Readers & fellow bloggers! I am back with this post on poetry forms and this week it is a haibun. Haibun is a slightly different poetry form as it involves a prose before the actual poem and this is what makes this a unique poetry form. Do read about how it is written and few examples on it below! Enjoy! Haibun is a poetic form … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Haibun
Readers! This week’s poetry form is Haiku. Read below how it evolved and how is it regarded as one of the best written forms today! A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression. Haiku began in thirteenth-century Japan as the opening phrase … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Haiku
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