Tuesday is Challenge Day at Wake Up Writing: This week we have a haiku challenge.

Haiku is one of the Japanese forms of poetry. In its basic form, It’s based on the amount of syllables in each of the 3 lines of the poem as follows:

line 1: 5 syllables
line 2: 7 syllables
line 3: 5 syllables

Today your challenge is to write a haiku based on a summer theme - whether it’s the picnics you enjoy at the beach, the vacation you take from work/school, the annoying way sun affects your eyes, or the activities you love to do during the summer months, try and write them down in a haiku, and then if you’re a subscriber, why not share your haiku with me and see if you are chosen to be the first "featured" exercise of the week writer at our newly constructed site.

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