During the month of July There will be featured here at Lunch Break haiku related essays; original copyright remains with the websites and to their respective writers.
Spliced In - Day 21
...The majority of literary haiku published in English today are not 5-7-5 (even in Geppo). In the second edition of Cor van den Heuvel’s The Haiku Anthology (Touchstone, 1986), 88.2 percent of the poems are not 5-7-5. And in Bruce Ross’s Haiku Moment (Tuttle, 1993), an even greater 96.5 percent of the poems are not 5-7-5. A similar dominance of non-5-7-5 poems prevails in most of the leading English-language haiku journals...
Read the essay What Is a Syllable by Michael Dylan Welch
a winter haiku....Tikkis was saying of autumn -- hope the earth is not gone too awry about seasons -- but frankly in happiness you don't think about weather, it is said,
ReplyDeleteanyway, whatever that may be, syllables and syllable count -- a job i keep for later to do...as it is, if it falls in place, it falls in place....relieving to know so much of English haiku are non 5-7-5..thanks for the note anyway :)
wishes,
devika
oh my mistake...our summer must be somebody else's winter...and so on, and so forth :)
ReplyDeletedevika
why those little peeping toms, lol love it
ReplyDeletei particularly like the the fact of (ha i ku) in Japanese 3 beats and in English (hai ku) 2 beats
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Lorraine and Devika
much love...
true :)
ReplyDeletedev