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Originally Posted by MargaretR
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I think it has something to do with capturing an emotion, a feeling, a moment, and exploring it and its opposite in as few words, and as imagistically as possible. The frogs wrote a lot of it in the late nineteenth century ... imagistic poetry that is, not haiku. You just try to pack as much meaning and feeling as possible into 17 silly bulls ... altho' that's not compulsory any more,
it adds more challenge. Rhyme isn't important. It's a fun to try and write one. I got the inspiration ... if you can call it that
... for mine when I was walking my dog. My neighbour's big muttly smiled at me from his yard ... yes, he does smile ... a great dog. There were snowdrops under the tree in my neighbour's front yard. And there were also lots of last year's dead leaves blowing around. Seemed like an image of winter leaving and spring arriving to me ... why not
? So, I sat down and wrote the haiku.
If I were not so bloody bone idle, I would have written a sonnet
Enough of being sensitive. Time to grab a beer and a joint, and watch baseball.
