Category Archives: Haiku

August 5, 2018

Autumn – Stanza 5

By Kat Myrman

around the time when separatists sought freedom
from the crown, a ship, the Mayflower, set sail
across the ocean blue, amongst its passengers,
a girl named Mary, of renown, so claimed,
the first to step on Plymouth’s rocky shore

~kat

For Jane Dougherty’s Daily Stanza Challenge.

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August 1, 2018

Meet – A Haiku

By Kat Myrman

For Haiku Horizon’s Poetry Challenge inspired by the word, “meet”.

because cruel fate
did thrust love’s blade off its mark
never did we meet

~kat

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July 27, 2018

Brain Cleanse – A Haiku

By Kat Myrman

in these trying times
immerse in things beautiful…
zen for gray matter

~kat

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge Prompt Words: brain (gray matter) & cleanse (immerse).

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July 27, 2018

Palatial Field

By Kat Myrman

queen anne tended by
fair-haired ladies in waiting,
bright, black-eyed susans

~kat

Haiku Horizons Prompt Word: Eye

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July 20, 2018

Woke

By Kat Myrman

to survive in life
the crazy ups and the downs
it helps to be woke

~kat

For Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge, prompt words, woke & up.

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