Saturday, 17 April 2021

National Haiku Day at the Mining Museum

 


April celebrates National Haiku Day. What is a haiku? It is a single verse of three short unrhymed lines, like this:

Just five syllables

A longer line of seven

And then back to five


On behalf of Voices in the Coalshed here is my haiku inspired by the picture above.

 

Atmosphere heated

The dust has not settled yet

Three miners snapping

 

Here are two more haiku responses to the picture.

 

A rare moment’s rest

Together in our darkness

Waiting for the light

 

                                                Liz Renshaw

 

Snaptime! What’s tha’ got?

Bread and jam, bit a fruit cake

Mucky fat for me

 

                                                 Julia Chalkley

 

 

Dave Alton

Writer in Residence

National Coal Mining Museum of England

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