Yes, But Make It Good

Plus 10 tips on how to do it for yourself. Write, read, garden better.

I am prompted to underline my thoughts regarding GOOD or great in relation to learning and reading. I am prompted due to comments in my previous article http://writinghood.com/writing/no-time-to-read/. The article was written to encourage you to explore haiku as a poetry form or even, in a broader context to read poetry if you have no time to read fiction (as in my case).

No Time to Read

In this busy life today there is never enough time to read a book; poetry gives me moments in a day where I can flick through the book and read one or two with my cup of coffee or on the bus, or waiting at the doctors.

Try it … you might get to love it too.

Haiku Writing

Poetry has many forms that have either changed over the years or become very much of a tradition; staying the same. Haiku is one of the prose areas that has done both.

How to Write a Haiku

Haikus are fragile little verses that carry immense poetic weight and provide a formidable creative workout for the poet.

The True Haiku and Its Origins

I’ve seen many “takes” on the idea of what a true haiku is supposed to look like lately, but even though there have been some brave and near-successful attempts, because no one seems to quite get it, I thought it best to put up front, sooner than later, the true definition of haiku and its origins.

Haiku-Style Poems

Some writers compose poems in Haiku style. Poems written in this style often leave the reader scratching his/her head and wondering if what they just read was meaningful.

The Haiku

A haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. The English version consists of three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable count.

What is a Haiku

Description of haiku and how to do one.

What is Poetry? Haiku Part Three

How to get into the habit of haiku. Third in part of a series of finding your own way on the haiku path and retaining the authenticity of haiku.

What is Poetry? Haiku Part Two

How to haiku and do it well. 2nd in part of a series of finding your own way on the haiku path and retaining the authenticity of haiku.