The format is simple: three lines of verse with 5/7/5 syllables, respectively.
Haiku, traditionally, must include at least one image of nature, a seasonal reference, a "cutting word" that acts as a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation of two juxaposed images, and no punctuation or similes; senryu is generally about human foibles. There are more rules to be found in the links below, if you're a purist...but WE BREAK MOST OF THE RULES HERE.
Each new discussion should act as a topic for haiku/senryu from the whole group. So, for example, the discussion "Joy" is a place to write about whatever lifts your spirits or puts a smile on your face. Sometimes, the author of a discussion may have particular criteria for what you are to write; for instance, he or she may ask that you use a specific word or words in your haiku/senryu. So be sure to read the author's instructions.
Everyone is free to post a new discussion...and please do. The more topics, the better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senry%C5%AB
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I just haven't taken the time yet to go thru all the discussions
I really find it odd and ironic that I am writing in the genre of poetry. Reading poetry usually leaves me frustrated and feeling "why don't they just come out and say what they mean" Any effort to write it comes out like a science treatise set to rhyme and metre. And I'm cranky that the form prevents me from saying what I mean in a direct fashion. I really think it's a sign of mild Asbergers.
However Haikus may be different. The form seems to force a simple directness with a sensory experience. Just what I am trying to achieve with mindfulness.
Ah, PTB! I didn't see you here.
Thank you for your evocative haiku!
It's too good to be overlooked. Next time you post (and PLEASE post more), would you click on "view all" and find (or create) a discussion that fits and post it there? (Like, the discussion "Summer" would have been good for this one.) Haiku posted on the comment wall are easy to overlook and eventually scroll away to oblivion.
Dawn creeping thru oaks
Cardinals courting their mates
Oh look a squirrel
Martin Luther King
champion of civil rights
equal one and all
Thank you Angharad for the welcome.
Thank you, mutb4 for the welcome, 2 days ago, my wife & I came back home to Istanbul, after six weeks of long visit to India, such great country full of culture and history, diffrent places and colorful people with many many believes, such warm sunny there , wow Goa, and Cochin 30-35C.
Now it is cold and snowing, below zero celsius.
Welcome Doga Seven48!
Jump right in and have fun. There are a gazillion discussion topics as prompts (be sure to click "view all"), and if you don't see a discussion you like, start a new one!
exotic turkey...
I look forward to reading
istanbul haiku
I agree, BellaG!
If you post in one of the discussions, your haiku won't eventually disappear from the front page, and we can write and comment directly to it. Be sure to click on "view all" because there are MANY more discussions than show on this page. And, if you don't see one you like, please start a new one. That would be exciting!
XOXOXOXOXOX
Greetings BellaG. check out some of the discussions above............
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