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yay!! A happy one! 🙂 I can feel a peachy fuzz of love and the sweet nectar that will keep delirium playing hide and seek within hot memories.
Loved it! 😀
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Can’t be dark all the time 😉
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it suits you so well!
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Which? Dark or light?
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the change 😀
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Sweet! 😀
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Occasionally 😉
Thank you!
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Welcome ^-^
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Sweet😘
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Once every now and then 😉
Thank you, Nina
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This is lovely 🙂
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Thank you, Judy. I really need to focus on the diamonds more often 🙂
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Absolutely, you write them so beautifully
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*Fist bump* Yes Ryan Stone! I concur.
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Thank you 🙂
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My pleasure 🙂
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Judy and Ryan I need a wee explanation on the twist in the Haiku. Are the last 5 syllables supposed to reveal the twist?
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You know that the first and 2nd lines have to read together as one sentence as do the 2nd and third lines taken together. You can get the twist in the final five or somewhere in the 7 , as far as I know.
I have to admit to bending the rules sometimes and not always getting the twist in.
Check out Ronovans blog for a good explanation of how to do it properly 🙂
https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-78-vastclear/
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Ohhhh. *Blush* I’ve written and posted false Haikus on my blog then. Whoops. Okay, I will try to follow the rules from now on 😉
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Haha, don’t let it bother you too much La Sabrosona (deliciously attractive woman? – nice) 😉 – I think the term haiku is used fairly loosely across the board. Your poetry is beautiful, whether it strictly qualifies as haiku or not isn’t important.
I stick to calling mine 5-7-5 in reference to the syllable count, as they drift between haiku (focus on nature), senryu (focus on human nature) and just plain old verse in 5-7-5 format.
Judy’s explanation is a very good one. My understanding of a haiku is that:
– it focuses on nature,
– has a ‘season’ word or thought to let the reader know what time of year it is,
– has a division somewhere, usually towards or at the end of the second line, that shifts the focus from one thing to another. The link between these two things works best if it is surprising and offers a fresh take on the subject,
– instead of saying how the scene makes you feel, try to show the details that caused the emotion in the first place.
I tend to write more senryu. These are similar to the above explanation except that the focus is much more on human nature than on nature.
This is only my understanding and the guide I write by. Traditional haiku has even tighter rules and would take a lifetime to learn and ten lifetimes to master 🙂
Hope that is of some help. Happy writing 🙂
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Mil gracias for taking the time to explain all that Ryan. Appreciate it tons! Makes a lot more sense now. I tend to write off the cuff anyway, so I’m not really that much into rules but I will do my best. Do you speak/understand Spanish btw?
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Sadly I don’t. I think it is the most beautiful language and always translate new words when I can 🙂
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Never too late to learn! Maybe you’ll pick up some new words if you continue to visit my “casa” *hint hint* 😀
Actually last year in the spring I got a flash of inspiration and I wrote my first poem in Spanish. I was very proud of the fact that I can think in Spanish well enough to pump out a poem (English is my first language), and I only began to learn Spanish in my late 20’s.
Holy Chatty Cathy eh? What time is it where you are?
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Casa I know 🙂
That is very inspiring. I struggle to write in my native English!
It is 11.55am on the 8th in Melbourne, Australia. You?
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It’s 7:59 pm in Toronto-ish, Canada. I’m in a city outside of Toronto, but since everyone knows Toronto (or should imho) it just makes life easier for everyone 🙂
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Lol, very considerate of you 😉
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You’re very sweet to indulge my chattiness at the moment. I wish you a beautiful Friday. Oh and I just wrote a Haiku/Senryu-ish in Spanish. You have some homework to do vecino, hehe.
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Looking forward to it 😉
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Published
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WooHoo!
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Lol!
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Well you won’t be the only one as I do it too!
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Your Haikus are great Judy! Mine are Haikus merely in terms of syllables.
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Not at all! You don’t so yourself justice! 🙂
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Aww thanks Judy xx
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Great explanation, Judy 🙂
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Thanks Ryan. I got a bit mixed up a bit I think though 🙂
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That’s beautiful. 🙂
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Thank you, Raina 🙂
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I. Love. This. 😉 I’m melting 🙂
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Don’t melt! Aaaargh 😉
Thank you, Carisa.
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Yep – you know how to melt the ladies, Ryan! LOL! Really is lovely 🙂
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Haha, thank you Kelly 🙂
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Something to brighten the cold dreary nights 😉
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Happy to hear it, Ginni 🙂
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Very very lovely!
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Wow-thank you so much 🙂
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Love this! Clear and simple, as love should be! 😉
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Thank you once more, you’re too kind 🙂
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some relationships (no matter how brief) leave us with a path to perpetual sunshine…excellent
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Absolutely. There is a phrase used in forensics (specifically dna) – ‘every contact leaves a trace’ – that I think can be applied perfectly to our relationships throughout life.
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I completely agree…great forensics analogy:)
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Haha, I had to try and compete with your clever senryu mix of mathematics and love 😉
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haha…well-played 🙂
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i’m sorry for blowing up your notifications today. i keep telling myself, “just one more…” but i just. can’t. stop.
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My notifications are flattered and loving the attention…thank you 😀
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good…cuz that’s A LOT of rachel! 😊
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😂😂😂
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