How To Use Haiku In A Sentence
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A tanka is a 31 syllable poem that pre-dates the Haiku.
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I am listening to your day-tales, though I wonder that this time might be better spent mistranslating health warnings from foreign cigarettes and pasting them to a gallery wall or, perhaps, composing a biro haiku on the arch of a foot, proclaiming:
Day 9: Better Spent Time
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Her poetic styles vary from haiku to streetwise dramatic monologue, using the conventions of ‘standard’ English, as well as the defiance of Ebonics.
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Their e-mails were 'tortured haikus of indirectness', so he told me.
Relationships Of Mutual Mistrust
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Haiku a Japanese classic ditty by the 17 components of a divergence in pronunciation.
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I'm having the most enormous fun sifting through the mound of accumulated poems and haiku, bringing order and accord where there was none.
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We asked you to submit your bestest most chucklesome haiku about the fact that Abi Titmuss had become good pals with David Beckham on the set of Goal 2.
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In class they warmed up with haiku written outside in the garden (it was a hot evening).
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It tastes of deepening autumn and makes me long for one or two haiku [seventeen-syllable Japanese poems to capture the feeling.
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Many Japanese haiku were written as one-line poems (written vertically).
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He took this opening verse, the hokku, and refined it to become what is now known as the haiku.
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It's an interesting avenue for me to explore, perhaps giving me a bridge between my more orthodox poetry and the haiku I enjoy writing so much.
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The forms vary from open verse to haiku to a sonnet sequence to a villanelle.
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Malagasy · Mpitoraka bilaogin'ny herinandro: Haute Haiku avy any Kenya
Global Voices in English » Blogger of the Week: Haute Haiku from Kenya
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Three spins of godawful panpipe muzak versions of Wonderful Tonight and Britney Spears was away; and we all know what happened next – needless to say it involved bald Britney Spears going loopy-doo, a bewildering million-dollar Britney Spears hair sale and a bunch of kickass Britney haikus.
Britney Spears Gets Rehab Advice From, Um, Daniel Baldwin
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Judah's got a big heart, is dorkishly sweet the HAIKU ♥ and his encyclopedia knowledge of everything, and his relationship with Genna makes my heart melt.
Archive 2009-11-01
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I can't quite say when I started writing haikus.
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You may still comment, but if you choose to do so please write in haiku.
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Haiku, meaning a Japanese verse of three short, unrhymed lines, is an entirely appropriate title for Songdog's second album.
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They could add descriptive words, phrases or sentences, or they could write a poem, haiku, alliteration, metaphor, or perhaps words from a song.
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Eda's comment translates as one of the most beautiful run-on haiku's I've ever read:
Hell in a Handbasket: More Disturbing Signs
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While I had taught the simple five-seven-five syllable poems in my classroom for years, I was unaware of what it really meant to write haiku.
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The confluence of haiku and jazz in his poems is based on the expression of natural, spontaneous responses to human life.
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News peer reputation survey, generated a spirited critique by David Giacalone on on the f/k/a blog, which is dedicated to "one-breath poetry & breathless punditry with haikuEsq," for engaging in "bad neology":
Law Porn, Law School Puffspam, Haiku, and Woodpeckers
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He likened text message poetry to haikus, the ancient Japanese art of writing three-line poems.
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The puerility and sloth of the students, the pure nothingness of the curriculum: it's all sham and mummery, gutless as a haiku poem.
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It's the same kind of aesthetic that goes for sonnets or haikus.
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I chose flamenco thinking it was the embodiment of wild, anarchic abandonment built on unstructured improvisational outpourings and learned that el arte is as strictly regimented as haiku.
A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy
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I've been quite bored today, so I have been trying to remember an haiku that an old flatmate of mine and I wrote a few years back.
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It's like writing haikus - it's such an exact and disciplined form.
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At 8:30pm tonight on the Madison Square Garden Network Archives show they are showing an old westling match starring Andre the Giant and Haiku for the 1980's.
Did you feel that 5.4 earthquake?
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And at its best, its writing has the lyricism of Keats, the precision of Williams, or the echoic qualities of haiku.
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Write a haiku in the Comments section with the words, "omnivore" and "fox" and enter to win a pair of tickets to the SOLD OUT 8 p.m. event at the Herbst Theater on Friday.
SFist
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Loved the poem, Snob, but technically it's not haiku--it's a senryu.
Ride to Work, Work to Ride: Living the Dream
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The haiku and senryu section has some lovely offerings.
To Read: Modern Haiku, Summer 2006
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There's also haiku, written by my 12 year old son as a homework assignment recently.
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We'd learned to write limericks in language arts last week, and today, we were going to write haikus.
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The essence of our poetic tradition is to be found instead in the unadorned language of the Manyōshū and the manful haiku of Buson!
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » A History of Modern Japanese Literary Criticism: Act One, Scene 1
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Snarky Chris' story, "Godspeed," is up, as is another honorable mention poem from our contest, this one a haiku titled "Open.
DKA Magazine Stats for November 2006
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Haiku is unrhymed Japanese poetry consisting of 17 syllables, usually written in 3 lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively.
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There are several specific and essential qualities that make a poem a haiku.
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Even so, the beauty and casual vibe of the place inspired us to ask around about other nudie spots, and a woman we met in the parking lot suggested that we check out the Hale Akua Shangri-La, just past Haiku on Maui's north shore.
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Recent additions to the programme, such as a kids' festival, are among Spence's proudest achievements, the little Govan boy scribbling haiku poems on his school jotters clearly never far from his mind.
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Many of those in More to Remember are written in such fixed forms as the haiku, triolet, dramatic monologue, and sonnet while others experiment with slant rhyme, indentation, and the blues form.
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The poem can utilize any poetic form (haiku, rhyming couplets, limerick, free verse, etc.) but it cannot exceed six lines (LeBron's jersey is #6).
John Lundberg: Enduring the LeBron James Poetry Contest
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? ralph murre | a few haiku in autumn
Ralph murre | a few haiku in autumn « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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We must reform hokku — we shall henceforth call it haiku!
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » A History of Modern Japanese Literary Criticism: Act One, Scene 1
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I'm reminded of a haiku I wrote a couple of years back that I think might describe this state of affairs.
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Making haiku is a most effective way of exploring ways of expressing abstract concepts in concrete language, of pulling out the essence of a feeling and making it into something unique.
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Haiku is contemplative poetry and is characterised by spontaneity and lightness.
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While old hokku avoided some topics such as romance, sex, and overt violence, contemporary haiku often deals specifically with such themes.
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Both free verse and rhymed poetry styles are studied, including cinquain, haiku, tanka, rhopalic, echo and refrain poems, acrostics, alphabet and dictionary poems.
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All I could do was sit back and watch as they made what sounded like haikus behind impassive masks and continually struck awkward poses.
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An exquisite lyricism informs her maturing vision and technique as she distills emotion into ever more restrictive forms: sonnets and ballads, tankas and haikus.
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Readers are invited to continue to submit football haiku or heroic couplets.
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The authors, who claim to have read all 81 of the great works they limed, lovingly re-imagined everything from Homer, Shakespeare, and Joyce to Tolstoy, Austen and Rowling in the Twitter haiku.
Emmett Rensin: 'Twitterature': U Chicago Undergrad Duo Inadvertently End Western Civilization With New Book
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I've seen people twitter in haiku only.
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She hides in the airing cupboard for hours, writes endless haikus until she falls asleep from exhaustion and succumbs to screaming fits and bouts of a strange fever.
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From prose through haiku-like passages, prime lyric moments, epic adventures and noir scenes, to what seem to be autobiographical insights, the volume accretes a sense of absurd fullness of vision.
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Haiku originated as a simple verse form used to entertain the Japanese upper class.
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In a moment of summer madness I sat down to write a handful of haiku to capture the feeling of summer, of sunshine, of long days and longer evenings.
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It was only in the 19th century that the hokku became haiku and was stripped of its connection to the renga.
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And here's a haiku that a co-worker wrote just for me!
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In the book, he explores various Japanese cultural phenomena including bunraku, pachinko and, haiku.
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Once my students achieved success with these tasks, I would surprise them by reading aloud samples of haiku, as well as other formula verse, such as tanka and cinquain.
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Although some informed readers may look at these three-line poems and assume they are haiku, I do not call them haiku, because they are more personal and more earthy.
Washing Dishes in the Ancient Village / Lavando platos en el antiguo pueblo: A Few Comments
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They could add descriptive words, phrases or sentences, or they could write a poem, haiku, alliteration, metaphor, or perhaps words from a song.
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They could add descriptive words, phrases or sentences, or they could write a poem, haiku, alliteration, metaphor, or perhaps words from a song.
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This second work dealt with many biblical themes and reflected the influence of Jewish culture, as well as imagism and Japanese haiku.
Babette Deutsch.
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The poems and haiku section is particularly priceless.
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From that humble source, Latimer produced a group of haiku-like collages - all hard-edged and iconic - that also manage to be poignant.
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This is becoming almost as much of a bind as those haikus.
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This sets the stage for a listing of stanzaic forms moving from the couplet, through the tercet to finally arriving at the ode and unusual forms such as the sequidilla and the haiku, etc.
THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO
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This haiku (a 17 syllable epigrammatic verse) by one of Japan's greatest poets seems at first glance to have little to it.
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There are varied poetic forms, including narratives, jazz poems, slam poems, sestina, haiku, couplets and sonnets.
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One early exercise that I'm still inordinately proud of was the instruction to ‘write a haiku using only the words you can find on the racing page of the morning paper.’
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I love reading books, taking long walks in the park, and writing haikus. (this actually is a haiku)
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This is not your old English teacher's haiku, or some tired set of elegies from a bygone era.
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It's not surprising to discover that this famous Japanese novelist from the Neiji period also wrote haiku, since these three long short stories are equally unintelligible.
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Haiku and senryu are similar in form, but haiku are about the natural world.
Ride to Work, Work to Ride: Living the Dream
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Everybody speaking in this kind of haiku gives writers a new structure to play with.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cook's first collection presents a series of experiments with formal structures; standard sonnets, quatrains, and the more recently standard haiku and ghazal as well.
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They also mention how kamikaze pilots would write haiku before their final mission.
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Once my students achieved success with these tasks, I would surprise them by reading aloud samples of haiku, as well as other formula verse, such as tanka and cinquain.
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Haiku written before 1892 are more correctly known as hokku, the beginning verse of hakkai poetry.
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Outgoing chief Jonathan Schwartz announced his farewell with a haiku tweet.
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But in my beginning classes, the first thing they have to learn until they get to that point where I see they have it under control is blues, blues-sonnets, regular sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, haikus, tankas, and odes.
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He said that it was a revelatory moment that called out for a haiku.
Times, Sunday Times
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My poetic skills were not up to constructing dactyllic hexameters, and I had already settled on the haiku form.
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You've mentioned the haiku-like or telegram-like quality of word balloons in comics.
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Forget that crappy $100 laptop they are working on for 3rd world countries, add a usb keyboard and mouse to this sucker with some good free software. clackerd says: neura, what are you a lieutenant in the shame-shame-shame police? jesus, you rant and bitch like a little girl. i bet you wear your hair in a pony tail. if i had more time, i would have formatted this as a haiku. (or set of haikus.) cheers, chris
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech
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While looking for something this evening, I stumbled on a box of old high school documents and had nearly forgotten these haiku I wrote in tenth grade:
Archive 2009-02-01
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The image has the swiftness of haiku, with its undetermined but focused looking.
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Above all, her fine pieces of poetry show, as do classic Japanese haiku and tanka, the unity and harmony of all things, the sensibility that human beings and nature are one and inseparable.
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Your mission: write a haiku about your favorite rock band.
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He is a devout Catholic with mild, donnish quirks. He writes haiku poems and reads Shakespeare for pleasure.
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But didn't the Japanese perfect this several thousand years ago with their haiku poems?
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All you have to do to win is a scribble out a haiku (that's an ancient form of Japanese Poetry) about a celebrity of our choice.
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Grate ohaiku, catena – opened up large skerry imij in mai hed!
Iz ok. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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There are varied poetic forms, including narratives, jazz poems, slam poems, sestina, haiku, couplets and sonnets.
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I particularly like the clatter of wind through bamboo she evokes in the fifth haiku.
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Another simile comes to mind when thinking about the comparison: The haiku were slim, efficient tidy bodies — healthy, lacking in ostentation and self-assured about themselves.
And What of the Haiku? : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Simply write the best haiku about this week's news story.
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Awesome movie, 100% respectful to the books. lo_diggs: Basking in the afterglow of a Scott pilgrim vs the world nerdgasm beefyfunk: [non-haiku] saw Scott Pilgrim vs. the World focus group tonight, great flick (to-be) (Love Aubrey Plaza!)
Early Buzz: 15 More Reviews From Another Test Screening of Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | /Film
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Of course, we're not sticking religiously to the Japanese haiku rule which states that the composition must contain at least one seasonal reference.
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The Nobel-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe has said that the modern Japanese prose of Tanizaki and Kawabata finds its roots in the ancient short verse of tanka and haiku—forms marked by brevity, elegance and highly refined naturalism.
Rebel Ascendant
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Just remember the golden rule of haiku: five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables.
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All I could do was sit back and watch as they made what sounded like haikus behind impassive masks and continually struck awkward poses.
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It contains hundreds of entries in the Haiku form currently enjoying a renaissance in hip literature circles as well as epigrams, concrete poems and other works similarly concise in their nature.
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Everything was bogus, from the place cards which were love haikus, to the guy swanking round with a bottle of absinthe saying he'd been given it by Johnny so that everyone asked ‘Johnny who? allowing him to sniff ‘Depp, of course’.
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The haiku's instantaneity is also a limit.
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The phrases evoke both the portentousness of a movie script and the gnomic meter of haiku.
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Ai rote sumthin shorl an, ai hoep mildlee amewsing – did mai best – but Jack rote a whole four part haiku – difference ov less tahn a minute.
Ok, iz can ‘splain… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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And the other good news is I had a set of four SF/SFF haiku printed in Hahaku a collection of senryu-scifaiku with a smile, edited by Teri Santitoro and published by Sam's Dot Publishing, and best of all I got paid for them!
Archive 2007-08-01
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How far, for instance, do Middle-March and an imagist haiku resemble each other?
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Almost any form is acceptable - limerick, haiku, free verse, couplets, anything but epic poetry.
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Equally joyous are the sounds of children’s voices from the elementary school down the street, raised in excitment at the promise of warmer days to play outside, and spring vacation coming soon. eager young voices all a-twitter on the playground for more sounds of spring in haiku, click here
One Deep Breath-Spring Sounds
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Like sonnets and haikus, text poems have to obey formal constraints - namely, they must be less than 160 characters.
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There are two vocal items, a wordless vocalise with flute and guitar and a trenchant, highly effective group of eight Haiku, a minute each.
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As you know, a haiku is a very short Japanese poem composed following certain specific rules.
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But he doesn't ramble or rant; instead, he suggests vast conceptual contradictions in gnomic, comic haikus.
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I know it is not as sublime as a haiku or a sonnet… in fact it is not sublime at all.
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I called out a topic and each student quickly wrote a haiku on the board.
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For those who don't know it it's a fabulous song based on a naive melody and a haiku (a western or American haiku) like lyric.
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People have written haikus that capture the algorithm for decrypting DVDs.
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The first pocketbook contains hundreds of entries in the Haiku form currently enjoying a renaissance in hip literature circles as well as epigrams, concrete poems and other works similarly concise in their nature.
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Both free verse and rhymed poetry styles are studied, including cinquain, haiku, tanka, rhopalic, echo and refrain poems, acrostics, alphabet and dictionary poems.
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Tabios decidió renombrar a su Haiku filipino con un nombre más largo y pomposo: Philippine Independence Day - Pinoy Haiku, pues el anuncio de Tabios ocurrió un doce de junio, día de la independencia de Filipinas.
Archive 2007-07-01
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