To write a Haiku, a crude Haiku (Japanese Haiku are somewhat different since the language's "syllables" are not the same), just write a little non-rhyming poem of three lines with the following syllable pattern: 5 - 7 - 5.
Does the atheist
brain beat to a different
drum, heart arrested?
(
getting a little quick practice in at some people's expense . . . sorry! Just musing! "Heart" here is a heart for God.)A Cinquain is similar, that it follows a syllable count, but it is longer. It should convey a single thought, but not be a list. The syllable count is: 2, 4, 6, 8, 2. You can break the rules a bit - it's OK.
My example has too many syllables in the first line, but that's OK. Just have fun.Zakery
controls zombies,
scatters them with bombs, guns,
sings of donuts as bodies fly;
my son.
These are just some examples of short poems you can do. Feel free to write in other styles, and I'll probably post more later about some other short styles. Any of you can do that too, of course!
