Literary Maneuvers: Hungover Haiku
Opens: Monday 30th May
Closes: Saturday 11th June
Hello my dearest dears, my darlingest darlings, my praised, my loved, evoked, summoned, drunk, memorized, contained and planted. Hello.
I figured we'd get the ball rolling with something nicely short. Haiku it is. The theme this fortnight is The Morning After. As with all themes, you're free to interpret that in whichever way your heart desires: the morning after a night out, the morning after a night in, the morning after birth, death, love, loss...
Ergh, I can't write Haiku!
The beauty of Haiku is that everyone can write one. If you've never written one before, I'll give you a quick run through.
In simple terms, a Haiku is a three line poem where the first line uses five syllables, the second uses seven, and the last uses five again. The syllable count is a transcription of the original Japenese method of counting beats (www.tempslibres.org/tl/en/theo/mode04.html), and is designed to make the entire poem readable in a single breath. For example:
As it passes by
The full moon barely touches
Fishhooks in the waves.
There are plenty of conventions for writing Haiku in Japenese, but for us foreigners there really aren't many consensus rules. In terms of this challenge, a Haiku is thus defined as nothing more than a poem of five, seven and five syllables. Easy money.
There are many online resources dealing with Haiku and their writing. Some further illumination might be gleaned from Jorge's stimulating article here at WF.com.
If, after reading the LM Guide in this forum, you aren't quite sure how this whole thing works, feel free to leave your questions in the Free Love thread or contact me by PM.
Good luck!
--
Edit: It is no longer required for you to leave a comment on whether you want your score posted unless you don't.
Feel free to make non-submission comments in this thread, so long as they're enclosed within Off-Topic tags.
Opens: Monday 30th May
Closes: Saturday 11th June
Hello my dearest dears, my darlingest darlings, my praised, my loved, evoked, summoned, drunk, memorized, contained and planted. Hello.
I figured we'd get the ball rolling with something nicely short. Haiku it is. The theme this fortnight is The Morning After. As with all themes, you're free to interpret that in whichever way your heart desires: the morning after a night out, the morning after a night in, the morning after birth, death, love, loss...
Ergh, I can't write Haiku!
The beauty of Haiku is that everyone can write one. If you've never written one before, I'll give you a quick run through.
www.toyomasu.com/haiku said:
In simple terms, a Haiku is a three line poem where the first line uses five syllables, the second uses seven, and the last uses five again. The syllable count is a transcription of the original Japenese method of counting beats (www.tempslibres.org/tl/en/theo/mode04.html), and is designed to make the entire poem readable in a single breath. For example:
As it passes by
The full moon barely touches
Fishhooks in the waves.
There are plenty of conventions for writing Haiku in Japenese, but for us foreigners there really aren't many consensus rules. In terms of this challenge, a Haiku is thus defined as nothing more than a poem of five, seven and five syllables. Easy money.
There are many online resources dealing with Haiku and their writing. Some further illumination might be gleaned from Jorge's stimulating article here at WF.com.
If, after reading the LM Guide in this forum, you aren't quite sure how this whole thing works, feel free to leave your questions in the Free Love thread or contact me by PM.
Good luck!
--
Edit: It is no longer required for you to leave a comment on whether you want your score posted unless you don't.
Feel free to make non-submission comments in this thread, so long as they're enclosed within Off-Topic tags.
Code:
[ot]Off topic text.[/ot]
[/ot:f7fb4d1fa5]
