The elements for today’s Writing 201 poetry assignment:

• ‘Water’ as the prompt
• Haiku as the form
• Simile as the device

Haiku takes several forms, with each form defined by how many lines it contains and how many syllables are in each line. This poem takes the three-line 5-7-5 form. I chose a river because I’ve always enjoyed the experience of watching and listening to the movement of a river, whether large or small. There is no obvious simile in this poem.

River Language

Slow river murmurs

secrets to the shore, and in

the reeds, it giggles