Day 13 – Experiement with Word Count

A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression….the focus on a brief moment in time; a use of provocative, colorful images; an ability to be read in one breath; and a sense of sudden enlightenment and illumination.

– Academy of American Poets

He sits on a branch

The bough ready to break free

Of his deception

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The trees give cover

As alms for humanity

But Justice will rain

To reap sewn calamity
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Cold and merciless

Inauthentic hearts puff hard

The Land knows the truth

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Freedom is not free

Pledged with a soulful payment

A serfs life for me

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Connect with the land

Fleeting, the world will not stand

Keep your heart beating