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Published: 2006-07-11 10:57:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 4037; Favourites: 98; Downloads: 39
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across the meadowevery step erupts
with grasshoppers
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Thank you for the permission!
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No worries at all, it really is an honour and many thanks for the 
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This is beautiful! I love that it erupts with grasshoppers... and that there is a suggestion of something/someone having disturbed them. Great job!
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Many thanks for the
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must have been beautiful!
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An experience I have had! very apt
and another I seen to have missed. . .
congrats
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An experience I have had! very apt
and another I seen to have missed. . .
congrats
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I love watching them jump, especially when there's so many of them in an area. I ended up running about to get them all moving 
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Once upon a time I had chickens and there were a lot of grasshoppers in the yard. We wanted to get rid of them, so, my daughter (9 yrs old) and I put plastic bread bags on our hands and caught a huge bucketful (ew). We then called the chickens and dumped them out at their feet. The grasshopper carnage and truly weird chicken noises were very very memorable. wow.
(sorry)
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Hehe, now that must have been a site to see and I can't even begin to imagine what the sounds were like!
Thank you shared that with me, I'm entertaining myself trying to imagine it
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Phil, dear haijin friend!...
Congratulations, i'm proud of you, and i adore this wonderful piece!
It's a great way to further inform people about the on-going spring haikuthon as well.
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Thank you very much 
Yes, and the more exposure for the Haikuthon the better
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Err, forgive me if I'm wrong, but I thought haikus were 5 7 5? This seems to be only 5 6 4.
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That's a much discussed topic about haiku in English language with two schools of thought, those that stick to the 5-7-5 format and those that go for the 'haiku spirit'. You can probably guess which camp I'm in.
Although even Baisho, the Japanese haiku master didn't stick to the 5-7-5 format all the time.
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βI Love The Image that Is Captured, But Isn't A Haiku 5 Syllables, 7 Syllables, Then 5? ._.βΊ
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Thank you
About sticking to the 5-7-5 format for English language haiku is a much argued topic - Some do, some don't. Whether a haiku in any other language than Japanese can still be called a haiku rather than a short image poem is open to debate.
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β5-7-5 Is English Derived? I Didn't Know That >.>βΊ
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Japanese haiku do use a 5-7-5 structure but it's based on sounds called 'onji', which the nearest English equivalent is the syllable. However using 5-7-5 syllables, tends to end up with much longer pieces than the Japanese equivalent so many haiku writers in English like to use less syllables to keep the pieces short.
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They are indeed. I've always found them fascinating
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I may be stupid, but this doesn't seem to be 5-7-5. I'm counting 5-6-4.
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Whether English language haiku need to stick to the 5-7-5 format or not is an on-going discussion. Many haijin who write in English tend not to follow this rule as it can lead to rather stilted verse, but still follow the rest of the haiku rules - seasonal word, word break, two seperate images joined by a shared thought etc.
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5-6-4? "every" has two syllables, if I remember correctly.
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America: ev-ree
World: ev-err-ree
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Yea...while haiku are traditionally 5-7-5, some composers choose concision over purity of form. This has some other elements that are common to haiku, as well -- a seasonal element, a sense of lightness, a fascination with small forms of nature... It's a bit like recognizing a table typically has four legs, but sometimes has three, and that three legged tables are still nice tables.
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Wow, anyone who can compare haikus to tables and make it make sense is awesome... Sorry, being random.. Nice haiku, and congratulations on the DD!
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What a perfect example of a perfect haiku.
Well done and congratulations!
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Thank you very much
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Congrats on the DD!
Geez, what is this, your third?
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Hehe, thank you
Yes, I think it is, I'm still stunned!
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Thank you very much
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This made me smile :]
and a little nostalgic, I haven't seen any grasshoppers yet but I will definitely think of this haiku when I do.
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Glad to hear that
Hopefully there shall be grasshoppers around soon, Spring can't come quick enough for me.
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Congrats on the DD BogBrush! Reminds me of the time I took a John Deere tractor when I was little through a field and all the grasshoppers were jumping on me..and stuff..hehe
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Cheers, and thanks for the
Sounds like fun, that driving a tractor lark
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Go Bogbrush! Yay! 
A BIG congratulations to you!
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