Post by yoshinaka on Jan 9, 2007 19:22:48 GMT -5
Fred, my haiku weren't particularly authentic, they just happened to be in Japanese (not necessarily good Japanese, either; I can speak passably well about simple topics but I still get a lot of things wrong). An "authentic" haiku (I put the term in quotes because there are various schools of haiku composition, all with different rules, and there's plenty of perfectly good haiku that breaks those rules) would follow the labyrinthine rules of composition found in one of the huge haiku style manuals, which stipulate which words are and aren't acceptable, which words can only be used in certain seasons, which words require other words to be used in the same poem, etc. etc. etc. The only two rules most people worry about are the 5-7-5 rule (which is sometimes broken, even by the masters) and the "make it have something to do with the seasons or nature or something," which is also frequently broken.
sexualharrison:
Like snowfall in spring,
my double post fades away.
...Unless I screwed up.
sexualharrison:
Like snowfall in spring,
my double post fades away.
...Unless I screwed up.