Comments on: Practicing Haiku Poems

By: iaindavidwilkinson

iaindavidwilkinson — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:51:11 +0000

My advice would definitely be to go for it. Writing Haiku sharpens your powers of observation and reflection, and despite what some people may see as constraint there are almost endless possiblities for experimentation. I would recommend getting hold of a copy of ‘The Haiku Anthology’ edited by Cor Van Den Heuvel and checking out some of Raymond Roseliep’s work at http://www.terebess.hu/english/usa/roseliep.html for starters. I have also put some of my haiku work up on my blog at http://www.iaindavidwilkinson.wordpress.com
Good luck and have fun!
Best,
-I.

By: Ken Wagner

Ken Wagner — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:22:55 +0000

aj3d - I am looking forward to the guest post(s). If you are interested, you can set up a free no-hassle blog at http://wordpress.com. Last month, there were 300,000 Google searches for "haiku" and 30,000 searches for "haiku poems." I definitely think haiku blogs will have an audience - it just takes time, good content (I'm trying!), and a little bit of design and marketing. More voices help build a better community. harps - Welcome! And thanks for leaving the haiku. It captures the emergence of haiku habits nicely, contrasting with a different source of inspiration - the dream world. Well done.

By: harps

harps — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:53:14 +0000

words emerge
instead of dreams
to help

By: aj3d

aj3d — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:38:51 +0000

I have considered blogging, but I’m such a n00b in that respect. A haiku-blog would be nice, but who would come and visit (apart from you )?

Twitter is less of a fuss, to do and to follow, I think.

But I started working on my guest posts!
–
Adriaan Jacobsz

By: Ken Wagner

Ken Wagner — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:17:04 +0000

Adriaan - You access the haiku possibilities on Twitter very well. What do you think about the blog format? Do you think it suits the genre? Have you considered blogging, or do you prefer the Twitter practice?

By: aj3d

aj3d — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:45:04 +0000

I wrote many haiku until a few years ago, and started again when someone introduced me to Twitter. It just seems such a natural medium for it.

I agree that writing haiku makes you become more aware. The more you write, the more it turns into a habit, a way of seeing (or being).

Among the first ones I tweeted was this:
haiku is eigenlijk maar niks, en toch…
(haiku doesn’t amount to much, and yet…)

But I feel better now…
–
Adriaan Jacobsz

By: Ken Wagner

Ken Wagner — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:23:13 +0000

Ian - Thanks for the comment and visit, Ian. Please come back and share any suggestions or reactions that you have as the project moves forward. It would be very helpful to know what grabbed you, what bored you, and why. I find that the more I commit to writing haiku, the more I notice that can be captured in haiku. Haiku viral, so to speak.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:29:31 +0000

Cool site, and great idea. I think I’m going to give this a try. Not sure that I can do it more than once per day, so I’ll need to start slowly. I’ll set a goal of three per week and see if I can scale up to a few per day. I’m not the best poet, nor the most prolific writer, so it will take me some time, but a little insight is better than none, right?

By: Ken Wagner

Ken Wagner — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:36:20 +0000

Qrystal – Thanks for the comment and the haiku!

I agree about collecting snapshots. The more we collect, the more we notice – differently.

Great tip about the Twitter search. I added the search to my RSS feed.

By: Qrystal

Qrystal — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:03:29 +0000

I don’t pretend to post great haiku either, but I do try to put a good amount of inspiration into each one so that I can take pride in what I’ve done. Overall though, I think of haiku as being akin to photography: the more shots you make, the more good ones you get out of it. According to http://tweetstats.com/graphs/Qrystal#tcloud I have tweeted over 1300 haiku since March 2008!

A haiku for you in honour of your new domain name:

I wholly agree:
moments captured in haiku
improve living them!

~Qrystal

See also http://search.twitter.com/search?q=haiku+-haikutwaiku (a search for haiku artists on twitter, omitting the ones by that haiku thief, @haikutwaiku).