fingerpaint (haiku)
Friday, February 16th, 2007As promised, a bonus haiku comic to wrap up the mini story arc. As always, your haiku comments are most welcome but regular comments are okay too, as long as they are gushing about how wonderful the comic is. 
A note on haikus:
I have been working with the traditional english haiku format of 5,7,5, but contemporary free from haikus can be less than 17 syllables. Haikus originated in Japan and 17 syllables in English are more wordy than 17 syllables in Japanese. Scholars actually have stated that 11/12 syllables in English are closest to the Japanese form. My point isn’t to confuse you but to let you know that you need not stick to the 5,7,5 structure.
The essence of the haiku is what is important. The idea is to use imagery with brevity; with few words, paint the image in the reader’s mind. Haikus can be wonderfully challenging or just silly and fun. I encourage you to try.
Here’s a nice article on contemporary haikus and aha poetry’s haiku section with tons of info and examples.
That’s all for now. See you on Wednesday.
-calan
February 16th, 2007 at 12:39 am
posthumous message
finds voice in her acceptance
it is her nature
February 16th, 2007 at 1:07 am
gingerdead, lenoir
black and white so close at last
love so red, so true
February 16th, 2007 at 3:33 am
surrogate fingers
transplanted from unnamed source
make two people whole
February 16th, 2007 at 3:44 am
lifeless tentacles
rescued from a pointless fate
creating beauty
February 16th, 2007 at 11:41 am
gingerdead and friends
what adventures they get in
i must buy a shirt
February 18th, 2007 at 1:01 am
I am too lazy
To write another haiku
Oh, crap, I just did
February 18th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
i like haiku -
any moron can
write haiku; just stop at the
seventeenth syllab
February 18th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha
February 19th, 2007 at 4:38 am
Much Thanks To Calan
That Gingerdead and Lenoir
Are Very Happy
It’s Haiku Fun Time
With One Poe Tatum Chicky
Really Crazy Broad
Do you Think Lenoir
Heard a Loud Snap When She Broke
Those two fingers off
It Doesn’t Matter
She and Gingerdead look Fine
Ahh the happy pair
I think I have done
More than enough Haiku Damn
Now I will Zip It
HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
February 25th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Love is Lost Digits
Glorious is the Blood Paint
Creepy Cute Lenoir
March 1st, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Oh, do not forget
Intestines are useful, too
Warm and so slimy
September 18th, 2007 at 2:53 am
yum!
October 21st, 2007 at 12:55 am
In the spirit of sharing haiku, I offer-up this web-comic archive from “Questionable Content”:
[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=181]
…& look in panel #2.
In the NEXT day’s strip (same URL, but the last digit=2), there are haiku in panels #1 & #4.
Enjoy.