{"id":4935,"date":"2020-04-24T11:01:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T05:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2020-04-24T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T05:31:51","slug":"haiku-extravaganza-with-pothi-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/24\/haiku-extravaganza-with-pothi-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiku Extravaganza with Pothi.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a pandemic that is raging around us and a lot of things that we have taken for granted have now been postponed indefinitely. So a haiku challenge at Pothi.com felt like the perfect way to alleviate the mood.<\/p>\n

A haiku is a seventeen syllable poem usually about nature. The Japanese poet Basho<\/a> was a famed exponent of this form of poetry. This is a translated haiku by him:<\/p>\n

In Kyoto,
\nhearing the cuckoo,
\nI long for Kyoto.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When you write a haiku in English, you follow the #fivesevenfive structure which means five syllables in the first line, seven in the second and five in the third line. A syllable is a unit of sound, e.g., the word haiku has two syllables.<\/p>\n

What the Pothidotcomers did was frame a haiku each after a small session with me. We then decided to extend the haiku challenge to twitterverse. What started as a one day enterprise turned into a three day haikuthon!<\/p>\n

We received over forty submissions and decided to frame each haiku in digitally beautiful picture frames. We got poems about the corona virus, the beauty of nature, summer holidays, folktales and the daily routine of living in pre-Covid times. People from all walks of life emailed us- first time writers, established writers, students, bloggers, teachers, friends….we were simply overwhelmed!<\/p>\n

Here are some gems.<\/p>\n

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For more of these you can check out our <\/span>twitter moment<\/a>.<\/span> Have you ever tried writing haiku and has it lifted your spirits?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a pandemic that is raging around us and a lot of things that we have taken for granted have now been postponed indefinitely. So a haiku challenge at Pothi.com felt like the perfect way to alleviate the mood. A haiku is a seventeen syllable poem usually about nature. The Japanese poet Basho was … Continue reading “Haiku Extravaganza with Pothi.com”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[384,383,382],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7vAZr-1hB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5747,"url":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/20\/salilchaturvedi-haiku-haibun-haiga-anthropocene\/","url_meta":{"origin":4935,"position":0},"title":"Interview: Writing Haiku, Haiga and Haibun with Salil Chaturvedi","date":"March 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"We had the opportunity to chat with Salil Chaturvedi, author of love and longing in the anthropocene. 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