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Haiku: Magic Kingdom March #4
Moonlight? Wonderland? Glitter? You know what you're in for this week: Disney beauty most fantastical! Not only that, but JB takes a break from his traditional haiku-age and demonstrates his equal proficiency with a more difficult pattern.
The haiku theme for this month is Magic Kingdom March. Each week, JB Conway will evoke the Magic Kingdom in haiku. Maybe it's a ride. Maybe a building. Maybe it's a scent or a sound. Whatever it is, JB's haiku will conjure it in your mind and make it real again.
JB's latest haiku is different from his previous ones.
How? It's not in the topic, it's in the structure.
Each of the other haikus conformed to the traditional 5-7-5 pattern. In other words, seventeen syllables: five in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third.
This haiku conforms to the more difficult 3-5-3 pattern. It forces the poet to condense even further his imagery.
In the haiku, which I'll leave you to fully interpret, I envision beauty, ethereal in the moonlight, beckoning one irresistibly to cross over to wonderland...
By the way, if you haven't bought JB's book, Mouse of Zen, and yet you come here each week to read his haikus, why do you torture yourself? Are you a masochist? (Or maybe a mouseochist?) Don't you know you can get all the haikus at once? In the book!
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