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Never would I have thought I would start writing at 73 years of age. I have thoroughly enjoyed my voyage into the written spirituality of poetry and am thankful for the opportunity.  In my seven years here I have met many new and wonderful persons. Having them accept me as a friend has been a moving experience.
                   

     

Expanding Deb's Blog

Blog Posted by Charles Henderson: 5/19/2014 11:44:00 PM
From Deb Guzzi’s blog concerning haiku. Date: 5/19/2014 10:47:00 PM. She asked for an answer to the following question and the blog is too far down to get much response from anyone. So, I have written a response here in this blog and hope it eliminates some of the confusion surrounding haiku. 
"What shall we tell this poet about why a title is not used & why capitalization is not used?"  Suz has told them why no adjectives & adverbs & personification or metaphor"

Not only are titles a focal point, and we only want the meat of the poem to be the object of concentration, but they also are a way of extending the number of syllables allowed in a haiku. It is sort of like a cheat sheet. It is fine to title a haiku string (group of similar haiku). Capitalization is not used basically because there are no sentences in haiku, only long and short phrases. The same reasoning applies to why no periods afterward at the ends of the long and short phrases.  The only reason haiku are titled on the soup is because the nature of saving our poems demands a title.  What I do is copy the first line as the title. That way I gain no use of added syllables.


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Guzzi
Date: 5/20/2014 2:56:00 PM
Chas I think part of the confusion is that 2 of lines must be joined grammatically [as well as conceptually and in doing that we do get a sentence / sometimes [I would define a sentence as a subject & a verb at its base] here's one of mine which has been published [ripples spread/from the turning waterwheel – sparrow song] BUT that is not the only way to join the 2 lines they may be joined with prepositional phrases too [in the backseat/of the open convertible: lace panties]
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Henderson
Date: 5/20/2014 7:21:00 AM
sorry guys, have to go. Bricklayer is here and I have more brick to clean.
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Henderson
Date: 5/20/2014 7:13:00 AM
Thank you Suz, that is the point I was making above.
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