Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”

The basics: Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

Here are the rules:

Structure: While Haiku may be written by some in other styles, for THIS meme only 5-7-5 is acceptable. At least one of your haiku must be in this format.
Theme/Prompt: We have a new prompt each week, and your haiku needs to be related to it, if not include the actual word in it. Feel free to leave a word suggestion in a comment!
Linking: When you post your link, link to the blog post with your haiku, not to the main page of your blog.
Reciprocate: If you participate and post your link on my website, you must have a link back here on your post. It’s only fair.

Folks not complying with the above risk having their links removed. Don’t make me be all “Grrrr” and stuff, it makes me grumpy! Thanks for your cooperation!

This week’s theme is: Craft

A thing of beauty
A task that makes your heart soar
A moment of joy

Craft with your whole heart
Unique to you, it’s all yours
Find your true passion

Craft a world with song
Give heart to mere words, and sing
Feel it in your soul

Hands moving, instinct
From nothing comes artistry
A gift; special craft

 

Next week’s theme: Relief

‡ Folks, a quick note about comments: A few of you don’t have Name/URL enabled on your blogs, and I CAN’T comment in that case. Take a moment to enable that, will you? There are other ways to combat spam and still allow people with their own domains to leave their homage to your greatness ;) ‡

Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List (if you’re not listed and should be, please [politely] let me know!)

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog (if you don’t have a blog, post your Haiku as a comment):

<a href="http://youknowthatblog.com/tag/haiku-wednesday"><img src="http://youknowthatblog.com/SHW/shw1.jpg" width="350" height="188" alt="Join the fun!" title="Join the fun!"></a>

You can also choose to use only a text link, or either of these additional images I made for your use! Use This one (dark), or This one (light)!

Thanks, Shannon! Hope you drop by to say hi!

Miriam lives with her husband Geert, and kids Boris and Isis in Utrecht, Holland. She’s a foodie, and one of their favourite dishes is Mac and cheese with ham :)

Thanks for the postcard, Miriam!

So far, my postcards to Willi (NL), Dave (US), Willem (Germany), Elena (Belarus), Rebecca (US), and Marta (Poland) have arrived. Sevil in Russia still hasn’t received hers, and it’s been 2 weeks! I’m having trouble getting Postcrossing folks to stop by and say hello, but I have to keep in mind that often these are folks who don’t speak much English, or don’t have much to do with Blogs :)

I’m sure having fun with this! Have you joined PostCrossing yet?

Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Welcome to “Sensational Haiku Wednesday!”

The basics: Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

Here are the rules:

Structure: While Haiku may be written by some in other styles, for THIS meme only 5-7-5 is acceptable. At least one of your haiku must be in this format.
Theme/Prompt: We have a new prompt each week, and your haiku needs to be related to it, if not include the actual word in it. Feel free to leave a word suggestion in a comment!
Linking: When you post your link, link to the blog post with your haiku, not to the main page of your blog.
Reciprocate: If you participate and post your link on my website, you must have a link back here on your post. It’s only fair.

Folks not complying with the above risk having their links removed. Don’t make me be all “Grrrr” and stuff, it makes me grumpy! Thanks for your cooperation!

This week’s theme is: Silhouette

I see a little
Silhouetto of a man
…Queen can fandango!

Musical genius
Two silhouettes on the shade
Nylons rock my world

Cast please, no shadows
Your silhouette leave pristine
It is all I have

Stark reality
Nothing hidden, sharp edges
Shadows lay within

 

Next week’s theme: Craft

‡ Folks, a quick note about comments: A few of you don’t have Name/URL enabled on your blogs, and I CAN’T comment in that case. Take a moment to enable that, will you? There are other ways to combat spam and still allow people with their own domains to leave their homage to your greatness ;) ‡

Nothing makes me happier than to see new people getting “hooked on haiku”! Keep it going to make it to the Hooked on Haiku List (if you’re not listed and should be, please [politely] let me know!)

To participate in this week’s event, please use the following code in your post on your own blog (if you don’t have a blog, post your Haiku as a comment):

<a href="http://youknowthatblog.com/tag/haiku-wednesday"><img src="http://youknowthatblog.com/SHW/shw1.jpg" width="350" height="188" alt="Join the fun!" title="Join the fun!"></a>

You can also choose to use only a text link, or either of these additional images I made for your use! Use This one (dark), or This one (light)!

A few days ago I stumbled across another blog – and DRAT I didn’t save the URL – that mentioned a cool thing called “Post Crossing“. Post Crossing is such a neat service!

From their website:

“The project

The goal of this project is to allow people to receive postcards from all over the world, for free. Well, almost free! The main idea is that: if you send a postcard, you will receive at least one back from a random Postcrosser from somewhere in the world.”

This is how it works: You can have up to 5 postcards in transit at a time. Once a postcard is received, the recipient puts the code (provided with their address, which you must print on the postcard) into the system, and your address goes into the database for someone to get randomly and send you a postcard. It’s a slick, easy system, and it’s actually quite brilliant.

Now, the question is; why aren’t postal services around the world jumping on this idea? It seems like a really neat way to save their collective butts, don’t you think? Canada Post just increased prices yet again, because it can’t sustain operations without doing so. If they had more volume from things that really turn people on… you see where I’m going with this. Instead of whining that people aren’t using them anymore, they should be employing strategies that get people interested in sending things with a stamp on it again. Duh.

Hey, The Netherlands gets it – they’ve embraced the idea, and even issued an official Postcrossing stamp! How cool is that?

Anyway! I joined, and sent my first 5 out this week.

The first set went to Germany, Wichita (Kansas), Belarus, Russia, and the Netherlands. I included the address to my blog, and invited the recipients to come and say hi. So…

Hi Willi in Germany!
Hi Rebecca in Wichita (Kansas, USA)!
Hi Sevil in Russia!
Hi Willem in the Netherlands!
Hi Elena in Belarus!

Welcome to my blog; I hope you enjoyed the postcards I sent you for your collection! I can’t wait to start getting them too.

I’m going to keep doing this, and mentioning the people I send to and who I get postcards from here on my blog. It’s a really nifty way to bring people together!

This would be a cool thing for students to do too, don’t you think? Classes could do it as a group, and make it part of an ongoing Geography study.

I’m excited. Are you excited? Let me know if you join!