Write your best extended haiku.
minimum 10 haikus per poem maximum 30
every stanza must be part of 1 larger story (no random haikus about different things)
-read my poem "the cherry blossom" for an example.
-swearing is fine, no sticky caps, prewrites allowed
what i am looking for is the poem to have many meanings
and extra point to rhyming
in the authors notes briefly explain your poem and what meaning(s) you were trying to express
anyone else telling me what the hell the a haiku is can just stop and save your breath. i do not care of the definition of a haiku and save me your righteous definition BS cuz i dont care. if you have a problem with rhyming haikus then thats your problem, don't join the contest i dont care. poets think outside the box and if you cant do that your not a freakin poet. go write poems that are about vampires and other stupid BS.
minimum 10 haikus per poem maximum 30
every stanza must be part of 1 larger story (no random haikus about different things)
-read my poem "the cherry blossom" for an example.
-swearing is fine, no sticky caps, prewrites allowed
what i am looking for is the poem to have many meanings
and extra point to rhyming
in the authors notes briefly explain your poem and what meaning(s) you were trying to express
anyone else telling me what the hell the a haiku is can just stop and save your breath. i do not care of the definition of a haiku and save me your righteous definition BS cuz i dont care. if you have a problem with rhyming haikus then thats your problem, don't join the contest i dont care. poets think outside the box and if you cant do that your not a freakin poet. go write poems that are about vampires and other stupid BS.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on May 9, 2007
- Rewards: Gold: 425, Silver: 40, Bronze: 3
- Final notes: great job guys
Contest Winners
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During autumn days / Gently falling to the ground / Forms a stream of leaves / / The tree once blooming / A time for new beginnings / seasons now changing / / Leaves changing colour / from green to differeby th3sl4y3r 43 lines, 8 comments, on May 1 4:51 PM 2007. In life, love, haiku, nature, thoughts
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by musiconmymind 3 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 17 9:24 PM 2007. In Contemporary• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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We get by, letters / and short conversations...but / Even that is so small. / / Eight, insinuate... / maybe we aren't brave, Only / Time will show us True / / My heart hollow, fill / it with thoughts of Thby Hiatus 38 lines, 2 comments, on May 2 12:13 PM 2007. In Haiku Chain• Commented on by judge.
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Why smile sweetly, you know whats underneath, you know he gives you dirty looks, but if in his heart there is some light, and whether he just doing it for his mates, Guess What, You Just Dont Knowby dc 960 0 lines, 1 comment, on May 4 10:27 AM 2007• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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haikus DONT rhyme.. they NEVER do.
find some info. -
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Haikus rhyme in an open mind.
Poetic license walks outside the box. -
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see.. rose tatoo is right.
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Definition of Haiku
1) An unrhymed Japanese poem recording the essence of a moment. Nature is combined with human nature. It usually consists of three lines of 5/7/5 (5 onji in the first line, 7 onji in the second line, and 5 onji in the third line) totaling seventeen onji.
2) A foreign adaptation of 1, usually written in three lines totaling 17 syllables or LESS.
As you will notice, there are two definitions. Definition #1 is where many get confused. People tend to confuse onji with the English syllable.
This is like comparing apples to oranges. Onji cannot be compared to syllables.
Unless you are Japanese, have been writing Japanese, or speak fluent Japanese, you will be writing definition #2.
The difference between the two is that in definition #2, you will be writing three lines of poetry, 17 syllables or LESS.
This means you do not have to write three lines of 5/7/5 (5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and 5 syllables in the third line). You may do so, if you can do it well without fluff words (many can't). If you write 5/7/5, that does not make your poem more of a haiku than someone who does not write 5/7/5.
An ideal haiku should be short/long/short - but that depends on the haiku itself. There is nothing wrong with 5/7/5, if that is what you want to write. However, the majority of modern haiku in most of the journals are not 5/7/5. That doesn't mean that it doesn't have its place.
HAIKU SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Inc.
Report of the Definitions Committee
Adopted at the Annual Meeting of the Society, New York City, 18 September 2004
Official Definitions of Haiku
HAIKU
Definition: A haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature or the season intuitively linked to the human condition.
Notes: Most haiku in English consist of three unrhymed lines of seventeen or fewer syllables, with the middle line longest, though today's poets use a variety of line lengths and arrangements. In Japanese a typical haiku has seventeen "sounds" (on) arranged five, seven, and five. (Some translators of Japanese poetry have noted that about twelve syllables in English approximates the duration of seventeen Japanese on.) Traditional Japanese haiku include a "season word" (kigo), a word or phrase that helps identify the season of the experience recorded in the poem, and a "cutting word" (kireji), a sort of spoken punctuation that marks a pause or gives emphasis to one part of the poem. In English, season words are sometimes omitted, but the original focus on experience captured in clear images continues. The most common technique is juxtaposing two images or ideas (Japanese rensô
. Punctuation, space, a line-break, or a grammatical break may substitute for a cutting word. Most haiku have no titles, and metaphors and similes are commonly avoided. (Haiku do sometimes have brief prefatory notes, usually specifying the setting or similar facts; metaphors and similes in the simple sense of these terms do sometimes occur, but not frequently. A discussion of what might be called "deep metaphor" or symbolism in haiku is beyond the range of a definition. Various kinds of "pseudohaiku" have also arisen in recent years;
you don't know what kind of contest you are holding on. Haiku does not rhymm and if youare trying to force your contestant to write a series of haiku with rhymming then you are not looking for haiku but a very short short poems....
btw i read your "cherry blossoms" and i don't know whats the connection of it within your poem since what you had described there was a sort of love story and a sort of war...goodluck and try to scan all about "Haiku"...小百合 -
Apples and oranges...
I'm all growed up now
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you guys are retarded
you dont have the depth to think outside the box
i dont follow definitions and i definatly dont listen to stupid POS's who can't even write decent poetry -
Wow! That Gold is a shocker! Thank-You So much! Congratz to the winners and thank-YOU for the contest
~Ryan~
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