Syllabic
Haiku Day!!!
It’s
September 4th and that it makes it Syllabic Haiku Day. What?
You didn’t know?
Well,
it’s true. Today is set aside to honor
and express our appreciation for all those English language Haijin who have
written, and continue to write, Haiku in 5-7-5.
Things
to do on this day:
Read
some new collection of syllabic haiku.
Read
an old standard, say Richard Wright or James Hackett or Edith Shiffert or the
old anthology ‘Borrowed Water’.
Compose
some syllabic Haiku of your own; what better way to express our appreciation?
If
you have friends and want to celebrate, how about baking a Syllabic Haiku
Cake? What is a Syllabic Haiku
Cake? Glad you asked. It works like this: a cake of your choosing with seventeen
candles. The candles are arranged in
three rows, mimicking the 5-7-5 of the syllabic count. So each syllable becomes a candle on the
cake. Corny, I know. But it could be fun. Try it.
And
then you can all sing: “Happy Birthday
Haiku . . .” OK, that’s probably too
much.
Enjoy
the day.
2 comments:
syllabic mythos
cakes, candles and words
summer haijin nut
Thanks for the response. Maybe 2 more syllables in L2? Maybe something like:
syllabic mythos
cakes, burning candles and words
summer haijin nut
I like the way burning might modify both candles and words.
Or maybe:
syllabic mythos
cakes, candles and chosen words
summer haijin nut
Just tinkering.
Thanks,
Jim
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