10-25-2026, 11:11 AM
(10-25-2026, 08:45 AM)busker Wrote:(10-25-2026, 07:46 AM)matsunosuperfan Wrote:It’s not pedantry at all(10-25-2026, 06:47 AM)busker Wrote: “Sad and heavy” is the sort of abstraction that is the opposite of haikuthanks for reading. If I write more of these I will not share them here, probably. all the feedback has just been pedantry about what haiku traditionally do.
Rain falls in the street
My dog runs:
I smile.
Would be closer to the spirit, though it too is horrible
Haiku exists to exploit brevity and condensation as devices
Merely writing 3 lines doesn’t do anything unless you’re able to pack a punch
So no, your attempts at haiku have so far been terrible. Nothing to do with dogma
Describing dogma and then saying "it's not dogma" is a neat trick

