Anti Haiku

Duck & Dash Poetry recently ran an Anti Haiku competition. The rules were simple:

• Maximum 5 entries per person
• Poets in WA only
• Anti Haiku must be the author’s original and unpublished work ONLY
• Work should be appropriate to share in a public forum
• Each Anti Haiku poem must be 1-6 lines long (including title and any spaces between lines)
• Each Anti Haiku poem must have a maximum of 40 total counts of both syllables and punctuations

Poet’s were encouraged to interpret haiku and anti haiku as they liked, picking and choosing which haiku aesthetics to keep or reject.

While I did not win, one of my entries was selected to be featured in Duck & Dash social media:

early morning head full of poetry cold coffee

This was written during the Haku Down Under conference which was held in the middle of winter last year. The conference was online and run from New Zealand, so I set my alarm to rise early each morning. I wrote it as one line, as it can be split in multiple ways and I wanted the reader to be able to play with the words.

The following image was created by Duck and Dash.