Our eighth prompt, brought to us by Lawrence Congdon, is a size challenge:
Haiku is a wonderful challenge, but English is an even-metered language, and the odd beats of haiku often sound foreign. Of course haiku works better, more naturally, with the short dense words and idiograms of Japanese. So, let’s change the lines to 6-8-6. The extra syllable opens the haiku to a LOT more flexiblity and iterations of thought, images, and phrasing. Your challenge this week is to write an “English Haiku” with a syllable count of 6-8-6. Feeling daring? Write several!
Meet you back here Wednesday to share our haikus.
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June 25, 2010 at 9:52 pm
I love writing haikus, they’re like short breaths of fresh air.
June 28, 2010 at 2:34 am
I wrote one!
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2010/06/bygones.html
June 29, 2010 at 2:09 am
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June 30, 2010 at 1:20 am
[...] 30 June 2010 by Mallery Our eighth prompt on We Write Poems was to try our hand at English haiku. Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry. Generally they are [...]
June 30, 2010 at 4:17 am
Here are my English Haikus!
http://troublebeingstrong.blogspot.com/2010/06/english-haikus.html
July 1, 2010 at 3:38 am
[...] I’m not convinced that counting syllables is a meaningful approach, the prompt at We Write Poems specified 6-8-6. And since it’s in Americanese, I tried to avoid the frog ker-plunking into [...]