POEM STARTER

Write a series of five Haiku set at the same event, exploring the five senses: sight, smell, sound, touch, taste.

A Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of three lines that generally do not rhyme, with a syllabic structure of 5-7-5.

The Senses Of My Torture Cell

5 things you see:

1) the lunch I don’t want to eat

2) the friends that probably hate me

3) the delivered message he isn’t responding to

4) the homework I didn’t complete

5) the school that made me want to die


4 things you feel:

1) the clothes that I feel insecure in

2) the staircase that made me choose this school

3) the headphones that cancel out the horrible world

4) the jacket covering my scars from before I disappeared


3 things you hear:

1) the jingle of my keys that make me look like I fit in

2) the music that is the only thing that can calm me down

3) my moms voice in my head telling me I’m a disappointment


2 things you taste:

1) the lunch my friends forced me to eat

2) the candy I ate because I couldn’t stop panicking


1 thing you can smell:

1) the smell of panic from the high expectations

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