Sleep
My Very First ‘Haiku’
1 min readJan 28, 2019
Curled like a comma.
In the pause, its time to sleep,
draw breath and exhale.
Haiku is a Japanese poem of 17 syllables, in lines of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables.
Haiku often invokes images of the natural world.
When written in English Haiku poetry follow the same format.