Pollen - haiku??
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Powerful sneeze-
wind stirred seeds
lift tissue sales.


any guidance appreciated, i'm bran new to anything short form.
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Hey Tom, I don't know much about haiku (not saying this is one), but I like it, especially the alliteration, slant rhyme and play on 'lift.' My only advise would be to put a comma after sneeze and use the en dash after seeds for pause between the concrete images and the 'tissue sales'. Cheers/Chris
My new watercolor: 'Nightmare After Christmas'/Chris
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#3
for me it's more senryu than haiku because of the tissue sales which aren't exactly in the moment but that said i wouldn't change it.
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(10-06-2014, 07:48 PM)tomoffing Wrote:  Powerful sneeze-
wind stirred seeds
lift tissue sales.


any guidance appreciated, i'm bran new to anything short form.

reads well to me though i am against using upper case in haiku/senryu.
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#5
Powerful sneeze-
wind stirs seeds
lifts tissue sales.

...would be my suggestion.

Paul
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(10-06-2014, 07:48 PM)tomoffing Wrote:  Powerful sneeze-
wind stirred seeds
lift tissue sales.
any guidance appreciated, i'm bran new to anything short form.
Something about this I like, though rhyme isn't used much in haiku. Also - pollen is not seeds. Maybe something like this ~

powerful sneeze
wind-stirred dust
tissue sales lift
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