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I see a lot of blogs now a days posting 3 liners or 4 liners (which are often great) but the end of the para says Haiku Heights
What exactly is meaning of that and what is purpose of that. Are they similar to the Hindi Doha or Marathi Charoli?
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Visit the haiku heights website and you will know. Every day they give a topic. You can write a haiku, post it on your blog and submit the link at haiku heights. Just like IndiVine. 
Do those bloggers who write Haikus follow the rules or do they simply write some short poem like things which I tried to do today. 
keep a watch on BA's WOW...i see a person posting supposed 'HAIKU' regularly that are a paragraph long...its strange the person calls it haiku
Modern haiku has no limits
[ For a moment, I was wondering what BA is. I never won any prize there ]
limits hai...log follow nai karte.....itna mota paragraph haiku kaise hoing?
Break the big paragraph into smaller haikus.
What is BA's WOW
.. divide those paragraphs to haikus.. multi haikuism may be 
Vijay BlogAdda's Write Over Weekend ( WOW)
Ranith plural of HAIKU is HAIKU only :P not Haikus! Vinay will be angry :P
Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry. A short poem not consisting more than 17 syllables. But today's haiku are more liberal with that.
Haiku heights is a site where they put up prompts weekly for haiku. Anyone interested writes on the given topic(prompt) and links back to the website.
Can you write an example here for any word Lets say INK?
Just for the info, plural of haiku is haiku and not haikus.
Striving from within
Destiny not so clear
Life moves on
Is this a haiku?
ja haiku heights mei post kar de
According to my VERY limited knowledge, yes. 
pankti mujhe kabhi
gosips ke link
nahi deti
( hindi haiku )
ND [[ rolling inditalk smiley ]] [[ for your haiku ]]
Pankti
ND What? 
I should publish a 10 word post on my blog?
I'm already feeling bad bad that these days, none of my posts are crossing 400 - 500 words
add a sketch to it...it'll become bigger
munna ploughing fields
Main kabhi
Gossip
Nahi karti
No, Munna doesn't plough fields. He is the king of this world.
aap karti
gossip
kabhi kabhi
Ranjith
wah wah too all haiku-artists [praise]
Nice topic Vijay
ND, as you a haiku professional ( :P ) , why don't you write a haiku on IB?
u r one too...u just wrote a haiku....u only write...fyi i find them little boring these days
No I'm not
Anyway, here is one :
Smilies galore
Spreading smileys
Every second
రాముని కాలపు సీతమ్మ
ఆ సీతమ్మే మాయమ్మ
తన గుండె గుడి చేసే ఉయ్యాలా
ఆ గుడిలోన దేవుడు ఉయ్యాలా
ఒక్కడే ఉన్నాడు ఉయ్యాలా
ఒక్కడే ఉంటాడు ఉయ్యాలా
- సుందరాకాండ
ayYO! rajnikant's haiku??
Nandu, no it is a telugu song.
Listen here - not the entire song - just from 03:00 to 04:00. I loved the song, the people and their expressions.
ayYo
Nandini said
And opened her mouth
ayYo
Nandini said rajnikant
And then opened her mouth
ayYo
Ranjith said Nandu
And opened his mouth
Deal
You forgot
Unfair
huuurrrr
huuuuuuurrrrrrr
huuurrrr
( hurrr haiku )
hurr haiku [[ rofl inditalk smiley ]]
By the way, did you watch that video?
You did not even ask the meaning of those lines.
Lemme write some malayalam Haiku..?
Razi Write
മഴയായിരുന്നെത്രേ
മനസ്സിന്റെ മരുഭൂവിനെയന്നും
നനയിച്ചതും പിന്നെ, കരയിച്ചതും ..!
aayYO AAmmaa
Razi, now translate it to English!
ND, For you is ayyo and ammo a part of every south Indian language?
Ranjith.. Ayyo Amma is in almost every South Indian Language right..?
A poem I wrote today morning sounds like a haiku and I wondering if I should publish it. 
Are we ( I ) making fun of haikus?
Yes
No
Don't Know
smiley haiku??
But haikus sound good
Smelly to smiley haiku
.
I
explaining
The meaning of your smileys
Yo yo
I said yo
Now I'll go!!!
haiku has a ku 
wah wah Shri [serious praise]
Is the name of this smiley ku?
Will ND or Ranjith pls post a good Haiku on the subject of rain ?
VP. visit Sfurti's blog. She regularly writes Haiku and poems. You will find good ones there.
Vijay - The basic thing to understand in a Haiku apart from the 17 syllables is the 'turn'. You must give a contrast in the end. Many writes today would write the haiku as a statement, which does not serve the purpose.
If I may, here is what I could write on the subject of rain for you.. in 5,7,5 structure.
O! new leafs in rain!
glittering with raindrops and dew;
will you feed insects?
"I taste it
It's not salty..
Its rain drops,
Cloud's tear drops !"
A "tryku" (a try for haiku)
Razi, beautiful one
razi...thats not haiku...haiku has only 3 line with 17 sylable
ND.. its simple..
"I taste it, It's not salty..
Its rain drops,
Cloud's tear drops !"
its 3 lines now ..
I am gonna break that 17 syllable rule 
Thank You PM 
Nice one Diwakar!
Cool Razi... rules are made to be broken only [wink]
Diwakar what is the 5 7 5 structure?
Vijay There should be 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second line and 5 in the third line.
Rain
Rain Rain
Rain Rain Rain
Ranjith... shaabaash .. waah waah..!!
rain rain rain rain rain
rain rain rain rain rain rain rain
rain rain rain rain rain
( this is correct one 17 syllable )
ND Mine is IndiTalk Smiley Pattern haiku
urs is half inditalk pattern...mine is full inditalk pattern plus 17 syllabl too
Why syllable
is they are the syllabus..?
I dont have 17 syllable !!
I don't know why the word Haiku reminded me of a Sunil Shetty song- Hai huku hai huku hai hai, ye ladki mere saamne...
I said, haiku has a KU
Prasanna, your Sunil Shetty reminded me of 'Anna' and that in turn reminded me of Rajni [sigh]
haiku also has a u
I have I..
VP, I too didn't know what this haiku was all about...but one cool evening, Sfurti explained me...it's a different thing that I understood it then and there that haiku was not for me [grin]
Thanks all for your replies Despite all your kind replies I still could not decipher what a Haiku is. What are 5 7 5 syllables and how is it constructed.
vi - 1 syllable , jay - 1 syllable
vijay - 2 syllable
prabhu - 2 syllable
vijay prabhu - 2+2=4 syllable
vijay prabhu sings ( 5 syllable )
vijay prabhu sings bad songs ( 7 syllable )
vijay bad singer ( 5 syllable )
understand haiku now?
I don't know whether VP got it or not, but I understood it. Thanks VP, due to you I understand how Haiku works
Vijay sings!
Haha ND I have always been a bad singer I got 50% of it
O! new leafs in rain!
glittering with raindrops and dew;
will you feed insects?
now how does this be a 5 7 5 Haiku?
actually the middle line seems 8 syllable
O! new leafs in rain!= Each word has one syllable. Hence 5 syllable
glittering with raindrops and dew;= Glittering has 3 syllable and raindrops has 2. Hence, 3+1+2+1+1=8
will you feed insects?= Insects has 2 syllabus. So it would be 5
So, I guess, this one is 5-8-5
yeah....right @pankti
Thanks Pankti got it now.
Welcome VP
nobody is thanking me
Thanks ND for your Hurr Hurr and Hurr Haiku
maine syllable bhi seekhaya...kisine thank u nahi bola
ND THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME UNDERSTAND HAIKU. (All caps thanks)
yeh huwi na baat for a moment i thought..dono mere se haiku seekha to aapas mei kyu thank you bol rahe hai
Meri ye majaal ki mai Indispy aur IndiPetrol se uljhu. Na baba, aag se darr lagta hai
And no one is thanking me for inspiring others to write haikus on this thread
Thank you Ranjith for not hijacking the thread 
I never hijacked threads.
Now even I myself learned the geography of Syllable
yeh thanku se jada taane maare hai
That was my Thank You !
Razi Thank you for your thank you
Though true haiku stick to the 5-7-5 pattern, English haiku often circumvent this rule. So the main thing is: three lines, 17 syllables at the max.
Once you get the hang of it, they're really fun to write!
Zainab.. would you write some in your mother tongue ..?
@Razi Ayyo, vendaaa! I express myself better in English than in Malayalam when it comes to written work. And I don't know the concept of syllables in Mal. Here's one of mine in English, though :)
Once upon a time
Rain meant smiles, paper meant boats -
All now drenched in age
I agree with zainab. The not more than 17 syllables rule is still followed.
5-7-5 pattern is not followed in modern haiku.
I tried an example on INK as vijay had asked.
Pleasure of writing
Is not felt in a touchpad.
I miss ink.
Why dont you post whatever you have written Sweety I did like to see what really this Haiku stuff is about
I wrote it above. Somehow the haiku didn't place itself the way it should;)
Pleasure of writing
Is not felt in a touchpad
I miss ink.
Why can't I put blanks within lines here?? I press enter after a line but when it's posted all is one line??
Pleasure of writing
Is not felt in a touchpad
I miss ink
I can
I dont know
why you cant
:( I am having these issues a lot. May be I have to upgrade my explorer.
One of my fav haiku I wrote for haiku heights:
He lay in pain,
In the pool of blood,
His TIME was up.
Nice Sweety a very high quality haiku. You may also note that though it is showing in one line here on Indi I received it correctly spaced in my mail. Perhaps you did want to contact the Inditeam regarding this
See, again!!! Arrghh....
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