I had planned to take a day off from writing haiku, and then I read a post from Annette Rochelle Aben yesterday… that Sunday April 17th is National Haiku Poetry Day! I’m not addicted to haiku. I can stop any time I choose. I didn’t have to post this…
Oh, who am I kidding! Here are some haiku on the theme of … haiku. Maybe you could write your own to join in today too?
Haiku poetry
Just seventeen syllables
The world in your hand.
Narrow horizons
Focus on idea’s core
Use as mind’s whetstone.
Choose your words wisely
Joy of nature, or comic
Accept no constraints!
Learn more about the actual celebrations scheduled for this day http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/national-haiku-poetry-day/
A Certain Point of View 
Awesome! I shall accept no constraints and take that world by the hand! Oh, and just sayin’, those balloons compliment your color scheme there. Cheers.
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Of course they do… do you think I just throw this stuff together, and add in the first pic from the archive that I like? (Well, just this once 😉 )
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You are such a good sport to play the game, today, on your scheduled day off. Cheers to the missus and kiddos, they’ve got one dedicated man in you. (and so do our poetic & blogging communities, for which we are all eternally grateful)
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Good sport, or hopeless case? The effect’s the same! 😉
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It’s very meta…a lesson on haiku in haiku! 😀
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Well, I’ve done haiku on most other things by now! 🙂
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It was time! 😀
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🙂
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Well done, Al. I know you can stop at any time, and that you do not have any sort of addiction!!! Ahem, Happy Haiku day, 🙂
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Am I addicted?
Are there any warning signs?
Oh no… just read back!
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Pfff… you dragged me in. Do I really have time for this? Sigh!
😀
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Funny, I was just saying the same thing to Annette!
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I’m not sure you were informed of the pingback, since I am private and all. Not that there are that many people who read me now, but… 🙂
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I didn’t get a pingback, but then WordPress has been having some problems with those recently anyway
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Ah, well… not that it changes much anyways 🙂
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“The mind’s whetstone.” I love that line. I can’t imagine you would skip Haiku Poetry Day!
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Not intentionally!
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Day’s short hours stretch
syllable by syllable.
Challenge accepted!
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Morning’s promise wanes
In afternoon’s bright sunlight;
Each night is a death
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No morning promise,
No bright afternoon delight;
Undead nights live on.
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Dear Al,
Here, at the end of National Haiku Day, I offer you a different, challenge, less familiar, perhaps: the 3 Day Quote Challenge. No obligation and no hard feelings if you’d rather not. 🙂
https://stranscht.com/2016/04/18/3-day-quote-challenge-3/
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Thank you, I’ll check it out! 🙂
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A loveeeely trio Al, especially the second one . Perhaps the last contradicts the first?? my sensei also says “no constraints” trad Japanese haiku was 17 syllables in the old language but Basho hit that on the head
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17 syllables is just the (conventional) form – by no constraints, I was referring to the content within that. If we see the 17 syllable “rule” as “freeing”, rather than restricting, then our whole perspective changes 🙂
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Beautiful blogs found
Serendipitously so
Thanks to this Challenge
~Eli@CoachDaddy (#1025)
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Thanks to this challenge
New blogging connections forged;
Sealed with thoughtfulness
🙂
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ohh i didnt knew this,great that Haiku is celebrated so much 🙂
Well i am doing poetry forms this month and i did Haiku too 😉 but i just cant stick on as there is always so much for me to pour down.
Check my at https://uniqusatya.wordpress.com/
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Checking it out now 🙂
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