ISSUE 1 - 7th February 2019
Find us Offline and Online
NEWS POETRY ARTICLES DIARY DATES REPORTS PUZZLES
Please send us your haiga
INFO
Turton Tower – where it all started!
We are nearly 1
……………………
Piku………. Find Four Shortforms blackberries drought pinhead clusters
Piku was probably formed by a group of bored students. It is based on the mathematical ‘pi’ being 3.14. That is 3 lines, 3 syllables in first line, 1 in second, and 4 in the third. National Pi Day is March 14th. I wonder why? Google search ‘piku poetry’, there is plenty more to enjoy. (E.P.M)
haiku
naani
tanka
piku
Incidental Haiku
Haiku…….
Where it all began
leaves flutter downwards branches sway gently in wind cool forest walks
Nearly a year from now three individuals joined together to create an opportunity for themselves and like minds to come together. There are poetry groups but not many that specialize in short form, and so it was decided at Turton Tower’s drafty tearoom in Bolton that they would start something up, weekly, that would allow discussion as well as reading and writing. After several Thursdays at Turton Tower’s Tea Room huddled up with handwarmers and hot tea and even an extra portable light the decision to move to Costa Coffee being now base camp was made. Incidental Haiku was founded by Elaine Morris (poet), Ian Hill (poet and writer) and Steffie Rowling.
Senryu…….. restful measures many past dinner drinks – shut eyes open Haiku……. evergreens wait, stand tall green glory soley will be theirs watching the fall
Meeting – Thursday 7th February 2019 A report by Kristen In the haiku workshop, we covered many forms of poetry. Haibun Haibun is a type of poem telling a story, followed by a haiku, which links back to the poem it follows. As I misspelt this word the first time I heard it, due to its pronunciation being ‘haiburn’, my way of now remembering its correct spelling with the suffix ‘bun’ is with the association of Elaine and how she sometimes likes having the Belgian buns from costa! Liz created a lovely haibun describing a journey which was shared. She described the landscape on-route and included plenty of nature imagery. This was the haiku at the end of her piece: The tide is at low ebb, This still body of water- directionless, Looking for the unseen moon.
Linda also shared some of her work, and I particularly admired her haiku (see below): Glowing in sunlight, Skeletal tall conifers, Beauty seen in nature
Elaine even had one of her nanni poems about snowdrops acknowledged by the National Trust.
Other forms discussed at the group included: Pascal’s Triangles Based on Pascal’s triangles, as used in geometry, this method demonstrates the syllable count of two forms of poetry: Pascal’s Rose rose petals fondled drop down finding childs hands and jam jars of water (the numbers) 1 11 121 1331
Pascal’s Punter betting he had more chance to win the lot, most probably (the numbers) 2 22 242
Have a go … Feel free to send us your pascal, or haiga, we can put it on the website for you, just email to steffie@incidentalhaiku.com. Thank you.
Diary Dates
What could we learn from
Meeting - 14th February 2019
their Landay ?
10.30 onwards - Costa Coffee (base camp) Hopefully we will have the window seats and progress in our usual relaxed manner
The poetic form traditionally performed by Afghan women is 22 syllables long and contains 2 lines
Meeting - 21st February 2019 10.30 onwards ‘The Kitchen’ on Great Moor Street. Yet another visit to this community treasure that cooks the best seasonal vegetarian grub for miles, on our first visit we created them a great haiga.
- 9 syllables in the first and then 13 in the second. The poem ends with the sound “ma” or “na.” Sometimes they rhyme, but more often not. In Pashto, they lilt internally from word to word in a kind of two-line lullaby, it shows the sharpness of their content, which is distinctive not only for its beauty and wit, also it’s ability to articulate common truths about war, separation, homeland, grief, or love. The couplets express a collective fury, a lament, an earthy joke, home, or the need for the
Get in touch
end of separation, all of which
We love submissions whether they are articles, haigas, micropoetry, or other shorform, as well as haiku.
frustrate any facile image of a
We will endeavour to answer any of your queries
mute ghost beneath a burqa.
Pashtun woman as nothing but a
Our Website - http://incidentalhaiku.com/
It is thought that Landays came
Email – steffie@incidentalhaiku.com
into Afghanistan in approximately 1700 CE.