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The Haiku Club is a literature project established to encourage writers to explore all forms of Eastern poetry.
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New folder for beginners and help requested.

3 hours, 11 minutes ago by *somnomollior
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Hi everyone!  I have just created a new folder as part of the club's gallery.  It is called Beginners Folder, but if anyone can come up with a better name please let me know.
Currently we get a lot of haiku and other eastern form poetry submitted for consideration to be featured.  To be featured a piece has to get 6 votes from the contributors.  We don't always agree on what is worthy enough to be featured and a lot of people probably feel disappointed when their work is rejected.  I decided to create the beginner's folder for people to submit their work to as an alternative to the featured gallery.  This way people will get their work seen by other members of the club and hopefully get useful feedback and encouragement.
Trouble is I did not create this club and I do not know how to enable the gallery to pop up beside people's deviations when they click on the submit to a group option.  If anyone knows how this works and can explain it to me it will make things a lot easier.  Thanks!

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=FoxyScorpion Feb 28, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Going a little bit on what

said, I've started taking an interest in Eastern poetry, especially Haiku's. In my own Haiku's I've been writing mostly just one main idea in them, however it seems as though I should convey at least two. I've also noticed, and have had many people tell me that my Haiku's should relate more to seasons and nature, rather than other subjects, and to not have so many direct statements.

I'm not exactly sure what to do, however. I enjoy writing Haiku's, however I feel as though I'm doing something wrong. What are your own opinions? Do you feel as though a Haiku must always be to constrained to be one particular subject like seasons and nature with metaphors, or do you feel as though people should have a sense of freedom when writing Haiku's?

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~RedDragonfly Feb 29, 2012

I really like the classic style haiku which is about nature- but if emotions are your forte, delve into senryu, which are about human nature. This club accepts senryu as well.

Good article about the differences here: [link]

I think one key to a good haiku is not to place any judgement on what you're reporting. Allow me a quick example:

1
white butterfly
in the red flowers

2
sad white butterfly
in the cheerful flowers

3
ragged butterfly
in the perfect rose

1- no emotion at all
2- too much, feels forced
3-trying to express the same emotion, but using less emotional words to get the point across

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=FoxyScorpion Feb 29, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Thank you so very much for this. I think it will certainly help me.

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*moyanII Feb 28, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

haiku is a structured poetry form so i guess some rules are inevitable. artistic freedom is in your choices of expressing it within the framework of the rules. when the verses are not nature-themed, they are called senryu. we accept those as part of the haikai genre.

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=FoxyScorpion Feb 29, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Alright, that makes much more sense now. Thank you for telling me.

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