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Haiku for a Windy Day

Abigail M. Parker

Willows blown sideways
Like kelp in a strong current.
Wind is air's riptide.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on April 10, 2023

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Scheme ABB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 74
Words 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
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Abigail M. Parker

Longtime writer of everything from novels to screenplays to musicals to poetry; my current project is the blog "A Haiku Each Day," which, as you can imagine, features one haiku for each day of the year. (That's 6,205 syllables.) I can't always limit it to one a day, though, which leaves me plenty to post here! more…

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