Hello, Haikuists!
What happens when you shrink your focus?
schoolchildren’s eyes find heart in a horse chestnut half a small fall treasure
In the Pocket
I love to write haiku about massive things like oceans, the sky, and mountains. The scale of our planet, let alone our universe, always leaves me awestruck. However, there is also a marvelous sense of wonder to be had by shrinking my poetic focus.
Lately, I’ve been paying attention to things small enough to fit in my pocket.
What happens when we observe the small things? To get into the full spirit of this, it’s helpful to channel your inner child. Fill your pockets with rocks, flowers, and leaves.
Take your treasures home, hold them in your hand, and stare at them one at a time until you see something that moves you to write about it.
See if you can find bits of the cosmos in the smallest objects around you.
Haiku Prompt
Write a haiku, or series of haiku about something small enough to fit in your pocket. Feel free to use the traditional 5-7-5 format, free-verse format, or any other format that feels comfortable to you.
Please share your haiku in the comments, this is always the highlight of my week!
In tomorrow’s newsletter, I will have another haiku comic about something pocket-sized, and in the member’s exclusive portion, I’ll be sharing how I’ve been using my notebook to shrink my focus and some experimental haiku note-taking techniques I’ve been tinkering with.
Be the poetry you want to see in the world!
Cheers,
Jason
three coins in my hand
heads and tails for yins and yangs
yeah I got spare change
Sent to the small ones a couple minutes ago - already got one haiku back!