POEM STARTER

Write a series of five Haiku set at the same event, exploring the five senses: sight, smell, sound, touch, taste.

A Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of three lines that generally do not rhyme, with a syllabic structure of 5-7-5.

Alice

I saw the rabbit

Stopwatch, coat, tie, down the hole

Picnic forgotten


My knees scrape the ground

I crawl, down the rabbit hole

Now I feel weightless


Paper, fungi, tea?

My nose knows no nothings

Only everythings


I am sat; table

Clinking china, rustled hat

Whispered madness, cat


Inviting letters

‘Eat me’ they say; tall, short,

Taste of madness too


I wonder of land. But who visits wonderland?

Comments 15

Extremely well done , I 🖤Alice in Wonderland too & loved

every line!♣️♦️♠️🌹🦋🌹🐇

I’m writing—well, attempting to—a novel based of of Alice in wonderland. I love this so much. Great work 👏👏

This is good

Especially the rhyme

One of the best Haikus about Alice in Wonderland

That last line for sure. Amazing. The whole poem definitely captured the strange wonder of a place like Wonderland. Sporadic, yet everything in place.