Curious_in_Cali
Terribly Human
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- Feb 20, 2011
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blanket pinned the hot
sun sweats and squirms out a light
orgasm of birds
sun sweats and squirms out a light
orgasm of birds
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Love's the only room
where you can get completely
lost while standing still.
I would disagree
I've seen brainless and crazy
get lost in a blink!
I would like to shout:
Haiku has three requirements:
1.) There are three lines.
2.) They MUST have:
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
. . . respectively.
2.) a season MUST be mentioned directly or implied. Such as the mention of dying leaves is fall, a frozen bird is winter, a budding branch is spring and waving wheat is summer.
HAIKU is a Fine Art, not a casual plaything.
What about the cut?
Huh? No juxtaposition?
Your words, they lack warmth.
Precisely . . . a reflection of my impatience with cute, low-class attempts at appearing erudite and creative. Your words lack respect for an art form that requires deep introspection and broad consciousness of all aspects of the surrounding world.
You are like the cook who, to save money and time, instead of thinly slicing the onions in rounds, steaming them until reduced to a transparent sludge, machine chops and oil sautées the onions to make Boeuf Bourguignon and then proudly serves the dish, shamelessly pronouncing that name over it.
(I did forget to add one other INDISPENSABLE REQUIREMENT of a Haiku: the final line must be an enlightening surprise, one that produces an !AHA! and transforms the reader . . . not an obvious, expected result of the contrasting juxtaposition of the first two premises.)
EXAMPLE: part way down this page, Ebersmol wrote two attempts a haiku, one far from deserving of that name, the other closer:
Whilst she's held captive
he pierces her singing (6 syllables!)
With brutal commands.
This could have been an honest attempt, thus:
Whilst she's held captive
He shatters her loving song
With brutal commands
And better:
"At first meek, dawn sounds
Rise and quicken until they
Reach a crescendo."
But . . .
(Far better, including a mention of spring or summer in the word "warm"
Dawn sounds warming meek
Rise and quicken until they
Blare in crescendo.
Dear READER, take this haikuby Basho, written in the 18th century, translated by me from Japanese, as a good, valid and enlightening tribute to the form (pause, reflecting, as you should do with all haiku, after the second line, waiting a bit before reading the third.)
Frog from lilly pad
leaps joyous into the air
Ker-plop, watersplash!
(Lilly pads blossom only in the spring.)
Now, let's see if I can produce a BDSM haiku . . .
What said the Sadist
When Masochist begged for more?
Slyly, said he, "No!"