6 hours ago
(9 hours ago)busker Wrote:(10 hours ago)matsunosuperfan Wrote:It’s not pedantry at all(11 hours ago)busker Wrote: “Sad and heavy” is the sort of abstraction that is the opposite of haikuthanks for reading. If I write more of these I will not share them here, probably. all the feedback has just been pedantry about what haiku traditionally do.
Rain falls in the street
My dog runs:
I smile.
Would be closer to the spirit, though it too is horrible
Haiku exists to exploit brevity and condensation as devices
Merely writing 3 lines doesn’t do anything unless you’re able to pack a punch
So no, your attempts at haiku have so far been terrible. Nothing to do with dogma
Describing dogma and then saying "it's not dogma" is a neat trick

