Snow's Writing for 2019, 2020, & Beyond

Modern Haiku #1 11/16/19

nine doors
translucent beauty illuminates
unity

About This Poem: ▼

The inspiration for this poem is the Baha'i House of Worship for South America. https://bahaiteachings.org/bahai-house-of-worship-receives-prestigious-internati...}

Poet's Note: ▼

Line Count: 3
Form: Modern Haiku = 2/9/3

The elements I will be looking for when judging the modern, Western haiku are:

         1. syllabic, written in 17 syllables or less. Let's break the 5/7/5 habit and for this round use between 8 and 16 syllables.
         2. usually written in 3 or fewer lines.
         3. made up of 3 units, a concrete image, a parallel or expansion of the image, and a juxtaposed image that shows a moment of enlightenment .
         4. written in focused, concrete images Haiku is the ultimate, Show don't tell. The art asks that you show the crystals in the snowflake.
         5. articles such as, a the an, are used sparingly. They use up precious syllables unnecessarily. The same goes for adding ing at the end if a word. In such a small poem adding ing can produce an artificial urgency.
         6. there is no ego in haiku, the enlightenment is drawn from the image, the poet is just the messenger.
         7. untitled however for posting purposes, a title can be used here. Haiku are often #ed and dated rather than titled.

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