Neighborhood Haiku
Civil Beat is giving the traditional haiku — a Japanese poem with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third — a local twist. For this project, we invite you to structure your poem using your neighborhood’s ZIP code instead.
Use the five digits in your zip code and write each line to contain the number of syllables of that digit. A zero represents a blank line. Everyone’s zip code in Hawaii starts with a 9, so nine syllables for the first line and so on.
We will be accepting entries until December 23. Click here to submit your poem.
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