Frozen lashes prick
On wakeful nights without you
Love wreathed in hollies.
Spring serenade flows
Hapless heart twitches in vain
Warm tears trickle slow.
Stubborn summer spike
Threatens to deice numb nerves,
Birdsongs calm no more.
Ah! Fiery Fall lands
Nature blushes all over,
Love pangs set ablaze.
Love’s immortal through seasons
I’m yours till we meet again.
#HaikuSonnet
Like the name itself, haiku sonnet is a combination of haiku and sonnet.
Haiku is a 3-line verse (with 5-7-5 syllables/per line) while a sonnet is a 14-line verse written in couplets. In other words, a haiku sonnet is a 14-line poem combining both forms. For haiku sonnet to work, there must be four haikus (= 12 lines), each haiku connecting to each other, and one couplet (with 7 syllables each) as the final two lines.
This poem is a 5-stanza, nonrhyming poem that follows these syllable counts—
5-7-5 (1st haiku)
5-7-5 (2nd haiku)
5-7-5 (3rd haiku)
5-7-5 (4th haiku)
7-7 (5th couplet)
This non-rhyming haiku sonnet is based on the four types of seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall in the entire poem.
