Tag: poetry

Haiku poems

This is for the first time I’ve tried writing a haiku poem(s)!
Although it’s a genre focusing on limited verses with intensified, direct expression; it’s also one of the hardest since it includes expressing yourself in concise form.

Haiku (俳句) is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. It consists of three phrases written in a syllable pattern of 5, 7, 5. It has a cutting-word at end of each line and a word with a season’s reference. In English and in other languages, haiku have their own styles but they do incorporate aspects of the traditional haiku form.

A haiku poem depicts a clear expression, but my style definitely tends to lean towards writing with hidden meaning and symbolism.

Do comment if you liked them or if any specific one catches your eye!

#1. Rainbow

Haiku #1 – Rainbow

#2. Inked Paper

Haiku #2 – Inked Paper

#3. Spring

Haiku #3 – Spring

#4. Haiku

Haiku #4 – Haiku

#5. Moon

Haiku #5 – Moon

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Compose your own haiku poetry and post them in comments!

A Tragic Loss – a poem

A Tragic Loss – a poem

In this poetry, it is attempted to depict a parent’s terrible loss of his young child.

The poem begins with woes & despair befallen the poet. It sets the theme of a huge tragedy that might’ve struck him. Next, it is stated how the laughter and cries will be missed. The silence of a room is to symbolise the loss of a person.

In third stanza, the poet cries of how he’d never get to see his child grow. But also hopes to meet him/her again and he’d get to fulfill his wishes after his days have passed. The fourth stanza portrays the pain being felt by the poet while bidding final goodbye to his child. He says that his child’s body is like all his dreams he had for the child – all shattered and lifeless.

In the last two stanzas, the poet concludes that the pain of losing one’s child never leaves a parent. No loss or grief in this world could be greater than losing one’s own child.

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Many a poetic devices and figures of speech are used in this poem. For e.g. :

  • Line 8: room given quality of being silenced (personification), loss of a person symbolised through silenced room.
  • Lines 3 – 4: rhetorical questions to emphasize how difficult the living has become.
  • Lines 19 – 20: indirect association of eyes and tears, although used in different contexts (tears to never dry & eyes as seeing the burial).

Can you find more of such devices?

Also, do comment below on what you think of the poem…