Poetry Pie Writing Challenge: Saturday

Everything you need for Saturday, 4/5/25

Tip #2

Haiku include a descriptive image. This means writing about a real moment (not something from your imagination) that describes what you see, feel, hear, touch and/or smell.¹ For your haiku, focus on a single moment.

Writing Prompt #2

We’ve all heard the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words.” When writing haiku, a picture is worth at least seventeen syllables (5+7+5=17) because the image can help us fit our ideas into a tiny poem. Let photographs help you tell some of your haiku story.

Snap a photograph with your phone (or find one on your camera roll, framed in your home, or from a magazine or book). Write a haiku about the image. (You can include the image when you share in the chat, but that’s optional.)

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See ya over in the chat OR in the comments below this newsletter. Here’s a link to resources if you need it. Happy haiku writing.

Always writing haiku,

1. If I recall correctly, some of our challenge participants might be writing haiku about literature and/or characters from books! Please pave your own haiku way and go for it! Be creative with the form and make it something new if that’s what works for you.