http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/haiku/index.html

-- (nobody@nowhere.non), September 26, 2002

Answers

Thanks for the heads up. Is this a gentle hint that I should submit some haiku there? Some of it's really good!

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), September 26, 2002.

Well, haiku submitted. Now we wait to see if they publish it.

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), September 27, 2002.

Guessjuneshieght! Your sneeze!

Hope you're cold gets better ...

But wait until spring?

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (racookpe@earthlink.net), September 27, 2002.

It has been so long

Since "Der Unkl" has haikued

Does he need practice?

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeeD@yahoo.com), October 03, 2002.

Do my eyes deceive?
Blinking, mouth hanging open.
Is that really Unk?

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), October 03, 2002.

And no, you don't need practice. You did good! :-)

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), October 04, 2002.

The master arrives.

I bow my head with respect,

Warmly welcome him.

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Haiku submitted

Clearly practice is needed

So far unpublished :-(

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), October 04, 2002.

Is haiku around here limited to the 5-7-5 format? I thought that contemporary english haiku had no such constraint. I like the idea that the haiku should be about 8-12 syllables total; ie, it should take as long to read as did the "haiku moment" of recognition (the moment of "ah-ness"). Three lines seem to still be in fashion.

-- (lars@indy.net), November 10, 2002.

Lars,

High-koo around here is 5-7-5, but Low-koo may be in any format you please. And welcome.

-- helen (hi@hi.koo.koo), November 10, 2002.

Helen, thanks. I'll just watch FRL for a while and see what youse guys is up to. I didn't realize any Greenspun forums were still alive.

I went thru a lowku phase in 1989. 90 and 91. It was a passion for a time, then fizzled. I had a couple published in the haiku periodical Frogpond and 3 more in a book, Anthology of Midwestern Haiku.

Then I lost the muse; even came to think of haiku as "the world's most trivial art form".

-- (lars@water.sound), November 10, 2002.

Wing-lights flash

fade into

Orion

-- (lars@indy.net), November 12, 2002.

Golden maple leaves
fall like drifts of moving snow
all over my yard.

We need some guv help,
even Deedah would agree,
make leaves a cash crop.

Crop with price supports,
with biomass incentives.
Now that would be fair!

-- Peter Errington (petere7@starpower.net), November 13, 2002.

The discipline, Lars,
Of haichu (Bless you!) to you
Trains the mind to sneeze.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (racookpe@earthlink.net), November 13, 2002.