Our task for this week at MMLM’s Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille: Try to describe reality as you are experience it in your life. This way of writing haiku is called “shasei”, it’s invented by Masaoka Shiki, one of the four greatest haiku poets ever and the haiku poet who brought haiku into the 20th century.
Love is fickle and
fleeting and vain — but your lust
will never leave you.
did you see the Moon
early this morning?
ripe and luscious and ready
to burst — remember
when I was
just like Her?
This Cherita was written for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
but I failed to read the guidelines carefully. This should have been written in Tanka, Haiku, Senryu, Haibun, Etheree or Cinquain poetry forms. Ooops! Here’s mine anyway:
Calixta bewitched her men
as they dreamt, making them
burn and ache with desire;
craving her touch, her warmth.
They gave their honor for Calixta —
and were soon discarded like all the rest.
.
No man
was enough to
satisfy Loretta,
and then she found the woman of
her dreams.
If you have to make
someone fall in love with you…
I call that cheating.
Ergo, the Ogre 