This article was born because of an article published by @CrazyInsane titled Organorum (Haiku Challenge).
Haiku is well-known for its 5/7/5 rule. Historically, haiku is derivative of the Japanese hokku. Hokku is an opening part or stanza of a larger Japanese poem known as renga. But eventually, writers began to write them as a stand-alone poem. Traditional hokku is meant to comment on the season or surroundings of the authors and create contrasting imagery separated by a kireji or "cutting word". However, this element is not always included in a non-Japanese haiku or free-form haiku by modern writers.
Below are the haiku I managed to write. Please note the last time I remembered writing a haiku was ten years ago. 😅🤪
Beach
Crystal clear waters
Gentle waves play in the bay
I felt a drizzle
Sunset
Sun is setting down
Sky is painted red-orange
But I feel so blue
Park
Sun shines so brightly
Flowers bloom so tenderly
Child plays cheerfully
I only made three and these were not enough for me. My goal was to make five. 😅 But it's 3:05 am here and my eyes are begging me to sleep. 😴 So good night everyone.
For any reaction or correction, please feel free to drop it in the comment section.
Lead image is from Unsplash.
Thank you for reading. 💕
-Gwenie
Yeah , I also read some other haiku which contains a 5-3-5 or 3-5-3 scheme, as long as it does not exceed the 17 syllable japanese haiku style, doing a 5-7-5 scheme on english would be kind of fun and a tribute in a way to mimic the old original japanese style haiku 💝
Mimicking is done in every language except English. As I understood there are 4 or perhaps 6 styles how to write but if it comes to it a poet develops his own style. If not it's the end of creativity. 🍀
I've checked it. I think that challenge is fun and will really wake up our inner creativity.
Hmm. I think it would be fun if we do that also here in read.cash. 🤔
Everything can be done if the good writers and in this case poets are found and reunited. They must be there somewhere.
That was good 💝 also you can try even longer haikus that details more on the story , but that was really great by following the 3 line style,anyhow this was really good, I'm not good at it either but for refresher this is a 👍
Yay. Thank you. 😃
I actually tried to stick to the traditional way and include a kireji but it was too hard. 😂 The third one does not have it and I am not sure if I got it right in the first two.
Nice article
Thank you. 💕
I have always been curious about Haiku but not sure how to go about it. Thank you for the introduction paragraph. We can pretty much write about anything and everything right? I like yours. Simple and easy to understand. Some poems and Haikus are too deep for my understanding.
Thank you for the compliments. 💕
Yeah, modern haiku can be about anything and everything. ^-^
I joined a Haiku challenge on Steemit. It was about writing a haiku about a photo given. Perhaps you should try that too.
In English they didn't stick to the 5-7-5 rule because it was too easy or too obvious it🤔 Well, I forgot.
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