Monday, February 10, 2014

a haiku

Inspired by other meaningful haiku moments in my life..

(Haiku contests at Tomato Art Fest in East Nashville, 
which thus inspired post-Tomato Art Fest porch-sitting haiku-writing on an East Nashville porch,
Georgia Winter Institute [disability conference] in Columbus, GA),

...I decided to invite folks to write haikus at my 30th birthday party.

This is the one I wrote at the party:

Warm red hearth welcomes
Cuddle up cozy - it's home
Hospitality


If you're interested, I invite you to post a comment with your own haiku.  Guidelines for haiku writing, according to wikihow:

Traditional structure:
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
=17 syllables

Regarding length:
-distill an image using few sounds
-should be able to be expressed in 1 breath
...so it can be fewer than 17 syllables total

Regarding content/inspiration:
-haikus generally don't rhyme
-use sensory language to capture a feeling or image
-often inspired by an element of nature, a seasonal reference, a moment of beauty, or a poignant experience
-contains 2 juxtaposed ideas
...try writing 1 straight line with a dash between the 2 ideas

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