This personal project is inspired by this blogpost by Courtney Symons.
Haiku is a form of poetry which has three-lines. The first sentence has 5 syllables, the second has 7 syllables and the last one has 5 syllables. The number of syllables in a word is the number of times one can hear any of the vowels as separate sound.
Moreover, I am planning to use a new word in each haiku from the Mirriam word-of-the-day calendar
Day 1 : Embezzle : To steal money you have been trusted with.
For embezzling funds
from children's down syndrome trust,
she was imprisoned
Day 2 : Torrid : Hot or passionate
A long torrid month
the famished farmer prays on
grey skies show mercy
Day 3 : Nosegay : A small bunch of flowers
wait for someone to
get you silly nosegays or
plant your own garden
Day 4 : Auxiliary : Providing supplementary assistance
she found solace as
an auxiliary nanny
in an orphanage
Day 5 : Provender : Food or victuals
my mule is strong enough
to carry coal along with
its own provender
Day 6 : Speculate : to form ideas or theories about something
Oversharing makes
you look moronic. Let the
others speculate
Day 7 : Gnomic : Characterized by aphorism
Read her gnomic note
tormented by depression
she had killed herself
Day 8 : Cogent : Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason
Corrupt parties make
cogent promises they do
not intend to keep
Day 9 : Redaction : An act or instance of editing or removing
A person cannot
redact his past; but he can
define his future
Day 10: Whinge : To complain fretfully
Whinging and loathing
to work on things that went wrong
signs of a bird brain
Day 11: Desideratum : something desired as essential
Delicious food,
good books desiderata
for a happy life
Day 12: Hapless : having no luck
see strangers as foe;
skeptical of their comrades;
hapless men, post-war.
Day 13: Undergird : to strengthen or support
luck is not random
I consistently work hard
to undergird luck
Day 14: Motley : made up of different people or things
motley group of tots
ignorant of the evil
laughing their hearts out
Day 15: Addlepated : confused or eccentric
crowded festival
addlepated men
causing a stampede
Day 16: Evince : to constitute outward evidence of
the tortured puppy
evinced hatred of humans
burn marks on its back
Day 17: Bildungsroman : a novel about a characters's coming of age
On a cosy couch
reading a bildungsroman
with some hot tea
Day 18: Calliope : a musical instrument like piano
Succulent dishes,
gay calliope music,
Festival is here!
Day 19: Fulgent : Dazzlingly bright
She sweat through the year
for company placement tests.
A fulgent future.
Day 20: Kowtow : to kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in token of homage, worship, or deep respect
Kowtowing beggars-
make me sad; Unemployment
highest in three years.
Day 21: Xenophobia : Fear of anything that is strange or foreign