Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumBird and Bernie Haiku
small bird alights on
a future to believe in
lifting hearts higher
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)It's like a limerick but kinder
Donkees
(31,326 posts)The aesthetic and spiritual "discipline" of haiku begins by the poet trying to adhere to its requirements of length, lines, and syllables, as well as to its other poetic conventions of form and content. What a haiku poet has to say about a specific, momentary observed aspect of nature (including human nature), must be condensed, distilled, and disciplined into three lines, each of a prescribed number of syllables, for a total of just 17 syllables. Note Well: Seventeen syllables is the average number of syllables that can be uttered in one breath.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)I have written tens of just rhyming poems...which no one likes nowadays...which is probably why I did them.
But I do love Haiku, as long as someone else does it!
mak3cats
(1,573 posts)...it's more difficult, in my opinion. Haven't written much in my older years - maybe I should take it up again. Might be a good stress reliever.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)I am afraid I lost control of my rhymes..I would LOVE to 'hear' yours...are you in the poetry forum?
mak3cats
(1,573 posts)...but I'll check it out. Thank you!
(That's all I'll say here - I don't want to hijack Donkees' thread. I love reciting my old poems, but they're almost embarrassing now. Rather like bubble gum music...)
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Ino
(3,366 posts)But I do love haiku, too
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)mak3cats
(1,573 posts)...I did not know about the "one breath" aspect. It makes sense.
appalachiablue
(41,102 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)there is a future
a little birdie told me
believe in or not
mak3cats
(1,573 posts)...I won't attempt to match yours (it should stand alone), but I'll share one of mine that I titled "The Gravity Game"
Gravity is fun!
Oh, you wanted that up here?
Buy another one.
(I have cats. Can you tell?)