Napowrimo Prompt 10The sounds of Freedom

Today’s featured participant is Mexcessive, where the concrete poem for Day Nine opens doors (or maybe closes them?).

Our poetry resource for the day is From the Fishouse, an online archive of audio recordings of emerging poets. Maybe add some poetry to your daily listening (it’s more relaxing than the news – usually!)

Today’s prompt (optional, as always) is another one from the archives, first suggested to us by long-time Na/GloPoWriMo participant Vince Gotera. It’s the hay(na)ku). Created by the poet Eileen Tabios and named by Vince, the hay(na)ku is a variant on the haiku. A hay(na)ku consists of a three-line stanza, where the first line has one word, the second line has two words, and the third line has three words. You can write just one, or chain several together into a longer poem. For example, you could write a hay(na)ku sonnet, like the one that Vince himself wrote back during NaPoWriMo 2012!

Happy  writing!

The sounds of freedom

Cicadas
stir a
euphonious midnight melody.

Mesmerized
listen the
cooped up hens.

Freedom
a sanguine
song for incarcerated.

Breeze
waltzes up
the terrace, happy.

Hens
in pens
prick up ears.

Flaccid
fists thump
the contaminated air.

Joints
creak ceaselessly
yearning for renewal.

Hope
bursts forth
through tired eyes.   

Tears
cascade down
in happy profusion.

Freedom
is just
round the corner.