tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post9014076375235434608..comments2023-06-30T14:33:11.914+01:00Comments on Carrie Etter: NaPoWriMo happily ends. And ends happily.Carrie Etterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-45137436352984081482011-05-05T22:35:48.223+01:002011-05-05T22:35:48.223+01:00Though I didn't manage to keep it up, what I d...Though I didn't manage to keep it up, what I did do was fruitful - I took 2 of the poems to my workshop last night and the responses were really encouraging. It's great having a bank of ideas to return to.Linda Blacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-79925777517049828672011-05-04T16:30:48.585+01:002011-05-04T16:30:48.585+01:00This was such a good exercise... I got to 25 days ...This was such a good exercise... I got to 25 days of writing - sometimes revising.. sometimes notes..then two days which I thought i would catch up bit didn't... wrote again in May 1,2,3 to try and make up. BUT its my first time next year I hope to do better/more. As it is I have started quite a few, finished a few and written one or two new ones. Thanks for the support XHazelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-25080029666098132522011-05-03T11:25:10.226+01:002011-05-03T11:25:10.226+01:00I crashed and burned after 20 or so poems. We did ...I crashed and burned after 20 or so poems. We did move house last week, but then you moved too so I can't use that as an excuse... I enjoyed it though, as ever, and got some good drafts from it, I think/hope.Tony Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362084536958228614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-80180707554418314262011-05-02T18:00:25.096+01:002011-05-02T18:00:25.096+01:00Oh, those are excellent! Here are a few of my own ...Oh, those are excellent! Here are a few of my own haiku, which don't begin to compare, but I'm going to put them here anyway.<br /><br />heron eats cheese<br />pigeon eats ham sandwich – <br />London wildlife <br /><br /><br />seagull calls<br />from Hungerford Bridge:<br />Waterloo sunset's fine<br /><br /><br />sun beats down<br />on row of glinting Morgans:<br />hot cars<br /><br /><br />sandpipers bob<br />at water’s edge:<br />insects’ endCatherine Edmundshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12776519177591427664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-47648678723920703302011-05-02T14:35:57.878+01:002011-05-02T14:35:57.878+01:00It was exhausting but I committed to both NaPoWriM...It was exhausting but I committed to both NaPoWriMo and the NaHaiWriMo writing prompts that carried on through the month of NaPoWriMo.<br /><br />So I wrote 32 haiku mostly in the style of gendai for NaPoWriMo, and 30 plus haiku of different styles for NaHaiWriMo, now I need a break! ;-)<br /><br />As a NaPoWriMo challenge I didn’t just go for haiku in its shasei format, but went for the more difficult gendai style.<br /><br />=============<br />gendai haiku:<br />=============<br /><br />It should be our method that we create haiku which match the times. This is not a new idea and was prevalent in the old days; even Sanki Saito wrote about it before the association existed. Sanki believed: <br /> <br />"To the difficult question 'what is new?'<br /><br />I will answer: the new means how the emotions of today's society and people are expressed to fit the times. The haiku must be innovative in any time. <br /><br />So we should begin and continue to express the emotions of the people of this time and generation."<br /><br />(Gendai Haiku, S.21.10)<br /><br />Kiyoko Uda<br />President, Modern Haiku Association<br />Tokyo, JAPAN <br />(English Translation: Akiko Takazawa)<br /><br />Here are just some of my gendai style haiku, either in three line construct or as one-line haiku (monostich) format:<br /><br /><br />don't trust the cat<br />her eyes green the earth<br />with anti-matter<br /><br /> <br />NaPoWriMo concupiscence challenge:<br /><br />Emperor of Ice-Cream<br />my life as concupiscence<br />in a kitchen stanza<br /><br />A nod to Wallace Stevens and thanks to The Columbia History of American Poetry. Ed. Jay Parini and Brett C. Miller. New York: Columbia UP, 1993.<br /><br /><br />moonrise<br />I shine your chin of gold<br />and dimities of blue <br /><br />backscattered <br />from the lunar surface <br />the universe my shoe <br /><br />Allusions (a key part of Japanese haiku) to Emily Dickinson <br /><br /><br /><br />corn chaff realising oil as one colour<br /><br />field of dreams an unborn child's color isn't rapeseed<br /><br /><br />These two are politically motivated but cloaked as shasei haiku if you want to just read the horizontal axis of meaning.<br /><br /><br />Pharmakós the name you scratch inside<br /><br />A nod to the senior military officer who wrote a poem after he witnessed the 911 Pentagon attack. His poem is now part of the big poetry and art project led by Bob Holman and Jeff Koons. <br /><br /><br />Red Sea<br />stone fish penetrate<br />my rubber soul<br /><br />An Easter gendai.<br /><br /><br />starlight and memory the sneeze of a one-eyed dog<br /><br /><br />zeros and ones<br />Monsieur Verdoux<br />takes a bow<br /><br /><br /><br />future waterfalls<br />new angel DNA bursts out<br />from dancing pinheads <br /><br />This last one is a nod to Ban’ya Natsuishi, a foremost gendai poet.<br /><br />all my best,<br /><br />Alan SummersArea 17https://www.blogger.com/profile/07472190637554124160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-18283991920902170612011-05-02T12:30:47.461+01:002011-05-02T12:30:47.461+01:00Hmm - and I thought I was too busy to write! Well ...Hmm - and I thought I was too busy to write! Well done you.<br />For me, the very idea of writing every day never got beyond Day 2 and throughout the month there were certainly a lot more days of no writing than there were days of writing.<br />On the other hand, on a few of the days I did write, I wrote a lot. Final total only five poems (fewer than March, in fact) ... BUT one of those came in at about 500 words, and one at just past 2,000, probably the longest I've ever written. How much, if any, will survive the revision process remains a big unknown for now, of course.Aidan Semmenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557740419796502719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-63432944758534165242011-05-01T22:14:31.236+01:002011-05-01T22:14:31.236+01:00Ha, I was terrible, and didn't make it past da...Ha, I was terrible, and didn't make it past day 10. But, it did put poetry writing back in my mind. <br /><br />I'd never attempted this kind of thing before. I mean, I can't even stick to the Special K plan!Aisling Tempanynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-24195943390885379202011-05-01T21:06:17.093+01:002011-05-01T21:06:17.093+01:00I wrote ten poems in fifteen days, then came down ...I wrote ten poems in fifteen days, then came down with a stomach bug which kept me company for the next four or five days so didn't feel much like writing new stuff or even reworking what I'd already written, so I went back to old stuff and finished off half a dozen or so. I know that sounds like a lot but it was only a line or two in most cases or editing a bit. It then took a while to get back into writing anything new but towards the end of April I started work on a new piece which so far hasn't amounted to much, and worked on a couple of the pieces I'd started earlier in the month. In the end I managed eleven in thirty days. Maybe next year I'll reach the dizzy heights of twelve...KennyKenny Knighthttp://www.kennyknight.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-4551745656352647732011-05-01T19:58:21.686+01:002011-05-01T19:58:21.686+01:00I'm also very glad I participated. I managed 2...I'm also very glad I participated. I managed 27, most of them short, and many of them haiku, but as my poetry output's been so slim lately, I was thrilled even with that. Whether they're good or not, I don't know, but the month reminded me of how much I get out of the process. Thanks!Joannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03961675172474667933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9857818.post-19350369700712182962011-05-01T17:34:55.954+01:002011-05-01T17:34:55.954+01:00That was terrific fun. I managed a haiku plus anot...That was terrific fun. I managed a haiku plus another poem every day, and didn't 'cheat' once. Some days I even wrote an extra poem. They're not masterpieces, of course, but that's over sixty poems to play around with and edit and tweak until they turn into something worth singing about. When I thought I was getting a bit stale towards the middle of the month I spent a few days in London, and the huge contrast in pace of life/scenery/people set me off again. There are few things as inspirational as watching a cormorant on the Thames try and fail to swallow a flatfish nearly as big as a plaice.Catherine Edmundshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12776519177591427664noreply@blogger.com