Experience – Haiku
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Experience is
The reward we get given
For being alive
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©DGA 21 August 2011 12:02
Experience – Haiku
Adeeyoyo's Blog
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Experience – Haiku
~~~
Experience is
The reward we get given
For being alive
~~~
©DGA 21 August 2011 12:02
Adeeyoyo's Blog 
22/08/2011 at 5:40 am
that one is the perfect haiku
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22/08/2011 at 6:47 am
Thanks Sidey. 🙂
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22/08/2011 at 6:18 am
Yes Denise, the adage goes: If you don’t get anything else, you shall get experience.
I am afraid this doesn’t fit into the Haiku format strictly.
Roughly speaking, it is two divergent images in two lines followed by a third, a statement that establishes the relation between the first two. In the classical style the first image should indicate a season. Also, Haiku is less philosophical and pedantic. It is just to create a spontaneous feeling ‘ah’.
Nevertheless, this is fine.
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22/08/2011 at 6:42 am
Thank you Sunamu! I know virtually nothing about poetry, my friend. I just write what comes to me. But I do know about that ‘ah’ feeling with haiku and this one did sound very pedantic to me. I love haiku about nature, flowers, seasons, etc. but I am learning still… maybe one day… I really do appreciate what you have told me and will try to keep it in mind.
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23/08/2011 at 10:23 am
Your poems attest your creative abilities Denise. Nobody needs to. You are a very good poet without any doubt. You have such an easy flow and natural instinct to poetise your experience. My only objection was to it being called a Haiku. Not to its content. I just did not want you unwittingly join the bandwagon of poets who pass their poems as Haikus which they are not. No hurt intended or pedantry envisaged. Sorry if I hurt you by my statement.
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23/08/2011 at 11:14 am
I understand what you meant, Sunamu, and I wondered whether to remove the word ‘haiku’ from the title. But then I’m not sure which others are also incorrectly named… I think I should refrain from using the name at all, rather than get it wrong. I am not offended by what you said, in fact I appreciate your honesty rather than letting me continue using the term incorrectly. It appears there are many forms of Japanese poetry and it seems that some poets lump them all under the misnomer of haiku. I thank you again for clarifying your comment and for the compliment re my poetry. I must say I am aware of sounding pedantic often in my writing, and have to consciously edit it out of my work.
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22/08/2011 at 6:59 am
If we have the wisdom
to incorporate it
into our being.
Nice stuff, Denise.!
John
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22/08/2011 at 8:12 am
Hahaha, excellent John x 2, both your haiku and the advice! Brilliant! Keep well…
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22/08/2011 at 10:21 am
Hiya Denise..I never thought of it like that but it is true. experience is the reward…. without it none of us would be any wiser or have lived life to the full.
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22/08/2011 at 11:48 am
That is so, Patrecia… Hope yours is good. 🙂
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22/08/2011 at 12:37 pm
and we got to truly be living to get it…smiles.
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22/08/2011 at 3:24 pm
…and to know how best to use it… 😀
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22/08/2011 at 5:37 pm
… a reward, I might add, that often takes a lifetime of experience to appreciate 😉
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22/08/2011 at 7:53 pm
Oh yes, Ruth…! 🙂
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22/08/2011 at 6:52 pm
So true!
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22/08/2011 at 7:54 pm
Yes it is, we just have to recognise and use it, BV. 😀
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22/08/2011 at 8:47 pm
Experience is
most times learned not by
success but failure.
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22/08/2011 at 9:23 pm
Yes, Carl, I think it probably is.
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22/08/2011 at 11:15 pm
YES! If you stay on this side of the dirt, you actually learn a few things. 🙂
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23/08/2011 at 2:11 am
The thing is not to get disheartened, but to learn and adapt.
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