Poem of the day!!

EstherM wrote:

If you want to know more about my day:

Pen in a bag

Ink escapes

Fingers black

I like it! Thanks Gaijinmark!

:hehe: :hehe: :hehe:

G'mark started a trend.

bmwracer wrote:I didn't even know this thread existed. :bleh:

This thread now exists

For Jdorama poets

With nothing to do. :beaten: :hehe:


Fine digging there, GM! :thumbsup:

I don't think there are any haiku forms here in this thread. It is not about counting the words..it has to be about a season. Which is why sakuras and snow are often mentioned. I think that is the old Japanese style.

Waka is older and different in form. I think it is more interesting.

Peg

brad2 wrote:I don't think there are any haiku forms here in this thread. It is not about counting the words..it has to be about a season. Which is why sakuras and snow are often mentioned. I think that is the old Japanese style.

Waka is older and different in form. I think it is more interesting.

Peg

Still waiting for your waka, Peg. :D

Haiku is also about counting the syllables to a certain extent which can not be translated totally into English. But the usual formula is 17 syllables usually cut up in 3 lines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku

A seasonal word is used but the topic does not have to be about the seasons from what I gather.

Now since you are a purist. ;)

First snow, then silence

This computer screen

Dies so beautifully.

Ah well...Since it is you my dear and since you are rather good at twisting an arm..i.e :beatyou:

attempt at waka here..


Where did the song go

How did the melody fade

No sound, no light shines

And yet a bird is singing

The heart impaled on a thorn

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I read somewhere that the Emperor Meiji and his wife wrote wakas to one another many times a day. It was communication and consequently only they knew just what they were conveying. Prying eyes not privy to their love notes or jokes or complaints. My husband wrote poems to me but not quite that number !!!

Peg

Eve,

I read your haiku more than once and came to the conclusion that it gives many mind pictures. For me this is really what poems are all about. I liked your haiku of 16 syllables. I think it should be retained exactly as it is.

Peg

brad2 wrote:Eve,

I read your haiku more than once and came to the conclusion that it gives many mind pictures. For me this is really what poems are all about. I liked your haiku of 16 syllables. I think it should be retained exactly as it is.

Peg

LOL, not sure how 17 becomes 16. ;) Perhaps you missed one syllable in Beautifully (5 there alone). ;)

And yes, Im good at twisting arms and legs.... :twisted:

Loved your Waka, interesting. I havent read anything in that form before.

brad2 wrote:I read somewhere that the Emperor Meiji and his wife wrote wakas to one another many times a day. It was communication and consequently only they knew just what they were conveying. Prying eyes not privy to their love notes or jokes or complaints. My husband wrote poems to me but not quite that number !!!

How great they had so much free time. :thumbsup:
And safer in that realm Im sure.

Lovely, that your man wrote you poetry.

My ex wrote me poetry. It was fine but I prefer the rather straightforward texts from my husband now. :naughty:

Well maybe I am wrong.

Beau ti full y ( I see four)

What am I missing?


I got going on haiku last year and it became so embedded that I would wake up in the night and find I was working my brain to do a haiku. Last night I woke up and I was having a go at a waka. It becomes an addiction.

Poetry is easier to write and express stronger emotion I think. At least easier than writing prose in a letter.
Although a really good writer can give a message in any form. For example Mr. Churchill could rouse the whole Parliament into frenzy at times and then do the same to boost up the morale of the whole country. I don't know if he ever wrote poetry but he certainly wrote to his Clemmy a lot.

Peg

brad2 wrote:Well maybe I am wrong.

Beau ti full y ( I see four)

What am I missing?

Bea-u-ti-ful-ly writes the English major. ;)

brad2 wrote:I got going on haiku last year and it became so embedded that I would wake up in the night and find I was working my brain to do a haiku. Last night I woke up and I was having a go at a waka. It becomes an addiction.

That sounds like me with my studying Norwegian. I wake up from dreaming I am putting sentences together in that language.

:bonk:
sixty odd years in US and I don't speak English anymore......

Your haiku is a beautiful 17 syllable example.

Easy to solve problems in discussion.
Maybe we should make a dent in Washington where commonsense is sadly needed. :banghead:


Seriously the more I read your haiku..the more I enjoy it. It has many levels..Clever girl. :bow:

Peg

Eve.

that is a great link.
With regard to Haiga..I am glad to know the name of that art because my first mind picture for my waka was a lady sitting beside a pool having lost her love and watching the bird sing on the rose bush, despite the thorny wound.

I may try to paint that some day. It is a persistent image.

Peg

brad2 wrote::bonk:
sixty odd years in US and I don't speak English anymore......

That puts me in mind of speaking with a norwegian friend that told us she doesn't teach English. She teaches American. :rofl:

brad2 wrote:Easy to solve problems in discussion.
Maybe we should make a dent in Washington where commonsense is sadly needed. :banghead:

I dont think that commonsense is allowed there. ;)
Needed but not permitted. :shakehead:

Glad you enjoyed the tech haiku. :mrgreen:

I was curious about the word..

Is this English or American speak?? Put cursor on word for sound.

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=beautifully&submit=Submit

Peg.

brad2 wrote:I was curious about the word..

Is this English or American speak?? Put cursor on word for sound.

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=beautifully&submit=Submit

Peg.

I heard him say it with two syllables. He sounded like a Brit who has been abroad for awhile. :hehe:

?Longer than I maybe....mustbe...

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Haiku...

:victory: Roy :victory:

The Star reached out
Reclaiming him
Bright moonbeams led the way
He flew high.

Peg

I was going to say Australian, but he doesn't say "mate" at the end.

:P AD

brad2 wrote:
:victory: Roy :victory:

The Star reached out
Reclaiming him
Bright moonbeams led the way
He flew high.

Peg

:applaud: :applaud: Lovely.

A poet, not I.

Even when the Spring seasons

Azaleas bloom.

[image]

Eve,

That can be called a true Haiga.


There must be a poet among all those blossoms :applaud:

Peg

brad2 wrote:Eve,

That can be called a true Haiga.


There must be a poet among all those blossoms :applaud:

Peg

Nope, just a Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on the center blossom. ;)

I see I see...

Quite a bg one....

Peg