i realize that haiku doesn't always have to be 5-7-5...that there are other syllable combinations that may be applied but should always be 17 syllables or less. You've got 18 here. How bout: Heavy mist at dawn/inhaled and felt on my arms/not rain, not a cloud. Because it's really so beautiful.
Hm. "Inhaled" seems to read as either two or three syllables, probably depending on regional accent (I read it as two, but geo. regions with slower speech patterns or more dipthongs/twang will read it as three.)
"Inhaled," to my ear, is two syllables, but you do raise an interesting point. I've long wondered whether "fire" is properly one or two syllables--the triphthong of "ire" makes for a very long vowel sound (long in the classical prosody sense) and can, in some dialects, sound much better broken in two. In fact, in the Carolinas, many "r" triphthongs, such as "there," come across as two syllables--"they-air." I make use of this ambiguity with "fire" in my haiku, "Fireflies."
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my expectations of you are now no less
you melting here into clarity
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