ktellefsen2 wrote on Thu, 14 May 2020 19:38
Post by k***@gmail.comPost by Rockyktellefsen2 wrote on Thu, 14 May 2020 19:04
Post by k***@gmail.comPost by Rockyktellefsen2 wrote on Thu, 14 May 2020 18:09
Post by k***@gmail.comSynthetic Cells
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We've been taught to doubt ourselves,
wrap ourselves in waxen shells,
honeycomb of little hells.
Nice, nearly haiku....
Thanks Zod
Actually metrical and almost an epigram.
Yes...
"Not my forte per se..."
Ha ha ha.....
yellow heads
decorate the lawn
bright sun
ye/llow /hea/d/s
de/co/ra/te /the /law/n
b/righ/t /su/n
The haiku form has three lines, with 5, 7 and 5 phonemes.
A haiku should represent an observed instant and include some suggestion of season.
In Japanese, the number of phonemes usually equals the number of syllables.
In English, the quasi rule is 5-7-5 syllables, but in my opinion, this is the
maximum number of syllables per line.
yellow heads
decorate the lawn
pull them out
I am rather fond of American Haiku:
https://briefpoems.wordpress.com/tag/american-haiku/
"Jack Kerouac attempted to "Americanise" the haiku form. <<...>> and experimented with haiku which he called 'pops,' a genre he defined as ''short 3-line pomes." His haiku remain fundamentally American
The windmills
of Oklahoma look
in every direction.
"......Jack Kerouac offered his own definition of the American Haiku: The American Haiku is not exactly the Japanese Haiku. The Japanese Haiku is strictly disciplined to seventeen syllables but since the language structure is different I don't think American Haikus (short three-line poems intended to be completely packed with Void of Whole) should worry about syllables because American speech is something again...bursting to pop.... I propose that the 'Western Haiku' simply say a lot in three short lines in any Western language. Above all, a Haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi Pastorella......."
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