1
early
i wake to
soft rain
2
at dawn
tomorrow
i leave
3
tears fall
loves failure
to hold
4
empty
heart broken
anguish
5
feeling
gentle touch
warm kiss
6
sunrise
lifts me up
feeds me
7
soft breeze
hummingbird
hovers
8
your love
caresses
my soul
Not like a Haiku or Senryu,
Paiku or Miku;
New form 'ZIKET' born, two lines with
thirteen syllables.
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Poetic form : Ziket
Dr. Zik is the inventor of Zikorean English literature.
The Theme of the poem is to show the importance, signs and historical occurrence of our life.
This poem is related to the short poetic form Ziket.
It shows a Ziket’s color throughout the reading as:
1. A Ziket consists of two poetic lines.
2. The first line has 1 to 8 syllables
3. The second line has 1 to 5 syllables
4. The longest Ziket has a total of 13 syllables.
e.g. Walt Whitman’s https://bit.ly/3lfwTtX
Remember
your deep husky voice
until now.
~*~
Hint to participants of my latest haiku contest; no capital letters, only used for proper nouns, please read contest rules.
the static sun
it does not transverse our sky
planet earth rotates
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the moon... not static
in synchronous rotation
orbits planet earth
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time lapse photo shoots
of the stars show circles
cause... earth rotating
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in the moonlight...
the owl hunts by sound alone...
yet it is not blind...
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in the dark of night...
the bat screams detecting food...
natural sonar
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ABBREVIATED HAIKU also known as MIKU
hunting prey...
food for survival
feeding babes
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