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Your first three haiku:
Notes:
Comparison of haiku and senryu:
Core attributes: | Season word (kigo). | Three phrases. | Juxtaposed images. |
Classical Haiku
(nature poem) | Required | Classical Japanese: 1 vertical line of 5-7-5 morae.
Modern Western: short-long-short; maybe 2-3-2 stresses; many variations.
| Required |
Senryu
(people poem) | Optional | Same as above.
Western senryu are of variable but basically "breath-like" length. | Optional |
Haiku originated as solo verses that could be used in linked verse. Accordingly it is necessary to include information about linked verse in considering the development of haiku:
Jump-start your poetry with ideas from our writing exercises. | ||||||
Other exercises: Index. "Alien". Haiku. Spell casting. Write a poem like Billy Collins. | ||||||
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Books of Poetry Form.
Highlights of Poetry.
Index of poetry.
How to Write Your Poetry.
How to Listen to Poetry. Recommended books on Reading Poetry. | ||||||
Log of books read. | ||||||
Poetry exercises with poetry forms:
Forms of skaldic verse.
Haibun. Haiku. Hay(na)ku. Rengay. Tanka. Concrete. Ghazal. Lai. Pantoum. Rondeau. Rubáiyát. Sestina. Sonnet. Terza rima. Triolet. Tritina. Villanelle. | ||||||
Other poets:
Billy Collins and exercise. Franz Wright. J. Zimmerman. J. Zimmerman (haiku). J. Zimmerman (tanka). Jack Gilbert. Jorie Graham. Karen Braucher. Len Anderson. Li-Young Lee. Linda Pastan. Nordic Skalds. Richard Hugo's Triggering Town. W.S. Merwin. Adam Zagajewski. | ||||||
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