A new website spurs creativity, summer changes the flavour of my haiku, and I'm looking forwards to writing in the Sedoka style.

G'day, everyone.

I found a great new poetry website call WonderHaikuWorlds. It's brilliant. There are some very active, inspirational poets operating on the site, and you can get translations into hindi, hindustani, romanian and various other languages. It's a very international site!

I'll be posted most poems to both sites, but budding poets of haiku, senryu, or any of the other Japanese forms should definitely check it out. There's also places for cinquains, essays and other forms of writing.

Click here to see it!

Skybluethinking

My day was going so well, when I got hit by a Jeep and an electricity bill.

Well, it could be worse.

The rain is hammering our little town, and the roads are slippery.

I didn't go under it, I went into it.

And the bill isn't that big.

Such is life.

Some beautiful haiku.

Haiku Poets of Northern California

This website shows some of the winners of the Haiku Poets of Northern California's annual haiku competition.

My favourite follows. I really like the link between the chameleon's changing colours and the dominant colours of the changing seasons. Fantastic stuff.

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spring rain

the chameleon busy

being green


by Ernest Berry , Picton, New Zealand

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Hello all!

So, what's new?

I'm doing more photomanipulation and increasing the clarity of my images. Previously, I'd gone with fuzzy, soft filters in order to hide the imperfections. I'm investing in a decent camera so I can use more of my own photographs.

You wouldn't know if from my haiku and so on, but I'm something of an advertising copywriter; if you're looking for copywriting for websites, advertisements, posters or other marketing materials, I can help. If you're on Deviant art, I'll do it FOR FREE. Just as long as I can include it in my portfolio.

Other than that, I'm looking to find other Deviants in Adelaide and wider Australia. I invite you all to drop me a line.

Cheers,

Skybluethinking

Hello, all!

This is my first journal entry; it's been occasioned by Deltabeta's kind and gentle prompting.

To return DB's kindness, I shall follow his rules.

Here are his instructions:

~1. Post these rules.
~2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about their self on their journal.
~3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people and post their icons on the same journal.
~4. Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
~5. No tag-backs.

And my response:

a) I'm a brown-belt Judoka. I'm aiming to have my black belt at the next grading in May, 09.
b) I ride a Suzuki Burgman 400. For the uninitiated, it's a very fat scooter.
c) I'm a recruitment consultant, and make my living finding people for sales and marketing jobs.
d) I have six sisters, all told. They're now scattered all over South Australia, with one in America.
e) If I could have any super-power, it would be to be able to understand and speak any and all languages.
f) I have a swallow tattooed on my right shoulder, with the Latin words "Dum Spiro, Spero" beneath it. This phrase translates to "As long as there is breath, there is hope".
g) Ultimately, I'd like to be a professional writer. I'm most interested in copywriting, and telling a moving story concisely, and gracefully. Hence my preference for Haiku.
h) I've written a great many Haiku, and now I am considering expanding into Tanka. These poems follow a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern. This poetry form has been popular in Japan for over 1,300 years.

The eight people I'd like to tag are:

1) ~ littlelovelost (Read "Grey and Blue Eyes...")
2) = Princess-of-Shadows
3) ~ meisan
4) * gnato
5) * kerembeyit
6) ~ JesterSeven
7) * ssilence
8) ~ nlgaud

~sethyboy7788 gets an honourable mention, but I'm not allowed to tag him back!

Now to inform the others that they've been tagged. Mu hu ha ha ha.

P.S. The full title of what I'm reading is: Ensuring Strategic Resilience through Haiku Patterns: reframing the scope of the "martial arts" in response to strategic threat, by Anthony Judge.