HOMEWORK PROMPTS FOR WEEK ENDING 2ND JUNE 2014
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 2:23 pm
We had a pretty good response to last week prompts - well done and thank you to everyone who had a go. Nothing ventured nothing gained as they say and the only way to improve your writing is by writing so even if one word sparks a thought and the thought becomes a verse well my job is done 
Neville is often heard to say we should show and not tell - and I think that's pretty good advice. We have all heard that less is more and again often that is true. We should make every word count.
Here's a challenge for you - lets see who is up for it. Disregarding the technical rules of Haiku bar one lets see who can write a Haiku styled bush poem where every word has to count. The rule you have to put into play is that there must be no more than 17 syllables in each Haiku styled verse. Traditional Haiku is 3 lines of 5/7/5 syllables and it doesn't rhyme but if you want to make your's rhyme feel free.
Here are a couple of examples of favourites of mine, the first one by Raymond Roseliep IMO is particularly beautiful -
an aging willow--
its image unsteady
in the flowing stream
This one by Ruth Yarrow -
Just friends:
he watches my gauze dress
blowing on the line.
Don't make the mistake of thinking Haiku easy - they are the hardest poetry I have ever written simply because you really do have to think along the simplicity line and as my Dad often said - I was vaccinated with a gramophone needle - so less is never more to me
but lets see what you folks can come up with. Are you up for the challenge?
Neville is often heard to say we should show and not tell - and I think that's pretty good advice. We have all heard that less is more and again often that is true. We should make every word count.
Here's a challenge for you - lets see who is up for it. Disregarding the technical rules of Haiku bar one lets see who can write a Haiku styled bush poem where every word has to count. The rule you have to put into play is that there must be no more than 17 syllables in each Haiku styled verse. Traditional Haiku is 3 lines of 5/7/5 syllables and it doesn't rhyme but if you want to make your's rhyme feel free.
Here are a couple of examples of favourites of mine, the first one by Raymond Roseliep IMO is particularly beautiful -
an aging willow--
its image unsteady
in the flowing stream
This one by Ruth Yarrow -
Just friends:
he watches my gauze dress
blowing on the line.
Don't make the mistake of thinking Haiku easy - they are the hardest poetry I have ever written simply because you really do have to think along the simplicity line and as my Dad often said - I was vaccinated with a gramophone needle - so less is never more to me
but lets see what you folks can come up with. Are you up for the challenge?