Poetic Forms card, B7, Haiku - Coirë (The Stirring)

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Challenge: Poetic Forms card, B7, Haiku
Author: Azalais
Title: Coire (The Stirring)
Characters: The White Tree of Gondor
Format: poetry
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Summary: C'mon, it's a haiku.... And the notes are longer than the piece. Sorry about that.

Coirë (The Stirring)

The Tree is withered.

But see! A sapling blossoms.

Hope is come again.

~~~

Technically, when Aragorn and Gandalf find the sapling of the White Tree on the mountain-slopes above Minas Tirith it's Lairë (Summer),  [thanks, blslarner, for the correction!],  not Coirë (Stirring). Call it poetic license...

Comments

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

I have always thought that a Haiku would be seriously hard to write. So much to say and so few words in which to say it! You did it wonderfully well.

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

In some ways it's quite liberating - even more so than a drabble - there's so little space that you have to pare down to almost nothing, so lots of subjects are out of the window before you start. Various ideas came and went and then the White Tree popped up, and seemed to work. Thank you!