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
When night turns to day, Dire darkness, blinding light; Blessed twilight hour.
Hail Azura, Queen of Dawn and Dusk ^^ I just tried to get away from the typical good/evil schemata associated with the Yin Yang, and stress the gray area between both, rather than the white dot in the black half and vice versa. Hope it is still admissible. ..'blessed' is one syllable, right?
Are you observing any cross-cultural conversions of grammatical traditions when judging these haiku? Form, structure?
Ultimately, I check first to see how the haiku are set up. It's a given to know that it's 5/7/5 for a proper set up. Form is important in the aspect that you are trying to convey to the judge what your haiku is about in a specific setting of your choice. Throughout participation, I've seen a few that were really struggling with how to present their entree. It's gotten a bit better over the months though. I've looked at some and felt like things would have been better if things were interchanged, different versions of words used to better agree with the rest of the line, all that good stuff! A second core area would be if the haiku are connected well or if they are broken up in the right areas, using commas, semi-colons, or what-not. Is the haiku supposed to be smooth-sailing, or does it feel like breaking parts up with punctuation would be best? A haiku is very limited in terms of text, so I give major points for those who can project their entree well by using various literary elements, such as imagery, alliteration, etc. Anyone can set up a haiku and make it fit the theme, but it takes skill to be creative with it!
I'm very, very happy to be back on Ag, and couldn't have done so without dropping by my good old contest. After weeks of waiting for my new laptop to be shipped to me, I'm glad to inform everyone that I'm back and at it again. I know I've been away for quite a while, without even giving any news - how rude can I be!? - but now I'm well, in health and totally able to claim back my judging duties again. Of course, I've been away for so long now that I expect my authority has just waned away so I'll just leave the judge in place decide whether he's tired enough of this strenuous job to quit or not. If not, I'll gladly wait until he is done and want to pass the torch.
No pressure intended of course, I guess I'm just engrossed in the enthusiasm of coming back ^^. Anyways, it's not like I expect the person in charge to just let me take back my post after being away for so long .
