Image posted by @bananafish for Mizu No Oto - Every Image Has Its Haiku Contest - WEEK #7 - HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!

                                            Hollow construction.
                                            Lost souls roam about the halls.
                                            Where our path leads us.

Translation into Spanish

                                            Construcción hueca.
                                            Almas perdidas vagan en los pasillos.
                                            Allí nos guía el camino.

5-7-5 format in Spanish

                                            Construcción hueca.
                                            Las almas vagan dentro.
                                            Adonde vamos.

This is my first entry ever into @bananafish’s #HaikuContest: “Mizu No Oto - Every Image Has Its Haiku Contest.” This Week #7 and a Halloween Special.
You can check it out here on Steemit:

https://steemit.com/haikucontest/@bananafish/mizu-no-oto-every-image-has-its-haiku-contest-week-7-halloween-special-1540518009

If You Want to know about this Contest and my participation:

This contest uses a different prompt every week: a picture. So this time the challenge is double, as contestants must consider both the appointed celebration (Halloween) and picture (which you can see above).

Among the forms of brief poetry, couplets and haiku have a special place in my virtual library. When it comes to the former, I prefer heroic couplets because I love the solemnity that iambic pentameter adds to whatever you say in verse form. As for haiku, I am fond of haiku and senryū, which are the only types which writing I’ve experienced so far, being the latter the most difficult for me, for it should imply irony (and irony is not an easy person).

It is my personal opinion that haiku writing would make a fine diary, for it helps us keep memories of what the deep contemplation of a scene or image made us feel at the moment. We people use photo albums for that, but these are still frames which convey little or nothing of the ongoing emotions and thoughts. Among the many ways you could make sure an impression would last, haiku writing is one of my favorite.

About the Form and Meaning of this Haiku

To begin with, the notion that most things are empty carcasses until we human beings imbue them with meaning came to my mind as soon as I looked at this picture. It looks like an abandoned castle, which is the first image in the picture which draws our attention. The second most outstanding feature is the path leading the way to its entrance; you cannot help thinking about the inexorability of a visit.

As I went into deep contemplation of this still frame, I imagine a good deal of scenes. For example, in one of them, the structure had been a castle and then turned into a hotel, which eventually became a white elephant.

But the first notion never abandoned me: we give life and we take it. Things are what we want them to be. One day the hotel is full; next thing you know it has become a ghostly apiece of forgotten architecture, like a lifeless body, or that old relative you never went visiting anymore, or that dream you just forgot.
This haiku speaks of the destiny all earthly things must meet eventually: hollowness.

Thanks for reading.

---

Posted from my blog with SteemPress : https://marlyncabrera.timeets.com/2018/10/31/mizu-no-oto-every-image-has-its-haiku-contest-week-7-halloween-special/

---

Soy compañera de viaje en

Logo diseñado por @octocel