Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Everybody was haiku fighting...

Posted by Mickey Z on 12/15 at 05:29 AM
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  1. I am impressed with your effort to guide yourself by the traditional requirements of haiku: 17 syllables, with lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively.  Not that traditions are sacred, but its a good form of self-discipline also.  Haiku is harder to write than it seems.

    Posted by Nader Rider from   on  12/15  at  02:05 PM

  2. Yeah, I don’t often do as I’m told...but with haiku, the form is the challenge.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from   on  12/15  at  02:40 PM

  3. I remember when I had to write Haikus in grammar school.  I hated it.  After reading this post I am inspired to pick up a pen and write one. . .or eight.

    Posted by chris from ill a noise  on  12/16  at  03:40 PM

  4. under coercion
    writing haiku can be dull
    liberate your pen

    Posted by Mickey Z. from   on  12/16  at  03:47 PM

  5. “When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breadth separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”

    - Matsuo Basho (from Paul David Mena’s “Haiku Definitions")

    Posted by Nader Rider from   on  12/16  at  04:49 PM

  6. Beautiful, NR.

    In that spirit, whenever I’d get an e-mail from Sparrow, I would write the haiku reply within a minute or two...to keep it fresh.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from   on  12/16  at  04:55 PM

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