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RE: Mizu No Oto - Every Image Has Its Haiku - WEEK #20 WINNERS!
@marcoriccardi, I'm honored, truly. I love to read your comments for the winner, especially when I'm the one. I do my best, most of the time, to follow the haiku guidelines you've shared with the group. However, that is no easy task. You wrote else where these take very little time. Yeah ... maybe for some people. You should see my clusters (notes)!!! I'm always fishing for the best words, which is no easy task when I'm given so few syllables to work with.
This week was really inspired by all who entered. I couldn't have gotten into the spirit without them. So thanks to everybody.
Until next haiku ...
Reading haiku takes little time...evaluate haiku takes more time...writing a haiku takes even more time, but writing or reading a narrative story takes even more, for me.
Haiku are not simple! The guidelines for the contest are only a super-semplified top of the iceberg. And if you think you've few syllables, just imagine in Japanese, or Italian, or Spanish, 17 syllables are even less, because words are average longer than in English. Several American and Japanese-American scholars think that English haiku should be 3/5/3, and I try to respect this metric when I translate mine to English.
A couple of days ago I posted some haiku of mine about wintertime, and they're mostly 3/5/3, except one.
Interesting facts.