My haiku for Day 13 of National Poetry Month was inspired by a discarded merry-go-round horse we found on a playground. I was puzzled about how it got there, but was also charmed by my granddaughter’s enchantment with the horse. She carried on a conversation, as if the old horse could hear her.

I found myself wondering what the horse thought about the conversation. Perhaps you, too, could write a haiku about the horse’s thoughts? Or maybe a haiku about what my granddaughter said to the horse?

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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!