Essence of July
Bumblebees, butterflies, and
Long garden suppers
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August 7, 2009 at 1:02 am
Thou shalt not break form
it’s five and seven and five
I am a purist
August 7, 2009 at 8:31 am
Gosh darnit! You’re right! Edit comming…..
August 7, 2009 at 11:26 am
There, the syllable count is fixed. Can’t vouch for some of the deeper elements of the form like seasonally correct animals, but at least the shocking diversion is eliminated.
August 9, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Many thanks to you
Universe is now aligned
My mind is at peace
August 17, 2009 at 1:15 pm
I’m going to be a pedant here (or perhaps an anti-pedant?). I quote here from the forward to The Haiku Anthology (van den Heuvel, ed.; W.W. Norton & Co., 1999):
“[M]ost haiku in English are not written in 5-7-5 syllables at all — many are not even written in three lines. … What distinguishes a haiku is concision, perception ad awareness — not a set number of syllables. … A haiku can be anywhere from a few to 17 syllables, rarely more. It is now known that about 12 — not 17 — syllables in English are equivalent in length to the 17 onji (sound syllables) of the Japanese haiku.”
And concise they certainly seem to be. Keep up the sweet work, Byron.