Monday, February 16, 2009 @
8:17 PM
What is a haiku?
It is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 Japanese words, in three metrical phrases with the number of syllabus of 5 for the first line, 7 for the second line, 5 for the last line.
It typically contains a kigo, or seasonal element, that triggers the senses; the best of these triggers more than one sense.
What are the features of haiku?
haiku gives an objective, suggestive, pithy and fleeting picture of its subject. What is said is important but what is unsaid may be more important. The poet may talk of nature but what he is conveying may be some deep feeling, an intuition or a concrete experience of life. Haiku is more concerned with human emotion or with experience than with human acts, and nature is used to reflect or suggest that emotion. Being a poem, haiku is primarily intended to express and evoke emotion.
Samples of haiku
I walk in the park,
The wind is blowing past, fast,
I lost my new hat.
There is a small house,
No-one lives in this small house,
This house is empty.
There is a small mouse,
He lives in a windy mill,
He is so happy.
My Haiku Poems
Love is powerful
Places with lovely couples
It's valentine's day
Love is in the air
Lovely flowers and candies
memorable day
Valentine are here
She bought chocolates for him
He bought her flowers
