by 1 member and 44 followers It is impossible to single out any current style, format, or subject matter as definitive.
Some of the more common practices in English include: three lines of up to 17 syllables; a season word (kigo); a cut or kire (sometimes indicated by a punctuation mark) to compare two images implicitly.
English haiku do not adhere to the strict syllable count found in Japanese haiku, and the typical length of haiku appearing in the main English-language journals is 10–14 syllables.
Some haiku poets are concerned with their haiku being expressed in one breath and the extent to which their haiku focus on "showing" as opposed to "telling". This is the genius of haiku using an economy of words to paint a multi-tiered painting, without "telling all". Or as Matsuo Bashō puts it, "The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of."
India
A paranoid lover, with an overwhelming desire for the things unknown - Nevertheless, refusing to promise any coherence echoing from the unplumbed territories of my …
I hope that my writings touch others as Poetry and Timeless Prosodies have touched me. aka: MoonFlower "Fluer de Luna" Currently recovering from a traumatic …
England
I'm fairly new to poetry; hardly written any before....I am mainly a prose writer- flash fictions and working on a novel. Yet, upon listening to …
Faerieland and in my head
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M/Everywhere
Sky above, earth below, flame upon water within me. Depending on moment, I range between 13,000 years old and 5 years old. (Cover image credit: …