HAIKU

Millions of solar panels
past their use by dates -
bright October leaves

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Ciaran, I love the imagery in

Ciaran, I love the imagery in this haiku, with the neat metaphor of the changing autumn leaves as solar panels. The form is interesting, too, having the 7-syllable line (or 8, depending on how one pronounces “millions”) come first, followed by two 5-syllable lines.

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Thanks a lot for comment

Thanks a lot for comment Miles. Glad you liked it. I always love reading your poems, and reading them again to admire how the lines fit so beautifully together. I normally write non 5 7 5 haiku but happy to have the correct amount of syllables here, even if the lines are shuffled. Looking at 'millions' again, I probably pronounce it as a 2.5 syllable word, if that's possible. The final 'i' like an almost pronounced, ghost syllable.

Ciarán