All My Haiku from the #BookReviewHaiku / Critique Challenge...

A few weeks ago, Judey Kalchik dared Vocal creators to write book reviews in the form of haiku. She called it the #BookReviewHaiku Challenge.

I was hooked from the get-go! So, when Vocal ran its Critique Challenge, I decided to do things differently from other writers, by including a haiku in each of my entries.

I highly doubt I will place in the challenge, but I had tons of fun writing those pieces. So much, in fact, that I want to do an entire series of haiku inspired by my favorite works of art—books, paintings, movies, poems, songs, etc. I have tons of ideas!

In the meantime, let me share all the haiku I crafted for Judey's and Vocal's challenges. Each review is linked at the end.

Haiku 1

Morning breeze:

just flying with all his might—

Jonathan’s shadow.

©2023 Cendrine Marrouat

Haiku inspired by Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingstone Seagull

Haiku 2

In the Sahara

miles away from the rose

yet laughing stars.

©2023 Cendrine Marrouat

Haiku inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince

Haiku 3

The letter and mask

stand for remembrance

beyond November.

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Haiku inspired by the movie V for Vandetta

Haiku 4-6

Dare to see—

Beauty within Self

Through the Summer Sky.

A bumblebee:

Somewhere from the Soul

Love speaks of Spring.

Perhaps,

If thoughts were like a bird—

Paradise would wait.

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Haiku inspired by the book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Haiku 7

To the stars:

the father, the son and

the untethering.

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Haiku inspired by the movie Ad Astra

Haiku 8

The waiting:

a regal chiaroscuro

many witnesses.

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Haiku inspired by Diego Velázquez’s painting Las Meninas

Haiku 9

Broken shoes—

growing thinner and thinner—

mind over tattooed number.

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Haiku inspired by Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man

Haiku 10

Up and down

far yet so familiar—

our magnified foibles.

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Haiku inspired by Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

Haiku 11

In the garden:

neglecting optimism

over cultivation.

©2023 Cendrine Marrouat

Haiku inspired by Voltaire's Candide

That's it for today! Thank you for reading.

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Cendrine Marrouat is a writer, photographer, podcaster, blogger, anthology editor, and the co-founder of Auroras & Blossoms and A Warm Cup of Cozy. She has authored and co-authored more than 40 books, including The Train: A Short Story (2023), In Her Own Words: A Collection of Short Stories & Flashku (2022), After the Fires of Day: Haiku Inspired by Kahlil Gibran & Alphonse de Lamartine (2021), Rhythm Flourishing: A Collection of Kindku and Sixku (2020), Walks: A Collection of Haiku (2019-2020), and In the Silence of Words: A Three-Act Play (2018).

Cendrine's work has appeared in many publications. She is the creator of the Sixku, Flashku, Sepigram, and Reminigram; as well as the co-creator of the Kindku, Pareiku, Vardhaku, and Hemingku.