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WHAT’S YOUR STORY TODAY? is an invitation to share your daily feelings, thoughts, observations and ideas in haiku form as a creative diary. This is a link to the video presentation for this activity which has been created for the current STAY AT HOME LITERARY FESTIVAL #SAHLF2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGbggR6flrA
& on TikTok (a 1st for me!!) https://www.tiktok.com/@stay_at_home_lit_fest/video/6955429559491759365?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1
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To inspire you, think about gathering ideas together by answering any of these questions and see where they take you?
- How are you feeling today describe that emotion as a colour, taste, weather condition, smell, place?
- Choose three things in your home that mean something to you and describe them, maybe draw or photograph them too?
- Where would you like to be right now, describe a favourite place real or imagined?
- What are you dreaming about doing today, this can be something you wish you could do but can’t, something you miss doing or something you have always wanted to do – let your imagination fly!
- Who would you most like to see today and why?
- What have you done today, describe that journey, walk, job, activity, daydream… again use images too if you wish?
- Describe what you see outside your window, maybe take a photo or video too?
- What do you see when you look in the mirror?
- Find a keepsake, hold it, close your eyes and describe where this takes you?
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With each question, write down your ideas – you can also draw or take a photograph or a video too. Condense your ideas to fit into a haiku of 3 lines where the first line is made up of 5 syllables the middle 7 syllables and a final line of 5 syllables but this is a guideline not a rule and less is also welcome eg lines of 3/5/3 syllables.
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Share your haiku here in comments below and/or on THE DAILY HAIKU and to take part in the STAY AT HOME LITERARY FESTIVAL use the hashtag #SAHLF2021 via social media. Individual question prompts are also on Instagram with the handle @stayathomelitfest and for TikTok it’s @stay_at_home_lit_fest
Another link to the presentation https://www.stayathomelitfest.org/author-films/amanda-white/
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old grey rags
time to throw away
my disappointment
#SAHLF2021
I walk in purple
Behind the door and long desk
She sits in judgment
Skin tries to crawl hide
No shedding of the layers
Wonderfully evocative Lynda brava
sullen sky
colour of an old tooth
loose at the gums
#SAHLF2021 #haiku
What’s My Story
As blue as techno
Pulsing machine beats
Throwing in celtic chanteuse
As veiled as Enya
On the Orinoco
Protected by mosquito bites
Our creams and powders
In the pink bathroom
Still waiting to be applied
After the hot tub
Where I lie and dream
Of far distant geographies
Before drying off
The bed holds more dreams
Of friends meeting to party
Work mates meet old mates
From different places
Coming together
Down at the doctors
With fresh milk and alcohol
Everyone feels good
We go to Tulse Hill
To talk Red Hand Files
The words of a songwriter
Who thinks he Elvis
Only much darker
And free of no auction block
So we become free
Free at last. Free, free
We always wanted to be