{"id":730,"date":"2010-11-13T11:35:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T17:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=730"},"modified":"2010-11-15T17:25:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T23:25:27","slug":"how-to-write-a-haiku-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/how-to-write-a-haiku-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write a Haiku poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A haiku is a non-rhymed verse genre. &#8216;Haiku&#8221; means &#8220;playful verse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE HAIKU<\/strong> is one of the most well-known and challenging poetic forms. It creates a world in three lines of set metrical lengths: five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables.<br \/>\nThe following by Japanese poet Murakami Kijo (1865\u20131938) provides an example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First autumn morning:<br \/>\nthe mirror I stare into<br \/>\nshows my father\u2019s face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Maple-tree-in-fall.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-733\" title=\"Maple tree in fall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Maple-tree-in-fall-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Maple-tree-in-fall-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Maple-tree-in-fall-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>In Japanese, haiku has five sounds in the first part, seven in the second, and five again in the last part (they count sounds, not strictly syllables, however, and also write in a single vertical line, but we use three horizontal lines in English). A haiku should contain a &#8220;kigo&#8221; (season word) and employ the equivalent to a &#8220;kireji&#8221; (cutting word), which means that the poem should present two juxtaposed parts in three lines. In addition, haiku should use objective sensory images, and avoid subjective commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Fall &#8211; here&#8217;s our Japanese Maple after the wind storm.<\/p>\n<p>Winter usually makes us think of \u00a0cold, sadness, hunger, tranquility or peace. Ideas about winter can be invited with words like &#8220;snow,&#8221; &#8220;ice,&#8221; &#8220;leafless,&#8221; etc<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Send a haiku, or any other short poem to our WINTER SOLSTICE SHORT POETRY<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Pumpkin-on-fall-day1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-732\" title=\"Pumpkin on fall day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Pumpkin-on-fall-day1-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Pumpkin-on-fall-day1-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Pumpkin-on-fall-day1-1024x952.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> CONTEST, sponsored by the non-profit Ice Painting Project Society. Open to anyone, anywhere. \u00a0Themes in your poem should include ice and\/ or the light at the winter solstice.<\/p>\n<p>Send your poem and $5 entry fee to: Ice Painting Project Society, General Delivery, Roberts Creek, B.C. V0N 2W0 Canada. We&#8217;ll read it at Dec 18th at Sechelt Arts Centre, and publish it on several websites:<\/p>\n<p>www.wordlinklounge.blogspot.com<\/p>\n<p>www.theicegate.blogspot.com<\/p>\n<p>www.posticegate.blogspot.com<\/p>\n<p>ocwmagazine.ca<\/p>\n<p>twitter.com\/ocwmagazine<\/p>\n<p>facebook.com\/ocwmagazine.ca<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=127437590646100<\/p>\n<p>(go to this above site on Facebook for more info on the contest!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Haiku&#8217; means &#8216;playful verse&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15,16],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pondering-the-brilliance-of-existence","tag-haiku","tag-winter-solstice-short-poetry-contest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}