Day 4 of a week of poetry

You've made it past the halfway mark! How is the poeting going? I've only missed one day (yesterday) and I liked the prompt so much that I'm still going to try to make it up today. I want to try my hand at crafting a beautiful image for the sake of beauty. 

Today we're going to work on Haiku. That means you're going to shoot for 5/7/5 syllables. Some folks do this all on one line, some folks do 5 syllables on the first line, 7 on the second, 5 on the last. It's up to you. You can also do multiple stanzas, or just one. Focus on conjoining two images or ideas as simply and concisely as possible.

See you tomorrow, friends!

And look at that, I wrote another poem... are question marks inappropriate in the middle of poems?

Telescope

Your new name is Night,
in the grand tradition of
bright constellations.

Or do you flicker
forty million miles off?
constant explosions

so far away that
they tumble on to me as
pale, frozen star beams.

It's Been A Long Time, a Lonely Long Time

Hello!

It's NaNoWriMo again; I am stoked! I'm actually going to try to novel, this year. I've noticed a very steady decline in my grammar, and I'm excited to stretch and flex my sentence skills. It's been a long time.

Are you doing NaNo? Be my friend... I'm Kirstikins. Be my writing buddy!

The NaNo Facebook page posted a pre-November prompt to write a letter to yourself, for consumption sometime mid-November. Here it goes:

Dear Me,

Are you doing okay? How was plotting, for the first time ever? You don't like being prepared, do you? Well, now you have no excuses. Honestly. I am astounded. Is it helping? Are you doing okay?

Are you writing something atrocious? That's okay, sweetie. Nobody has to see it. You are kick-starting your juices for this year. I hope you are enjoying the immersion. I hope that this is just what you were looking for.

Take a deep breath. You have this.

Excited for you to read this,

Past You