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
So we aren't including the shimo-no-ku? I always thought that full Tankas read better than the Haiku. Might be fun to get a thread going where we write Rengas.
Second verse is eight syllables.
I thought that the form could sometimes be flexible on the count. I know that one of Basho's poems has a 6-7-5 pattern.
Anyhow.
Mind draws in, and holds Slips into solipsism Never to release
So we aren't including the shimo-no-ku? I always thought that full Tankas read better than the Haiku. Might be fun to get a thread going where we write Rengas.
The Tanka is an older form of Japanese poetry from which the modern Haiku originated. A Tanka is a 31 syllable poem that reads 5-7-5-7-7. The two seven syllable lines at the end are called the Shimo-No-Ku, or "Lower Phrase." The first 3 lines (5-7-5) are called the Kami-No-Ku, or "Upper Phrase." A Renga is a collaborative poem in which one person writes a Kami-No-Ku, and a second person responds to it with a Shimo-No-Ku, completing the Tanka.
