RulesWhether it is a frog jumping into a pond, wind keening through pine trees at night, your favorite song playing on the radio, gentle words from a loved one, or simply silence, sounds can be profoundly inspiring.
Submit an original poem that focuses on sound using an Eastern poetry form of your choice. Then send us a note with a link to your deviation (remember to mention the form you chose). Please include in your deviation comments that the poem is for this contest and include a link to this journal entry.
All entries must be received by Tuesday December 15th.
If you have not participated in a contest here before please consider starting now. We are here to cultivate and encourage each other while having fun.
Forms- Far Eastern
- Haiku 1, 2, 3, 4
- Senryu 1, 2
- Haiga 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Haibun 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Renga 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Tanka 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Kyoka 1, 2, 3, 4
- Choka 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Katauta 1, 2, 3, 4
- Mondo 1, 2, 3
- Sedoka 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Rensaku
- Sijo (Korea) 1, 2, 3
- Lanturne 1, 2, 3
- Southeast Asian
- Pantoum (Malaysia) 1, 2
- Than Bauk (Burma) 1, 2
- Ya Du (Burma) 1, 2
- Pathya Vat (Cambodia) 1, 2
- Go Vat (Cambodia) 1
- Luc Bat (Viet Nam) 1, 2
- Middle Eastern
- Ghazal 1, 2
- Ruba'i 1, 2, 3
Thanks to `
MSJames, ~
SOLARTS, `
Laurence55, ~
dontquestiontheninja, ~
Keraness, ~
SilverWynd, and `
jade-pandora for providing some great resource links.
If you know of an Eastern poetry form not listed here let us know and we will add it.
EntriesJudgesInterested in volunteering as a judge? Let us know!
PrizesThe top three selections will also receive the following:
If you are willing to contribute prizes for this contest let us know.

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this is a dissociation between sound and shape of letters...
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this is a dissociation between sound and shape of letters...
I read in this mora article that Japanese Haikus go by a 5-7-5 moras instead of syllables. It's intuitive in Japanese since each hirigana symbol represents one mora. However, since syllables are the closest equivalent commonly understood in English, the conversion to our standard format makes sense.
The whole point of conforming to a form is to challenge yourself as a writer, to cause yourself to think of words and phrases that might not have otherwise occurred to you. There's also something to be said for the elegance of having everything fit snuggly into a tidy rhythmic pattern, like a puzzle that falls neatly into place.
Therein lies the problem of operating on such vague definitions of Haiku: if any brief poem can count as a haiku regardless of structure, then Haikus lose their specialness; they become nothing more than little poems.
My recommendation is to avoid calling your poems haikus when they don't fit the standard 5-7-5 format. Otherwise, you'll always be defending your work, and worse yet, readers will be paying more attention to your unexpected syllable counts than to what you're actually saying.
Just my
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