haiku suite - the city
Poetry Contest
Writing Prompt
Please write THREE separate city haiku, each consisting of seventeen syllables or less, and each written in three lines. That's a total of NINE lines, split into three haiku.
1) written in present tense
2) title must read, 'haiku suite (1st line of the FIRST haiku)'
3) only TWO words in EACH haiku may start with the same letter ('as/and/the' don't count) (you may use for example two words with the same letter and two other words with the same letter)
4) no punctuation except for proper nouns or hyphenated words
5) two lines of inter-connected and grammatically flowing imagery (written as ONE sentence over two lines), plus a satori line ('ah-ha' moment). Satori may be 1st or 3rd line
6) Personification is welcome but not necessary
7) each haiku must be in 'short/long/short' format, with the middle line having more syllables than each of the other two - '5-7-5, 4-6-4, 3-5-4' as examples. Each haiku may have a different syllable count
8) NO artwork or sound effects allowed
9) NO 'author notes' allowed
10) NO 'gerunds' ('ing'-ending words) allowed
11) NO end line rhymes
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