Wowing the Masses
Comments from yesterday's blogging made me take off and find out if a haiku can really be 7+9+7. Dicitonary.com has three entries.
One, a Japanese lyric written in three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables (stemming from Japanese/Middle Chinese words that mean "amusing" and "sentence"). Two, an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines. (Yes, I had to look up "epigram." It means a short, clever thought or expression. Talk about googling in circles.) Three, a city in Maui County, Haiwaii. And did you ever think about Haiwaii as the state with the longest coastline of the U.S.A.?
Shock and thrill your next dinner guests.
posted by Denise @ 12:13 PM
2 comments
2 Comments:
So... can haikus be 7+9+7 or not.... I don't want to be spreading bad poetical advice
Well, not according to Larry Gross (http://thewordshop.tripod.com/haiku/index.html), but perhaps there's a way to do free-form Haiku. Call it Myku? That sounds more like a ploy to sell a an email service.
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