Sunday, August 16, 2009

30 days of HAIKU

I challenge you to come up with a poem a day for the next 30 days! Yeah, you! Bring it on. Mine are gonna be soooooo much better than yours. To make it easy, I am gonna focus mainly on haiku, but if the Muse so inspires me, I might throw something else up there.

As a primer, a haiku is a traditional form of poetry from Japan, consisting strictly of 17 syllables, or "on." Most Japanese haiku translated into English don't retain the 17 syllables so writing in English, some argue isn't really haiku, but that's what we'll go with, as it is our primary language. In the English variation, the poem is usually represented on 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively.

The challenge...begins...now!

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