03-23-2014, 04:03 AM
(03-22-2014, 04:42 PM)billy Wrote:Thanks for taking the time to explain the Hoku 'extended haiku' for me billy.(03-20-2014, 03:52 AM)ChristopherSea Wrote: I like the idea of creating an extended poem from a series of Haiku. You may think it was easy to avoid rhyming, but you dropped one with swarm/warm before the double-cuckoo.it's pretty common though ususally it consists of a haiku and a two line follow on then another haiku etc. usually two or more people take part in the thing which is called a hokku. it consted of 7 lines total.(which is a line as we know it but not in actuality because it was in japanese.). i'm not sure but i think it was from this that basho and co devise the haiku (by anothor name i can't remember)
Dawn opens window.
Air cools me but I sleep on.
Dawn…shut the window.
i got a kick from this one and the line
Soon all day Sunday.
it has a japanese sound to it
My new watercolor: 'Nightmare After Christmas'/Chris


.). i'm not sure but i think it was from this that basho and co devise the haiku (by anothor name i can't remember)