i know, 's been awhile, faithful reader.
things have been...geez.
any minute now i'm going to come to the end of the zipper on this one.
i don't know what that means, but...any minute now.
sorry for the not-posting.
here are ten haiku i wrote today; i haven't written any haiku since middle school (ah, those...weren't the days either...)
for you:
ten haiku(s...?)
You think of the sun
As an eye blink’d out by clouds;
Yet, also, we hide
There, the crooked tree
With an old amber kneecap;
Ahab’s wooden leg
The oracle comes,
Slowness of speech folds its words;
It opens with time
The line reduces;
We grasp the world around us;
Zeno points our way
Why, now in autumn
Do you stare close at the ground?
Look up, falling sun!
Cold is between us,
So my arms wrap around you…
Winter makes us warm
Days fall from the sky
Like our ornery children;
Bury them and mourn
Night sails in the sky
Blow your breath into his wings
singing songs with friends
There is no woman
With power, when you’re resolv’d;
Yet you look at her
Age falls down my face
Gently, like a steady rain
Until it cracks me
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hey phil, can i ask a stupid question?
how do you construct a haiku?
are there a certain number of words or lines or syllables?
never knew.
the most common form of haiku contains a total of 17 syllables: five in the first line, seven in the second line, five in the last. technically they are supposed to contain a word significant of season, and punctuation break, that sort of divides the poem into two supporting halves...i adhere mainly to the syllable requirement while acheiving varying degrees of success with the other requirements.
By two supporting halves, is it meant after the 8th syllable, or the second line, or is it pretty loose?
more loose...the break comes with the break in thought, rather than at a predetermined point
ah, nicely explained.
well, what am i waiting for?
off to go write my first.
:-)
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