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Haiku in English

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HAIKU: Type of poem . It comes from a Japanesse tradition. Originally it should talk about weather and nature, but we will "accept" poems talking about anything :wink:
It has groups of 3 verses with lengths 5-7-5 and no rhyme.



Shadows are falling
my heart doesn't understand
I long for light
Última edición por Arwen_77 el 06 Nov 2008 14:42, editado 1 vez en total.
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Arwen_77 escribió:Shadows are falling
my heart doesn't understand
I long for light
:shock:

Surprised I am
Arwen seventy seven
Caused commotion

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:beso: :wink:
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Thanks Katia!!

You (and your haiku :wink: ) are great!!
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Good Idea
Arwen
But it's So Difficult

I'll Try it
:meditando:

Walking Among the Shadows
feeling restless
About your eyes.
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Felicity escribió:Good Idea
Arwen
But it's So Difficult

I'll Try it
:meditando:

Walking Among the Shadows
feeling restless
About your eyes.
Beautiful Felicity! But, if you want it to follow "the rules" 5-7-5 you've got to change order and I think it can do, though meaning changes a little. :wink:

feeling restless
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about your eyes
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My God!
I've Forgotten It
:shock:

I'll Try to Sort Out
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Stormy love
thundering in the sky
braking all rules
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Tuning my heart
waiting, living my dreams
feeling quite extrange


I will edit first message to add haiku rules. Come on! Join in and make your own haiku
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The forum is grey
what if I try to write a
haiku in English?

This is fun, maybe I'll do another one :mrgreen:

By the way, in the first messagge Arwen says a haiku is 5-7-5, but all your haikus were 4-7-4, weren't they? I've made it 5-7-5 but I don't know if it's correct :wink:
1, 2... 1, 2... probando...
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Hi Shigella! Beautiful one! Regarding the metrics. Maybe I made a mistake. It's quite difficult for me to count syllables in English. I used the Spanish rule that goes : "if last word is a monosillable or last sylable is stressed then add one to get the number of metric syllables" I really don't know if that is also like that in English.
But I've found a less strict definition of Haiku. We can accept it also and have some fun playing with words :wink:

Haiku Form:

English-Language haiku is incorrectly said to have a prescribed form, three lines of 5-7-5 syllables and a seasonal reference. However, there is a great deal of debate about the form of English haiku and few agree that the 5-7-5 season reference form is the only acceptable form.

What then is the form of a haiku? Some of the critical aspects of haiku form that have been mentioned are:

brevity [one to three lines totaling 17 syllables or less]
three lines -- some would insist of 5-7-5 syllable structure, some suggest a structure of three lines with 5 or less, 7 or less, 5 or less syllables.
when read aloud, can be completed in one breadth
avoidance of traditional English poetic forms, such as rhyming and metaphor.
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Arwen_77 escribió:"if last word is a monosillable or last sylable is stressed then add one to get the number of metric syllables"
:shock: I didn't know that :oops:
Arwen_77 escribió:when read aloud, can be completed in one breadth
I like that characteristic :P

Well, then I suppose every haiku here is right.
Anyway, I think my haikus are going to be more "free style" and not about nature and weather :lengua:

I'll think about another one :wink:
1, 2... 1, 2... probando...
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What is a haiku?
Why would you want to write one?
Daft, it seems to me.
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persefone escribió:What is a haiku?
Why would you want to write one?
Daft, it seems to me.

Definition of a haiku is in the first message ,though that one is quite strict and I gave another one later. We have a sub-forum here to write our own poems (Los foreros escriben y dibujan). We do like to do it, and we've already written many haikus in Spanish. I just thought it would be fun to do it also in English. Why daft? I don't get your point. We've already written some haikus in messages above.
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Arwen_77 escribió: Definition of a haiku is in the first message ,though that one is quite strict and I gave another one later. We have a sub-forum here to write our own poems (Los foreros escriben y dibujan). We do like to do it, and we've already written many haikus in Spanish. I just thought it would be fun to do it also in English. Why daft? I don't get your point. We've already written some haikus in messages above.
Arwen, it's a haiku.

Think of it as British humour.
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persefone escribió:
Arwen_77 escribió: Definition of a haiku is in the first message ,though that one is quite strict and I gave another one later. We have a sub-forum here to write our own poems (Los foreros escriben y dibujan). We do like to do it, and we've already written many haikus in Spanish. I just thought it would be fun to do it also in English. Why daft? I don't get your point. We've already written some haikus in messages above.
Arwen, it's a haiku.

Think of it as British humour.

:oops: That what comes from writing back too quickly, without thinking

such pretty Haiku
persefone just made
shallow I've been
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