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haiku fanatics
haiku fanatics
stifling creativity
laying down the law
inflexible minds
smothering self-expression
toeing language lines
simile is out
personification too
metaphor's a crime
icicles are fine
as long as they aren't crystal
and they mustn't rhyme
ripping haiku rules
rebel verse must be contained
I should be ashamed!
wonder if Basho
stuck rigidly to the rules
observed tradition?
haiku from the heart
give metaphor wings to soar
let the words fly free
oops I do believe
this is strictly senryu
not haiku at all!
After reading all sides of the haiku debate about how it should be written and indeed beyond haiku and into the writing of poetry in general, I really only have this to say: life is not perfect and if art imitates life it stands to reason that poetry cannot be perfect either. I think the writing of poetry suffers from perfectionism and I find that the more I read about the rights and wrongs of writing, this technique and that technique, this form and that form, the more of an inhibitory effect it has upon my work. Life is constantly changing and evolving and therefore poetry should do the same. What is being published today at the cutting edge is mainly modern haiku and free verse with a definite shift towards more rawness and edginess and I welcome that. Life is not perfect and has very little rhyme or reason, so how can it possibly be captured in neat little stanzas and strict syllable counts? And so when writing haiku I will write my own version of it, what personally pleases me and what I'd like to read myself - I've ripped up my rule book. :-)
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