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SY: The Day is Greener On The Other Side

NaPoWriMo Day 3 Prompt taken from  Spill The Ink Poetry Lab by  If Walls Could Talk KL and Poetry Cafe KL "Pick a colour OTHER than blue, find 5 items of that colour throughout your day, and write a poem on how they've made the blues worse (or not!). even if you want blue, pick a certain shade. BONUS! if you want to win extra points, write a haiku for each item. A haiku is traditional Japanese form, which consists of three-lines. The first and last line has 5 syllables, whereas the second line has 7 syllables. Example: I wish I can sleep but Monday forced me to wake up and write this down EXTRA BONUS! Poetry Cafe KL introduces a new form called Haibun, in which you can try it out if you want!" "Basically, haibun is the combination of two poems: a prose poem and haiku. For a further guide on how to write  haibun . For example: In the shadow of the Nevado del Ruiz, rice farmers woke as if on any other morning. Their daily pleasures and worri...