Welcome to Day 10 of National Poetry Month! I’m celebrating by writing a haiku each day in April, and I’d love for you to join me! Simply share your haiku in the comments. For each haiku you share, I’ll enter your name into a drawing for my book of haiku, Life: Haiku by Haiku.

I watched the splashdown and exhaled with relief when the capsule splashed down! I tried to capture what I felt in seventeen syllables. Not easy, but that’s why I love haiku. It’s a challenge to tell a story in so few syllables.

Give it a try!

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New to writing haiku? Here’s the pattern:

Three lines with a total of seventeen syllables:

5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables

Anyone who shares a haiku in the comments is entered into a drawing to win a copy of my book, Life: Haiku by Haiku!