Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Everybody was haiku fighting...
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 on from 12/15 at 02:05 PMYeah, I don’t often do as I’m told...but with haiku, the form is the challenge.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 12/15 at 02:40 PMI 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 on from ill a noise 12/16 at 03:40 PMunder coercion
writing haiku can be dull
liberate your penPosted by Mickey Z. on from 12/16 at 03:47 PM“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 on from 12/16 at 04:49 PMBeautiful, 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. on from 12/16 at 04:55 PM
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