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Sensational Haiku Wednesday

Written By: Jenn - Feb• 01•12
Sensational Haiku Wednesday

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):

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)!

 

Postcard #2 from Shannon-USA

Written By: Jenn - Jan• 31•12

Postcard #2 received today, courtesy of Shannon, in the US.

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

 

Postcard from Miriam in Holland

Written By: Jenn - Jan• 31•12

Got my first postcard! (See my on-going PostCrossing project…)

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?