TheBanyanTree: Haiku challenge

[Sachet]

What a fun idea!

I love haiku's.

They can be obscure...so much so that only you know their intended 
meaning. Or just clear enough for one other.

Or sometimes they are for everyone to enjoy.... their whimsy and 
cleverly playful jumble of words.

A haiku always challenges me to search for the exact combination of 
words to convey my meaning.

Love it, love it love it! I can't wait to see what others create!

Great challenge, Wolfie!


....Sachet


Laura wrote:
> I challenge everyone subscribed to The Banyan Tree to try out a haiku.  There are a few of us 
> here who really like them, for whatever reason, but I hate for us to hog all the fun.  So - give it a 
> try!  Just one, please?
> Not sure exactly what a haiku is?  Senior English a long time ago, and for whatever reason you 
> missed poetry day anyway?  Well, here is some of what Wikipedia has to say about haiku:
> In English, haiku are usually written in three lines to equate to the three metrical phrases of a 
> haiku in Japanese that consist of five, seven, and five on (the Japanese count morae, which differ 
> from English-language syllables; for example, the word "haiku" itself counts as three on in 
> Japanese (ha-i-ku), but two syllables in English (hai-ku); writing seventeen syllables in English 
> produces a poem that is actually quite a bit longer, with more content, than a haiku in Japanese). 
> Because most Japanese words are polysyllabic, with very short sounds (like the syllables in the 
> three-syllable English word "radio", but unlike the one-syllable words "thought" or "stressed"), 
> the seventeen sounds of a Japanese haiku carry less information than would seventeen syllables. 
> Consequently, writing seventeen syllables in English typically produces a poem that is 
> significantly "longer" than a traditional Japanese haiku. As a result, the great majority of literary 
> haiku writers in English write their poems using about ten to fourteen syllables, with no formal 
> pattern.
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> *   Possibly the best known Japanese haiku is Basho's "old pond" haiku: 
>   (note from Laura- chinese characters did not paste, darn it.)
> This separates into on as: 
> furuike ya 
> ( ) 
> (fu/ru/i/ke ya): 5 
> kawazu tobikomu 
> ( ) 
> (ka/wa/zu to/bi/ko/mu): 7 
> mizu no oto 
> (  ) 
> (mi/zu no o/to): 5 
> Roughly translated:
> old pond 
> a frog jumps 
> the sound of water 
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> See?  Easy! Even the "rules" are flexible.  More like "guidelines" really.  ;)  Go on, give it a try!!
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