Belief

Haiku/Tanka Prompt “Unfurl” Oct. 23, 2019 in House of Haiku

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Words coiled tightly on

my lips blossoming into

world shattering noise.

PROMPT: Write a haiku/tanka using the prompt word “unfurl”.

Author’s note.

I am mostly new to the world of poetry in general, and haiku in particular. I dabbled as an angst filled teen during my high school years way back in the 80s. I played with free verse as an angst filled single mom in the early 90s and in the second half of that decade, wrote angst filled lyrics for the band I was in.

I experimented but couldn’t quite get a grip on American or Western Haiku as taught by Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind. I had a lot going on in the 90s. Too much to concentrate on writing.

I always believed that poetry wasn’t real without angst. I always believed poetry and poets were cheesy.

I am so happy that my belief, my safe little world, has been shattered by my own words.

I am a poet.