CaptainPicard
Rookie
So i been drinkin again, and i wanted to rant a lil about Haikus lol
Ok so it seems like the whole haiku friday thing has picked up alot lately. Understandably so, who doesnt like free stuff? I love the whole idea of it. But more and more, im getting frustrated with peoples haikus (haikoos haiku lol).
I am in no way good at english, dont have a major, and i dunno anything about poetry past what i learned in high school...hell, half the time i dont bother to correct anything but spelling anymore. But to me, it feels like half the people that post entries dont really know what a good haiku sounds like.
All i know about em is that they are supposed to be 5-7-5, but that doesnt mean that they should just be a sentence, or a thought - put into the correct syllables. It should have a lil aesthetic feel to it. It should have a "punchline" (if it were a joke), or something that ties it all together. Too many people just form a sentence into the 5-7-5 rule and call it good. I would post examples but i dont wanna be an asshole. The "punchline" doesnt have to be in the last line either, ive seen some good ones that had it up front or in the middle. And its not like its even a "punchline" , but this is so hard to explain lol- im tryin my best here.
But yeah it should never be just one or two sentences running together. It should be something that, overall, sounds funny, clever, cute or whatever really...as long as its pleasing when read aloud- or in the head. Not everyone is guilty of this, a few of you regularly make great entries, that im jealous of lol....
And once again this is all my opinion, dont hate me. But someone else out there has to have read some of these and been like "wtf? laaaaame!"
:x :x
Ok so it seems like the whole haiku friday thing has picked up alot lately. Understandably so, who doesnt like free stuff? I love the whole idea of it. But more and more, im getting frustrated with peoples haikus (haikoos haiku lol).
I am in no way good at english, dont have a major, and i dunno anything about poetry past what i learned in high school...hell, half the time i dont bother to correct anything but spelling anymore. But to me, it feels like half the people that post entries dont really know what a good haiku sounds like.
All i know about em is that they are supposed to be 5-7-5, but that doesnt mean that they should just be a sentence, or a thought - put into the correct syllables. It should have a lil aesthetic feel to it. It should have a "punchline" (if it were a joke), or something that ties it all together. Too many people just form a sentence into the 5-7-5 rule and call it good. I would post examples but i dont wanna be an asshole. The "punchline" doesnt have to be in the last line either, ive seen some good ones that had it up front or in the middle. And its not like its even a "punchline" , but this is so hard to explain lol- im tryin my best here.
But yeah it should never be just one or two sentences running together. It should be something that, overall, sounds funny, clever, cute or whatever really...as long as its pleasing when read aloud- or in the head. Not everyone is guilty of this, a few of you regularly make great entries, that im jealous of lol....
And once again this is all my opinion, dont hate me. But someone else out there has to have read some of these and been like "wtf? laaaaame!"
:x :x