The Gingko

cool evening prone to rest 'neath the gingko

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Skat A

Date: 12/31/2015 12:25:00 AM

Charles, happy New Years. I promise 2016 will be the year, I learn the Haiku. Can I say The Haiku? SKAT

Charles Henderson
Date: 12/31/2015 1:36:00 AM

Sure, the haiku is easy for you. Make a statement of one or two lines. Then make another statement which moves the first one into a different plane of thought, to have three lines total. The wider you can separate the two thoughts and still have them similar in some way, the more powerful the effect of the haiku. Choose scenes and actions which are easily seen in your mind and will be easily reproduced in the readers mind. This one tends to make one think more because of the double entendre or meaning of prone. prone, to be likely to, or prone as in lieing straight