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Have you heard of Haiku? - I am Shayne - 12-06-2017 Hello Bring4thers! There is a short form of poetry created by the Japanese, called Haiku. A traditional form of it goes as so: Old Pond A frog jumps in -the sound of water By Matsuo Basho They take the reader to one moment in their imagination. In 3 lines or less, they relay an occurrence or relation between entities: animals, weather, season, place, items, structure, etc. very simply. I invite anyone to post haikus they have written and / or ones they like. Here are some that I enjoy: A fallen flower returning to the branch? It was a butterfly The snow of yesterday that fell like cherry blossoms is water once again no escaping it I must step on fallen leaves to take this path Here are some I've written: Trickling from dark soil, a creek emerges beneath silent Oaks Cold silent night. Where are they? A leaf drops The darkest tempest overseen by a billion stars -the sight of lightning Brisk morning by foot empty handed samurai longs for nothing more RE: Have you heard of Haiku? - unity100 - 12-07-2017 Writing english haiku sasugani muri... better in japanese... RE: Have you heard of Haiku? - I am Shayne - 12-07-2017 (12-07-2017, 01:20 PM)unity100 Wrote: Writing english haiku Google translates that to Indeed impossible... What more does that mean to you? The Axis Strikes Back Lo! These Many Moons Later - Dekalb_Blues - 12-08-2017 The Axis Strikes Back Lo! These Many Moons Later CRANKY BUT GENKI (A poem to be read round-eyedly, or even shifty-eyedly) What a silly art: Just syllabic'ly-driven poemlets?! No way, man! Besides, what the hell -- No two lines that even rhyme?! That don't sound sublime. We true arteests (if so constrained) must seek the truth In low-couth haikuth. ---- Kashikoi Baka [The arteest formerly known as Dekalb_Blues], from his Sanpaku School of Poetic Wordjamming for Gaijin Dummies (Tokyo & Hoboken: Un-aware Aisumasen Press, 2017) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bonus Japanese word for today: Arigata-meiwaku -- An act someone does for you that you didn't want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet nevertheless in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude . . . which somehow links to this interesting German word: Backpfeifengesicht -- A face badly in need of a fist https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/20775/bb12977599 https://thetab.com/us/princeton/2016/03/05/the-stereotypes-about-living-in-japan-that-are-actually-true-and-a-few-that-arent-2839 For a good time, see also: https://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=3976&pid=235107#pid235107 https://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=8236&pid=224686&pid=224686#pid224686 RE: Have you heard of Haiku? - unity100 - 12-08-2017 (12-07-2017, 09:54 PM)I am Shayne Wrote:(12-07-2017, 01:20 PM)unity100 Wrote: Writing english haiku omae no misketa no henji wa omae no kokoro no naka de iru!!! RE: Have you heard of Haiku? - Coordinate_Apotheosis - 12-08-2017 This makes me want to learn languages. I want to learn so much. Didn't a haiku need to be a specific amount of syllables? Or...Am I thinking of something else? RE: Have you heard of Haiku? - unity100 - 12-08-2017 (12-08-2017, 06:11 AM)Coordinate_Apotheosis Wrote: This makes me want to learn languages. My last sentence wasnt a haiku. I made up the earlier one too. RE: Have you heard of Haiku? - sunnysideup - 12-08-2017 (12-08-2017, 06:11 AM)Coordinate_Apotheosis Wrote: This makes me want to learn languages. Yeah, that's what I thought too. At least at school I was taught to either write a haiku using 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 pattern or 11 syllables in 3-5-3 pattern. RE: Have you heard of Haiku? - I am Shayne - 12-09-2017 5-7-5 is the standard way of writing it, but its okay if its less syllables. Sometimes 17 syllables makes the haiku unnecessarily drawn out. As long as it is the simplicity of the relationship of 2 entities. Generally a cutting phrase is added, which gives the reader a sense of action or unexpectedness about that moment. Frozen pond An Oak leaf half in half out This haiku does not follow the 5-7-5 (in english), nor the 3 line format, but it does what haikus are awesome for: It conveys (to me) a feeling and an imaginative picture. The entities are a frozen pond and an Oak leaf. Their relationship is that the fallen oak leaf 'half in, half out' atop the frozen pond. moonlit snail trails on the garden Buddha Also doesnt adhere to the characteristics of general haiku, but it still conveys a picture and a feeling within one moment RE: Have you heard of Haiku? - isis - 12-09-2017 Refreshing cold Air, how I can and do love you. You make warmth better. No shoes required so of course my feet are bare. The ground is holy. The heavenly Fog forces me to feel surreal and I am thankful. Leaves are dancing down, green and yellow turn to brown. Death begins again. Wondrous Water, I see you, feel you, am you... Could I be more blessed? Pain has a purpose, along with everything else. In time you will see. RE: . . . But No Cigar - Dekalb_Blues - 12-10-2017 . . . But No Cigar So close . . . Chikai ga nai hamaki Great haiku concept! I frame it concisely but -- ! too many sylla- Composition aid https://memegenerator.net/Race-To-Witch-Mountain-Template Too close Just right! [George Bush Sr. Crashes Boat Into Perkins Cove Dock in Ogunquit, Maine, on his way to get some Lobster. Ca. 2007] |