HOUSE OF HAIKU PROMPT: PHANTOM
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.
Let’s have some fun writing together!
On this day, in 2023, Broadway’s longest-running musical, ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, closed after an astonishing 35 years and 13,981 performances.
So, our Prompt for this week is: PHANTOM…
He felt like a ghost,
Invisible, everywhere,
Unseen and unheard…
Four friends… One big secret…
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Phantom forest; trees
crowned, birds ascended; now black
stumps where mushrooms grow.
Veiled schemes in shadows
Voiceless souls lost—disappeared
Justice hangs by threads