Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

A path at my feet

Led to wider horizons

One step at a time

For the past few years I have been writing a haiku every day, published as day and night meld, with the #midnighthaiku hashtag. I always use the English form of 5-7-5 syllables, but do not, I have to admit, always conform to all the other ‘rules’ laid down for this form.

(Wikipedia has all the details for anyone wishing to explore writing haiku ‘correctly’).

For me, this is a daily writing exercise, approached in one of two ways. I either write the poem first, then find an image to illustrate some aspect of the poem, often symbolically, or I pull up a random image or two from my photo files, and write to that. I give myself no more than five minutes to complete the post. It is often the first thing I write and…