Braided Haiku

 Braided Haiku

hiding behind a half-clad moon

                       
the other hemisphere
sun-brightened
 
floating clouds the serrated edge
 
*
a half-clad moon
sun-brightened
the serrated edge

*

hiding behind

the other hemisphere

floating clouds

Credit: Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective 28 May 2023 (Ed. Eric Lohman)

 

origami memories a twist-folded rose

 

I gently unloop

plait by plait her long hair

 

the flow contours the wind

 

*

origami memories

plait by plait her long hair

contours the wind

*

a twist-folded rose

I gently unloop

the flow

Credit: Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, 11 June 2023

Author’s Note: The ‘Braided Haiku’ is a form experimented by me during July 2021. Editor, Eric A. Lohman, Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, is kind enough to inspire me with valuable suggestions. There are two monoku: one at the top and one at the bottom having a two-liner in between. In all, the braided haiku frames out to be, two three-line haiku: one in italicized & the other in plain text and two monoku out of a 4-line micropoem. The form is titled ‘Braided Haiku’  as three plaits are required to braid or weave. Here we have 2-number of three plaits (one in italicized and the other in plain text) to compose two stand-alone 3-line haiku.