Estonian Haiku

Estonia
My bucket list
Visit some day

Estonia
Is Such a strange name
For a country

Estonia
Cool Midnight summer nights
Giant bugs

Estonia
Just appeals to me
For some reason

Estonia
Nordic cool all around
Yet Expensive

Thank you Bob'n Around for judging today.

We are going to start Poetry Week with a new form - the "Estonian Haiku"


Write one Estonian Haiku, or a chain of five Estonian Haiku, and make something out of Nature your topic.

So: Line count will be 3, or 15, not more.


Estonian Haiku.

A relatively new form - adapted from the Japanese Haiku, which is written in Estonia and Finland. The first book with Estonian Haiku was published in 2010, according tot the Dutch Wikipedia page, though the English page mentions a book from Andres Ehrin, published in Ireland in 2005, written in this form.


It is a short form, just three lines, with the following syllable count:

4 - 6 - 4 syllables

It describes in a laconic way existantial aspects of life, being and nature in Estonia, according to Estonian poet Jürgen Rooste.*


An example:

nordic walk with
an Estonian twist
makes you relax


*Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_haiku
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estische_haiku
Poem: ©2022 Bianca Boonstra