If you are interested in haiku, it is a whole world to itself. The 17 syllable thing is probably the least important part.
What separates haiku from senyru is that haiku usually has a nature theme.
They both use the idea of two separate ideas put together to create an insight.
Do you remember Bhokta from NV? Sukadevi and Nara's father.
He runs a monthly haiku contest. Writing haiku is a great discipline tool for becoming an effective writer, IMHO, so I take part in it for the exercise.
It isn't a devotee thing, it is much more widespread.
If you are interested, here is the link to the contest page of the website.
I am always happy to see devotees writing poetry.
ReplyDeleteIf you are interested in haiku, it is a whole world to itself. The 17 syllable thing is probably the least important part.
What separates haiku from senyru is that haiku usually has a nature theme.
They both use the idea of two separate ideas put together to create an insight.
Do you remember Bhokta from NV? Sukadevi and Nara's father.
He runs a monthly haiku contest. Writing haiku is a great discipline tool for becoming an effective writer, IMHO, so I take part in it for the exercise.
It isn't a devotee thing, it is much more widespread.
If you are interested, here is the link to the contest page of the website.
http://www.haikuworld.org/kukai/current.html
thanks for filling me in, madhava ghosh. I look forward to writing haikus with the aspects that you mentioned. maybe i shall submit one one month :)
ReplyDeleteHi! Nice poem! I liked it. Even I had shared similar thoughts in a poem. If poss read it...
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I enjoy reading Haikus in the link below. Though it's not devotional, I thought you can get some inspiration for writing haiku poems.
http://pursuanceoftruth.blogspot.com/
Why "maybe"? It's not too late to dive in this month. :-)
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