HOUSE OF HAIKU PROMPT: LAUNCH
Welcome to the ‘House of Haiku’, where the challenge is to create something inspired by the Prompt below using only 17 syllables, laid out in three lines, containing five, seven, and five syllables respectively.
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On this day, in 1968, director Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, was screened for the first time, at a launch event in Washington, D.C.
So, our Prompt for this week is: LAUNCH…
Ten-second countdown,
Must feel like a lifetime, when,
Waiting to take-off…
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First drop hits my face—
desert sky finally breaks,
we launch into joy.
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Butterfly emerges,
Wings still damp from chrysalis—
First flight awaits her.
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Spring buds crack open,
Green fingers stretch toward the sky—
Earth's silent whisper.
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Salmon leaps upstream,
Against current, toward birthplace—
Life's circle complete.
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for Chris J. Franklin
Author of
HOUSE OF HAIKU
Launching into Spring
I soar, I fly, nature sings
Death has lost its sting.