Welcome to Haiku Heights and Prompt #157. We go right to the soul this time... What does that word mean to you? Does poetry have it? Can you reveal your thoughts on it, through a haiku and share it with us this week?! My name is Leo, author of the blog "I Rhyme Without Reason" and your host here. Maharukh of the blog "Metamorphosis of Life" suggests the theme SOUL to write a haiku. Have fun!
This prompt will end at on 18th AUGUST 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.
- 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.
Jaideep's suggestion, GREEN. shall be our 158th prompt starting August 18th.
Jaideep's suggestion, GREEN. shall be our 158th prompt starting August 18th.
4 comments:
I can not help posting a favorite old classic poem for you--though not a haiku.
Invictus
by William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
sorry i cannot find a way to comment on wordpress blogs. Great haikus here. thanks for choosing and sharing this beautiful prompt!
Dulce, you just have to log in to http://www.wordpress.com/ using your Gravatar credentials before you comment on WP.com blog :) or use an e-mail ID of yours that does not have a Gravatar.
Haiku and the visual arts truly go hand in hand. Blessings!
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