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Monday, May 21, 2012

Haiku Special!

Today it's Haiku day at WordCount Blogathon! A word which I was unaware of till I Googled.

Haiku is a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables , in three lines of five,seven and five. it is an unrhymed syllabic form.Since it is so brief,a haiku is necessarily imagistic ,concrete and pithy ,capturing a single moment in a very few words.The most important characteristic of haiku is how it conveys,through implication and suggestion ,a moment of keen perception and perhaps insight into nature or human nature.





Though at first look, it looks a simple set of three lines but as you read examples and with each , a picture is sketched in brain with just seventeen syllables.That's the beauty of Japanese haiku!I sat and tried doing English version of Haiku and managed three of them. Each has a different fragrance.

                                                           Gentle Sea breeze ...
                                                           Soft touch of hand 
                                                           Gazing at Orion        


                                                                        Croaking frog ...
                                                                        A splash in mud puddle
                                                                        Chuckle on lips  



                                                                        Rhythmic music ...
                                                                        A swirl of frills
                                                                        A Beat skipped   
               
I hope I managed to draw some rough strokes of images in mind by these.Hope to write more in future. :)

                  

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