04-07-2017, 09:25 AM
(04-06-2017, 01:04 AM)burrealist Wrote: I'm not looking for extensive critiques, but I think I missed a point to haiku. With these few, I'm focused on a linear time frame. Starting from one place and moving through the images to a grander scheme... Have I gotten that right?
Stupid wind...."stupid" is not observing, it's opining and therefore is not haiku
Slicing my face with snow flakes--.... I get the general idea that the sting feels like the skin being sliced, but it's not a strong association. As snowflakes can't literally cut your skin open, it's not very haiku like
Go away
....too underwhelming to be poetry, let alone haiku. Again, haiku is showing, not yelling.
Mountainsides
Sweep crackled branches throughout....are you saying that the mountainside is doing the sweeping?
The city.....ho hum
Raindrops
Paint my feet with mud--
Little buds
The above is a haiku as it's showing not telling
The sun
Unforgiving and restless--
Apocalypse
Nope
Am I getting the general point?
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe

