{"id":324,"date":"2011-05-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2013-04-30T10:25:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:25:53","slug":"haiku-editing-your-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Haiku – editing your thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the ultimate editor’s blue-pencil job: paring down your dreams, thoughts, inspirations, message, and intentions into that oh-so-regimented haiku format (and today’s Wordcount Blogathon<\/a> theme). Yep, 5-7-5 pattern, no deviations (but no rhyme-requirements either).<\/p>\n

‘T ain’t easy, but as an antidote to our these-days tendency toward logorrhea (and blogorrhea), the disciplines of haiku can make us slow down, refocus, edit our writing, pare it down to the essentials.<\/p>\n

Zen Ties<\/em>\u00a0 is the second of John Muth’s books [YouTube book trailer<\/a>] about a Zen master panda living in a regular American neighborhood [publisher site<\/a>] – this time Koo, his haiku-speaking nephew, comes to visit:<\/p>\n

Tea was very good
\nMy cup holds emptiness now
\nWhere should I put it?<\/p>\n

There can also be a humorous side to haiku’s rigor, as shown by Guyku: a Year of Haiku for Boys<\/em>,\u00a0 by Bob Raczka and Peter H. Reynolds [review<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>], which features this summer-related guyku:<\/p>\n

Lying on the lawn,
\nwe study the blackboard sky,
\nconnecting the dots.<\/p>\n

The GiggleIT Project<\/a> is a free international online writing project for students, and it includes haiku<\/a> as one of its 2011 competitions<\/a>. Once their teacher or librarian registers a class\/group, then students’ creative writing and artwork can be showcased to a world audience. I should know, since I’m the GiggleIT publicity chair!<\/p>\n

Voices of children,
\nAll colors and all ages,
\nLift us with laughter.
\n**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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