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Practical Haiku
How a tiny, ancient form of poetry can make your life
better by making you more creative, a better writer,
happier, nicer to be around, more productive, sexier …
Everybody knows how to
write haiku, right?
5 Haiku are easy
7 But sometimes they don’t make sense
5 Refrigerator
sudden downpour –
no one wins
the wet-t-shirt contest
David Giacalone
How haiku helps you live
better
Haiku helps you write more precisely
home addition–
the carpenter's math
penciled on drywall
Barry George
Photo: GregHickman
Photo: Lily
The haiku way: How
you can make it
happen
1. Read haiku every day
morning news
with the paper, I bring in
a cherry petal
Dylan Tweney
Haiku Basics: Immediacy
Photo: Funkandjazz
Photo: intherough
Think small
Mars landing --
a tendril of red dust
shifts from a footfall
Alan Summers
Show, don’t tell
in the old stable
we made hot, passionate love
like wild horses do
stolen kisses
barn swallows
twitter in the eaves
Mike Farley
Contrast/comparis
on
2 parts: short - long or long - short
Charles Trumbull
Use natural
language
If you can’t say it with a straight face, try again
in one breath the whole autumn
Valeria Simonova-Cecon
“One breath
poetry”
10-12 syllables is usually enough
Look at the world as a “what's
wrong with this picture?” puzzle
mannequin faces
a cosmetic counter woman
offers a spritz
Jeffrey Winke
Photo: Lisa Brewster
Share your haiku with
others
ReadWritePoem.org
WorldHaikuReview.org
Haiku Poets of Northern California – hpnc.org
Or, just write haiku and send them to your friends, leave them
tucked in library books, on Muni, scrawled on the bathroom wall…
dylan@tweney.com
@tinywords
@dylan20
Happy haiku-ing
hum of the laptop
watching a lost world flicker to life
Dylan Tweney