#150 - SUPPORT

We're a month away from our second birthday. My name is Leo, author of the blog "I Rhyme Without Reason" and your host here. This is our 150th theme for your haiku inspiration: SUPPORT. Today, we wish to honor not just one person, but all of you wonderful people together, who make this blog tick. It's your support that makes me continue walking along with you. Without the support of each one of you, we wouldn't have gotten this far. Thank you. Have fun!

This prompt will end at on 30th JUNE 2012 at 1PM IST.

These are the general rules here. I rephrase them just so no confusion exists.

1. Write a haiku on the prompt given and post in your blog.

2. Link back to Haiku Heights either with the code given in the bottom bar here, or with a hyperlink.

3. Enter your name and link into the Linky widget. (It should be the post link, and not your blog link in general)

4. Read and enjoy as many of the other writers as well. 

• Some of my readers, and new writers at Haiku Heights had asked me how to write a proper Haiku.
• Haiku is Japanese poetry form that has three meaningful lines which are complete and reflecting nature.
• Haiku have syllabic limitations as well. Syllables and words aren't the same thing. For e.g. the single word "traditional" would have four syllables since it's pronounced "tra-di-tio-nal".
• A haiku is more showing than telling. It brings the meaning to you without actually expressing it.
• A haiku has under 17 syllables, a traditional haiku having eleven or seventeen syllables, in a strict 3-5-3 or 5-7-5 format.
• You can write either a haiku, senryu (haiku related to emotions), haiga (haiku on picture) or haibun (story with haiku).

We wish to celebrate the haikai forms through your words. some poets are straying away from the Haiku format so kindly stay within the Haiku limitations. I know it is difficult but very challenging too!!

Thank you. for more details READ HERE.

Please note: I will remove the link if the post is just a random one or another form.

Please note: The plural of Haiku is still Haiku and not Haikus.

Please note: We at Haiku Heights only need the haiku to be reflective of the topic. You need not actually use the word in your haiku.

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A small request to all our friends on the Blogger platform. If you could kindly turn off the word verification on your blogs, it'd be a lot easier for others to comment on your blog. The new CAPTCHA type of verification is quite muddling, and it's confusing even the actual bloggers as well.

I also wish to thank those who have been helping me by giving suggestions for prompts. Most of your suggestions will be put to use. However, till the prompt on July 21st, 2012, the topics for the succeeding will week will not be revealed on that prompt, and we'll be thanking some silent supporters of this space with those prompts! Thanks for being a part of my haiku journey, and for understanding this. - Leo.