Mindful Poetry Contest: April 25, 2012

I will say this about the Haibun. It is deceptive. It contains prose poetry and haiku. You think it can't be hard to write prose poetry, why that's just like writing prose!Â No...one of the hallmarks of prose poetry is this from baymoon: Internal rhyme and alliteration and repetition can be used. Some such trait of poetry must be present. Otherwise it is prose, not a prose poem.

And when it comes to haiku, we have these words from Atticus *: The essence of the poem should blossom in the mind of the reader, not on the page.

With those two dictums, let us sally forth!

If you are new to this group or contest, go here to learn more and then come back to participate in today's challenge.Â

Follow these rules:

Today's prompt is a theme: surreal or fantasy or fairy taleÂ
Publish so that the date stamped is AprilÂ 25th with only one stamp-date
Tag with MP2012
Publish to Mindful Poetry and The Surreal Circus - yes, you'll have to join it (and other groups as you wish)

Read today's submissions by others and comment. Here's the link.

Yesterday we receivedÂ 14 decuainÂ submissions to the Mindful Poetry Contest. This was a fantastically difficult choice today. Here is the Poem-of-the-Day.

Good luck! Have fun! Read and comment on other contestants here.

Comments: 13

Mustafa Demiri Apr 25, 2012, 12:51am UTC

I am very eager to see
all of the haibun poetry,
that your prompt will inspire,
in all the poets, I so admire.

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Janet "Jax" B. Apr 25, 2012, 1:44am UTC

Um...after following all the links and reading about haibun...I don't think I get it.

Irina Dimitric Apr 25, 2012, 2:39am UTC

Neither do I, Janet. I'm giving it a miss.

Susan Budig - Mindful Poet Apr 25, 2012, 9:41am UTC

So sorry to hear this, Irina.

Jax, briefly, a haibun is prose poetry and then a haiku. You can write one of each or more. You don't have to have an equal number of each form in the poem. And the prose informs the haiku.