A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.
Well, that said, heres the rules:
1) The Haiku must be original (no plagarizing)! 2) It must fit the weeks theme 3) It must be submitted before the deadline 4) It must be submitted for the contest (no using works previously written) 5) One Submission per user 6) The Same User cannot win twice in a row (but there welcome to submit!)
Hopefully oneday the winner could get a merit...
The Deadline will always be a Wednsday, so the deadline for the first theme will be Wednsday, September 2. The theme is The Pond
Down by the fireside, I come to know its meaning: Peace and Harmony.
Fire is one syllable but two phonemes. Regular haiku writers don't imitate 17-on Japanese haiku because we have an alphabet (26 letters) and consonants and vowels and syllables, and they have a 400 plus character based number of written language systems.
We just can't compete with that. :-)
I made the same mistake, thinking this haiku was 5/7/5: yellowing fields hovering not hovering the nankeen kestrels
But I was firmly told by a well-known haiku writer who works for Microsoft that field is one syllable, but two phonemes. :-)
Here's a 575er from me that did do well though.
another hot day a leaking water pipe stopped by the jackdawâs beak
Alan Summers Honourable Mention, 14th Mainichi Haiku Contest (2010)
