{"id":9621,"date":"2023-07-04T14:42:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9621"},"modified":"2023-07-04T14:46:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:46:30","slug":"poetry-haiku-minimalist-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9621","title":{"rendered":"POETRY: Haiku, &amp; Minimalist Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9609-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9619\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9609-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9609-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9609-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9609.png 1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Watch tennis<br \/>Rain drumming<br \/>On the roof<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I came up with the above little mini-haiku earlier, whilst watching Alcaraz thrashing Chardy at Wimbledon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I then thought I ought to look up what a real haiku is, form wise. Turns out it\u2019s traditionally three lines: of five, seven and five syllables. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to change the name: a \u2018hai\u2019, or a \u2018ku\u2019? Or a haiku-ito (Jap-o-Spanglish?), or some such. But I couldn\u2019t find any suitable Japanese diminutives!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the same poem, in the more trad form:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Watching the Tennis<br \/>The heavy rain falls drumming<br \/>Loud upon the roof<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9608-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9620\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9608-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9608-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9608-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9608.png 1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch tennisRain drummingOn the roof I came up with the above little mini-haiku earlier, whilst watching Alcaraz thrashing Chardy at Wimbledon. I then thought I ought to look up what a real haiku is, form wise. Turns out it\u2019s traditionally three lines: of five, seven and five syllables. I wanted to change the name: a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9621\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;POETRY: Haiku, &amp; Minimalist Haiku&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2vb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9623,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions\/9623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}