Philippine summer
children swim in Manila Bay
together with garbage
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Adlaw Sa Bibi't Tinaipan
adlaw sa bibi't tinaipan
gataeang-taeang ro agagangis
kon anong tono ra gamiton
gataeang-taeang ro agagangis
kon anong tono ra gamiton
Haiku Guides
I lifted this haiku guide from http://irishhaiku.webs.com/haikuguidelines.htm
Haiku without rules is like a tennis match without a ball!
1. Haiku is a three-line nature-orientated poem expressing poet’s direct experience of something, description of background/surroundings, and an original and deep thought based on it.
2. The form of 5-7-5 can be used but is not essential.
3. No title should be given to a haiku.
4. Make sure your haiku consists of two distinctive parts, and not of one or three!
5. Time: use verbs only in the present or past continuous tenses.
6. Avoid end rhyme.
7. Avoid using capital letters and punctuation marks, unless you really have to.
8. Avoid turning your haiku into an aphorism or an epigram.
9. Avoid direct metaphors.
10. Use only common language.
Further Guidelines
1. Remove any words you can remove without losing the sense of the haiku.
2. Try not to use adverbs, pronouns. Avoid using more than two adjectives with the same noun
3. Avoid using too many ‘ing’ words (usually no more than two!)
4. Vary the articles (‘a’ and ‘the’). Don’t use too many of them (two is usually quite enough).
5. Avoid using conditional clauses, e.g. subjunctive mood.
6. Write about what you see, avoid writing hearsay haiku.
7. If you want to write a real haiku, use a kigo.
8. ‘Choose each word very carefully. Use words that clearly express what you feel’ – JW Hackett
9. ‘Never use obscure allusions: real haiku are intuitive, not abstract or intellectual’– JW Hackett
10. ‘Lifefulness, not beauty, is the real quality of haiku’ – JW Hackett
Haiku without rules is like a tennis match without a ball!
1. Haiku is a three-line nature-orientated poem expressing poet’s direct experience of something, description of background/surroundings, and an original and deep thought based on it.
2. The form of 5-7-5 can be used but is not essential.
3. No title should be given to a haiku.
4. Make sure your haiku consists of two distinctive parts, and not of one or three!
5. Time: use verbs only in the present or past continuous tenses.
6. Avoid end rhyme.
7. Avoid using capital letters and punctuation marks, unless you really have to.
8. Avoid turning your haiku into an aphorism or an epigram.
9. Avoid direct metaphors.
10. Use only common language.
Further Guidelines
1. Remove any words you can remove without losing the sense of the haiku.
2. Try not to use adverbs, pronouns. Avoid using more than two adjectives with the same noun
3. Avoid using too many ‘ing’ words (usually no more than two!)
4. Vary the articles (‘a’ and ‘the’). Don’t use too many of them (two is usually quite enough).
5. Avoid using conditional clauses, e.g. subjunctive mood.
6. Write about what you see, avoid writing hearsay haiku.
7. If you want to write a real haiku, use a kigo.
8. ‘Choose each word very carefully. Use words that clearly express what you feel’ – JW Hackett
9. ‘Never use obscure allusions: real haiku are intuitive, not abstract or intellectual’– JW Hackett
10. ‘Lifefulness, not beauty, is the real quality of haiku’ – JW Hackett
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Monday, March 09, 2009
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Baeay
Baeay
Ku eamang
Gahabyog-habyog
Bangod gaalipugsa
Ro daga-daga.
Maeara
May 30, 2008
Note: Please take note of the number of syllables per line. I hope to continue this kind of poetry. I am calling it Bakod, with 2,3,5,7,5 line structure. Try writing one, just for fun.
Ku eamang
Gahabyog-habyog
Bangod gaalipugsa
Ro daga-daga.
Maeara
May 30, 2008
Note: Please take note of the number of syllables per line. I hope to continue this kind of poetry. I am calling it Bakod, with 2,3,5,7,5 line structure. Try writing one, just for fun.
Gulping Naglinong
Isaeahanon
ako makaron
apang bangod sa
pagpanumdum mo kakon
rang painu-ino gulping naglinong.
Maeara
May 21, 2008
ako makaron
apang bangod sa
pagpanumdum mo kakon
rang painu-ino gulping naglinong.
Maeara
May 21, 2008
Ginahikap-Hikap
ginahikap-hikap
ku ungang baye
ro tiyong kuring sa idaeum it biseklita
siin baea
si Nanay makaron?
Maeara
May 3, 2008
ku ungang baye
ro tiyong kuring sa idaeum it biseklita
siin baea
si Nanay makaron?
Maeara
May 3, 2008
Kon Hikit-an Ko
Kon hikit-an
ko si Edna Sunz
madumduman ko dayon
ro bag-ong buskad nga Sampaguita
nga gatan-aw it bag-ong ugsad nga buean
***Maeara
April 30, 2008
ko si Edna Sunz
madumduman ko dayon
ro bag-ong buskad nga Sampaguita
nga gatan-aw it bag-ong ugsad nga buean
***Maeara
April 30, 2008
Kahapon
Kahapon
gatanga eang ro pueang bougainvillea
sa eangit
pero kaina
gaharu eon imaw sa eugta
***Maeara
April 30, 2008
gatanga eang ro pueang bougainvillea
sa eangit
pero kaina
gaharu eon imaw sa eugta
***Maeara
April 30, 2008
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Sunday, March 01, 2009
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