This is the last prompt of the second year of Haiku Heights! Two days.. just two more days before our 2nd birthday! Time has flown by so quickly. I've not had so much fun hosting a blog, ever. To see so many of you here each week, sharing and teaching, learning from and enjoying with each other is really satisfying. Thanks for the many memorable haiku over the last two years. And hoping to see more in the coming year as well. Don't forget, in September, it's our third "Heights of Haiku" challenge coming up. I've already started thinking of topics for the month.
Welcome to Haiku Heights, our 2nd birthday prompt, the 154th of our existence. My name is Leo, author of the blog "I Rhyme Without Reason" and your host here. A haiku is something that holds a lot of meaning in the three lines. So our prompt this week, in celebration of the power of the haiku itself, is: MEANING. Have fun!
This prompt will end at on 28th JULY 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, or at most, 17 syllables. If you wish to follow a rigid structure for your haiku, you can use a 5-7-5 syllable form, or a 3-5-3 syllable form.
- 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.
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.
Claude Lopez Ginisty will be starting us off on our third year's adventure, with his suggestion FORGET-ME-NOT. being our 155th prompt.
Claude Lopez Ginisty will be starting us off on our third year's adventure, with his suggestion FORGET-ME-NOT. being our 155th prompt.
11 comments:
Happy Happy Birthday Haiku Heights :)
Happy Anniversary Haiku Heights ~
This is a wonderful challenge because meaning can mean many things ~ The most important thing for haiku writer is to capture one clear idea and message in three meaningful lines ~
Happy Anniversary to Haiku Heights and congratulations to you Leo for your dedication and hard work in putting all this together week after week.
Woah! Happy anniversary, Haiku Heights!
I'm so glad to be a part of this occasion. Just two haiku old but I can feel the excitement. :) Yayyy for the many more anniversaries to come. :)
I also wanted to say that I am not able to post my comments on any of the Wordpress blogs. They ask for a password. What am I supposed to do after that? Any and all help appreciated. :)
Two choices for that:
Log in to your account at http://en.gravatar.com/ before you go on the WP blog to comment.. :)
or
Use an e-mail ID that's not having any gravatar associated with it.
Thank you for the reply, Leo! I tried both of them but it doesnt work.
I logged in to my gravatar a/c but it still didnt let my comment publish.
I tried to log out of every ID and logged in to an ID that hadnt got gravatar associated with it. No luck!
Btw the profile I use to comment on blogs does not have gravatar on it.
What am I supposed to do peeps... Please help!
I realize now how many WP site users we have.
Vaishali, don't log in :) Just come to my blog, type your comment into the box, put any email id that doesn't have a Gravatar acct or doesn't have an old WP account associated with it, in the e-mail box, and your name in the name box, ur URL in the website box.. and click go.
Sometimes, your comment will be gone to moderation.. but it won't block your comment from that e-mail. I've tried it :D so I'm sure it'll work.
Yes, yes, yes it worked. Wooohoooo!
I'm SO relieved. It was a torture to be not able to express my thoughts on the b'ful haiku out here.
Thanks a ton, Leo! Off to the feedback.. :)
Happy Anniversary and Best Wishes, Leo! Thank you for the lovely prompt. Haiku is all about deep meaning. Enjoy my share. :)
Happy Birthday to Haiku Heights. Congratulations Leo and all the haiku poets for the wonderful and beautiful journey. Best best wishes to future journey. Lots of wishes from 'Gurukripa' on post 'Meaning of Life'.
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