How are you supposed to write a haiku? If it has the right number of syllables and says what you wanted it to, then it is complete. There is no way to improve it - although that does not make it perfect like Poul Anderson's. Today, I constructed:
Wind around the roof,
Leaf shadows through closed curtains,
Heard and seen within.
An English tutor got us to list adjectives and nouns describing a place that we had enjoyed visiting in childhood, then told us that this was material for a haiku. I wrote:
Line with worms on hooks.
Tide moves in and out and then
Line has fifty fish.
My few brief attempts at prose sf are on other blogs.
For further discussion of haikus, see here. (Scroll down.)
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I am fortunate to have a copy of STAVES, a collection of Anderson's poetry. But I regret to says it did not include "Mary O'Meara," "The Battle of Brandobar," and "The Queen of Air and Darkness."
Ad astra! Sean
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