Share Your Pandemic Haiku
Get creative with poetry about your experiences during the past year
Whether small things like participating in Zoom meetings or deeper experiences such as being unable to see loved ones, we鈥檒l all take away something notable after a year of living and working during the COVID-19 pandemic.
To help celebrate International Haiku Poetry Day on April 17, we invite Duke staff and faculty to tap into their creative side and share experiences using the Japanese poetry form of Haiku 鈥 three-line poems using a structure of five syllables, seven syllables and five syllables. Poems can be about any of your moments, feelings or experiences 鈥 large or small 鈥 that meant something to you during the pandemic.
We鈥檒l share some poems in an upcoming Working老牛影视 story, and we鈥檒l give away some 鈥淧roud to be Working老牛影视鈥 T-shirts.
Send your poem to working@duke.edu by 5 p.m. on April 5 and provide your name, department, and phone number.
Here are three Haiku examples to get you going.
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My quiet iron.
Left alone for a full year.
I don鈥檛 fear wrinkles.
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No fever. No aches.
Click no new symptoms today.
SymMon says I鈥檓 good.
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First dose goes in arm.
In just a few weeks, I can
Do things that I love.