Wednesday, December 8, 2010

the Haiku

Sometimes I ride with Dennis to work, we often do goofy things, say goofy things, are just generally goofy, so it should be no surprise that one day on the drive home (Plover) from Manitowoc we tried to write a Haiku. First, we had to look up the exact rules for a Haiku as we had forgotten.  It took us the whole drive to come up with what we did - I still laugh at it every time I read it.
A haiku is a non-rhymed verse genre. In Japanese, haiku has five syllables/sounds in the first line, seven in the second, and five again in the last line . In Japanese, the word "haiku" means "playful verse." More important than form is that a haiku contain a "kigo" (season word) and employ the equivalent to a "kireji" (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.

ducks0015


Little fuzzy ducks


Ran over by giant trucks


Duck soup for dinner.

17 comments:

  1. Oh, gawd, you guys are crazy.

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  2. I hope none of these ducks ended up in your soup :) I like that you posted the instructins for writing a Haiku.

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  3. Hahaha, my favorite is still:

    Haikus are easy.
    But sometimes they don’t make sense.
    Refrigerator

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  4. Poor fuzzy ducks... love the fisheye photo... what a lot of lovely mallard ducks... love the boys emerald heads...

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  5. Hahahah...never heard of Haiku...You learn something new everyday :) I love the picture.

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  6. Groucho Marx eat your heart out :-)

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  7. that is sooooooooooo cool, fish eye? love it!!

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  8. Oh, those poor, poor ducks
    And those nasty, heavy trucks
    Squished feathery soup.

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  9. Looks like this was taken w/ a fisheye lens?? I love it...so many of them! I hope they find a safer spot though!

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  10. I hope you drive to work together more often if this is the result! Wonderful ... both haiku and photo!

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  11. I love Haikus, but not this one! Poor duckies! ;) Love your photo, as always.
    (P.S. I have relatives in Manitowoc.)

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  12. They died for a good cause. Pass me some!

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  13. love it~ picture & haiku. how'd you get your picture to look that way? did you use a special lens or do that in post processing? hope all is well. have a great day.

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