Compose
a Haiku Response
Each
haiku response contributes to a larger collective poem. Unlike traditional
linked verse, which is a linear chain of short poems, there is no
prescribed order among the verses here.
Compose
a haiku response to the photograph and to one or more of the other
haiku verses.
Guidelines
1.
The response should combine a link and shift. It should relate to
an object, meaning, or mood in the image and words (link) and also
introduce another meaning or mood (shift).
2.
Compose the verse in the haiku form of 17 syllables, arranged in
3 lines of 5/7/5 (5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second,
5 in the third).
For
more information:
On
the haikai tradition, see Haruo Shirane Traces of Dreams: Landscape,
Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho (Stanford 1998).
There
are many websites on haiku and modern linked poetry (renku).
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