05-13-2013, 12:13 PM
Haven't read to many Haikus but these seem pretty cool. Why write haikus? What is the aesthetic paradigm there?
Cheers for the comments brownlie I'm glad you thought they were pretty cool. pretty cool is all right in my book. As regards why write Haiku, well to be honest I thought I had been writing them for a while without really understanding certain aspects of the requirements of haiku, where in actual fact most of the time I was writing senyru even though I didn't know what they were. But moving away from all the rules, the appeal for me is managing to sum up perfectly a scene in just three lines, and when I manage to write good ones whether it be fluke or talent it's a good feeling. A lot of eastern poetry is in short form and some of my favourite poems are from that region. Check out some modern haiku on the thread about modernism and imagism, I posted some by Richard Wright and at times they say so much.
Cheers again.
I still need to get back to you about synchronicity but not tonight
Cheers for the comments brownlie I'm glad you thought they were pretty cool. pretty cool is all right in my book. As regards why write Haiku, well to be honest I thought I had been writing them for a while without really understanding certain aspects of the requirements of haiku, where in actual fact most of the time I was writing senyru even though I didn't know what they were. But moving away from all the rules, the appeal for me is managing to sum up perfectly a scene in just three lines, and when I manage to write good ones whether it be fluke or talent it's a good feeling. A lot of eastern poetry is in short form and some of my favourite poems are from that region. Check out some modern haiku on the thread about modernism and imagism, I posted some by Richard Wright and at times they say so much.
Cheers again.
I still need to get back to you about synchronicity but not tonight
wae aye man ye radgie