantastic idea and a lovely poem to illustrate it. Will attempt one but perhaps with the first part as a Tanka. Does it have to be a new poem or can we build a Haiku on an old poem?
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How would I know the difference? 🙂 Create and Enjoy.
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Yup, true. I must have written around 500 poems all in all so it would be difficult to know 😀
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My first haiku inspired by your prompts was written to sum up a free verse poem I had just written. I have posted it here before, but here it is again for for your enjoyment, Divergence @ https://intentionalinterplay.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/divergence/
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it’s a great poem, these two lines are especially striking both their sound and meaning: “To the sun promise may rise,
Reason for these tear filled eyes.”
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I like how syllable counting contributes to a poem, but this poem is WAY more than form. Congrats 🙂
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Hi Ronovan, I have no idea why my comment went anonymous– it was me. I did a freku attempt and am figuring out how to provide links to your various posts without pinging too much. My appologies if I fail.
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Oh, ping away. 😀
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Okay so here is my trial. It starts with an Alexandrin (12 syllables for every line) and then ends with the concluding Haiku.
https://geethaprodhom.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/broken-memories-my-staff/
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Cool idea!
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I gave the Freku a try. I kinda like this 🙂
https://thoughtsandentanglements.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/chance-2/
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[…] used the format he suggested. It was great fun. Click here to join in, everyone’s welcome […]
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Hey Ronovan. Remember when you sent me that Taylor Swift video? I can’t remember what I said that motivated you to do so, but I’m certain it was a musical kick in the pants from you. I wasn’t in a funk but probably said something self doubting. It was fun writing it in here and joining in on your Freku challenge.
Here’s my entry: http://thearanartisan.com/2015/12/08/musical-therapy/
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Very nicely done! 🙂
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Sounds similar to a Haibun, which is a prose poem followed by a (summary/closing?) haiku.
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Haibun is not confined to poetry in the narrative part of the piece. It can be prose entirely followed by the Haiku. But the idea is very similar.
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Well done Ronovan, I like your Freku! Quite the poet. 🙂
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Thank you. 🙂 It was an accident.
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