Day Five of my epic haiku-writing challenge | Prose & Poetry

I Promise To Use It

Would You Give Me a Challenge?

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She told us a story about going to dinner at a boyfriend’s house where they spoke in haiku.

Effortlessly, as easily as you might pass the salad.

Comfortably, with humor and deft art, they invited her to join them.

Aspiring poet and filmmaker her joined in, awkwardly at first, but soon finding poems rippling from her lips.

Who would have known meeting someone’s parents could be so much fun?

She confided she was stunned to be talking about this man’s extraordinary family years after she and the man were through.

Haiku can be like that.

Funny, serious, or shockingly evocative of places you’ve never been, situations you pray you will never face.

Now, a writing instructor, she challenged me to write a haiku every day for thirty days.

It’s day five and I’m still going.

I don’t wake up with the daily haiku yammering in my head, but they always arrive.

While I scrawl morning pages, I remember I must write a haiku.