Greetings! I've missed the last few challenges, so I'm glad to be back...even if it's to side-eye the confusing mashup that is the haiku sonnet. (No one does side-eye quite like the Highland "coo." Although the one below was a bull. A very friendly fellow.) 
The form is defined by four three-line haikus, and an ending couplet, for a total of the sonnet's traditional fourteen lines. Sounds straightforward enough, but could two things be more opposite? Haiku doesn't use a rhyme scheme, celebrates brevity and images, and is rarely narrative. Sonnets have a myriad of rhyme schemes, and while not epic, are much longer, and written in iambic pentameter or other meter. I suppose they do have imagery in common, so I decided to focus on that, drawing on memories of my recent trip to Scotland.
The form is defined by four three-line haikus, and an ending couplet, for a total of the sonnet's traditional fourteen lines. Sounds straightforward enough, but could two things be more opposite? Haiku doesn't use a rhyme scheme, celebrates brevity and images, and is rarely narrative. Sonnets have a myriad of rhyme schemes, and while not epic, are much longer, and written in iambic pentameter or other meter. I suppose they do have imagery in common, so I decided to focus on that, drawing on memories of my recent trip to Scotland.
Lichen fuzz beards rocks,their caved cheeks sharp underfootwe dodge, dip and twistBlack slugs share the trailwhile we talk of unicorns,not white, but mist-greyFords laid yesterdayare now rain-swallowed crossingswe must haul new stonesA roofless sheltersinking in gathering cloudsbirths reedy saplingsWe pause for tomato soup,hot and red, it is our sun.----Sara Lewis Holmes (all rights reserved)
You can find my Poetry Sisters' haiku sonnets here:
Laura
Poetry Friday is hosted today by Mona Voekel.
