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Seasons of Drabbles - Summer Round 2023
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2023-08-04
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Haiku of Widdershins

Summary:

Double drabble of haiku based on the places and characters in the Whyborne and Griffin series

Notes:

Treat for EllerWrites! You said you were OK with poetry so I grabbed the opportunity to indulge my love of haiku. The first drabble follows the tradition of including nature in the work. The second drabble is all characters and places.

(See the end of the work for other works inspired by this one.)

Work Text:

The one for the land

Both scholar and sorcerer

Fire in his blood

 

The one for the sea

She who sings above the waves

Beware her sharp bite 

 

Far off northern land

Trapped beneath the frozen earth

Mother of Shadows

 

What creatures lurk there

In the tunnels underground

Beneath Widdershins

 

Beautiful umbrae

Floating through the Draakenwood

Their touch burns their foes 

 

The land of Egypt

Hot sun, buried history

What evil waits there

 

Flat land of Kansas

Consumed by these deadly spores

Fire burns the rust

 

Tool of the Outside

Calling to a thousand stars

Our town knows its own

 

******

 

Percival Whyborne

Lord of fire and lightning

Scared of a rooster

 

Twice abandoned son

Flawed man with a devil’s grin

Widdershins calls you

 

Look! Under the waves

A fin! A splash! Is it her?

Yes! Persephone

 

Hello cuttlefish

Maggie, the love of my life

You brought me waffles! 

 

Miss Christine Putnam

Lady archeologist

That’s Doctor Putnam

 

Iskander Barnett

Both Egyptian and English

Masterful with knives

 

Head librarian

With bloody dictionary

Mister Quinn yells charge

 

He waits in shadow

Bane of rat things from Outside

Mighty hunter Saul

 

Where is the best spot 

In Widdershins for a tryst?

Whyborne’s office desk!

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