Haiku Challenge: The 'Ring' Cycle

Soundcheck | Mar 30, 2012

As the Met Opera kicks off three complete "Ring" cycles - which each run about 15 hours in length - we pose a poetic challenge to our listeners. Summarize Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle in the length of a haiku.

Reminder: A haiku is a 17-syllable poem that's separated into lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Host John Schaefer composed this haiku about the "Ring" cycle as an example: "The Lord Of The Rings / is a greedy ugly dwarf / but he sure can sing"

Leave your haiku in the comments section below - or, you can tweet your haiku to us using the hashtag #ringhaiku. Or, email it to us at soundcheck@wnyc.org. We might read your haiku on the air!

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