comments on haiku...lately i've been doing a lot of haiku, not because i had studied it for years and had always wanted to perfect the genre, but because i've been watching two young children a lot with a little pad in my pocket that i'm sometimes free to use at two-minute intervals. i decided to write first, reflect later. but now is time to reflect.
come to find out, most haiku don't have titles (i think). i'd been using titles, had even come to rely on them. don't know if i can let go of them, or if i should. how do you refer to your own poems? how do you lead others to them? i've started using variable titles; though i may just start leaving them out and referring to my poems by their first line, or better yet, by their first word.
also, classic haiku apparently has reference to a season, or so they say...i'd never thought of that. never had a clue. this is the first day of 'tutored' haiku; before today, all were untutored. might go back and put it in, might not. i'm one for sticking with the ancient ways. but nobody ever said, your reference couldn't be a link, say, to a picture of a blizzard or a summer rain storm.
finally, some people are doing free haiku, i guess, or so it appears. why would you want to change the rules? i don't. seventeen syllables is ok with me. i can see, if you translated it, say, from japanese or something, why this might make sense. but english has plenty of room to work with...
nobody else, that I can see, does link haiku or total link haiku...i may be the first.
also, as far as i know, nobody goes deep into html code and finds poetry...i may be the first to do that also, and the first to actually put it there (look in my template)...
what is appealing about haiku is its conciseness. that's what good writing is anyway. but another thing appeals to me...the actualist nature of it. actualism is by definition, i believe, seeing the divine in the ordinary and mundane...haiku has been there all along. i need to do more research on actualism, maybe. and haiku too. look into what the masters say...
come to find out, most haiku don't have titles (i think). i'd been using titles, had even come to rely on them. don't know if i can let go of them, or if i should. how do you refer to your own poems? how do you lead others to them? i've started using variable titles; though i may just start leaving them out and referring to my poems by their first line, or better yet, by their first word.
also, classic haiku apparently has reference to a season, or so they say...i'd never thought of that. never had a clue. this is the first day of 'tutored' haiku; before today, all were untutored. might go back and put it in, might not. i'm one for sticking with the ancient ways. but nobody ever said, your reference couldn't be a link, say, to a picture of a blizzard or a summer rain storm.
finally, some people are doing free haiku, i guess, or so it appears. why would you want to change the rules? i don't. seventeen syllables is ok with me. i can see, if you translated it, say, from japanese or something, why this might make sense. but english has plenty of room to work with...
nobody else, that I can see, does link haiku or total link haiku...i may be the first.
also, as far as i know, nobody goes deep into html code and finds poetry...i may be the first to do that also, and the first to actually put it there (look in my template)...
what is appealing about haiku is its conciseness. that's what good writing is anyway. but another thing appeals to me...the actualist nature of it. actualism is by definition, i believe, seeing the divine in the ordinary and mundane...haiku has been there all along. i need to do more research on actualism, maybe. and haiku too. look into what the masters say...
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