POETRY PIE HAIKU 2025

 

       For the third year, my cousin, Lorrie Tom, has issued a Haiku writing challenge to friends and family.  Haiku are fun because they are short, encourage you to really consider your words, and help you to look around and NOTICE!  This year prompts are coming over weekends and we can follow the prompt or write about what we see.  I inevitably end up writing more than one haiku a day with the prompt and then add more random haikus!  I am going to include the prompts when appropriate.  

Writing Prompt #1

Go outside and sit.  Line #1 - the space; #2 - something in the space; #3 - main idea

WRITING PROMPT #2:

Snap a photograph with your phone (or find one on your camera roll, framed in your home, or from a magazine or book). Write a haiku about the image. 

Writing Prompt #3

Take a walk. Write about what you see or hear.

Writing Prompt #4

Your haiku should communicate a feeling through the image you’re describing. Even though this isn’t easy, a trick for doing this is to NOT use a word that tells the feeling (i.e. lonely or angry), but SHOW what that looks like, sounds like, or feels like.

Writing Prompt #5 

It’s a full moon tonight. Look outside. Write a haiku about the moon in the present tense. I love knowing that we all share the same moon. If it gets too late or the weather isn’t cooperating in your neck of the woods, don’t let that stop you from writing about your night sky. There’s always something to write about.

The picture I took was too fuzzy, so I drew over it!

Writing Prompt #6 

Write a haiku with a seasonal word: a word associated with weather, actual season's name, activities or a place associated with that season, nature.

And a couple from Palm Sunday worship....

Writing Prompt #7

Write a haiku that breaks the rules. Revel in the rebellion of it all.

1. Add a title.

2. Put an asterisk (*) next to a word that needs more explanation or context. Write an explanation below your haiku.

3. Play with punctuation. I love using commas, colons, and dashes to highlight pauses in my haiku.

Confession:  I forgot to take the picture as the sun rose, so while it IS my neighbor's skyline, the sun ray image is an internet one!)

Writing Prompt #8

Write a haiku without worrying about seventeen syllables. When you finish writing it, read it aloud. If you can do it in one breath, yeah. If not, tweak it a bit.

For this haiku, it might be fun to write in a public place (like waiting in line at Starbucks or Trader Joe’s) or during a family gathering.

and apparently, I DID worry about syllables!

Writing Prompt #9  4.20.25 (Happy Easter)

Find something that surprises you about this day. Write a haiku about it.