The Universe is Alive

The Universe is Alive

The Universe is Alive

The universe
The Cosmos is alive
Some call it God


New Prompt:

We are going to play with the "Estonian Haiku" and use one of the given topics: life, being or nature.

Maximum is 16 lines (including the title).
A special thanks to Woes Ploum - municipal poet in Lansingerland (NL), who pointed me to this form.

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.*