Haiku written in one line

[Gabi Greve]

I tried to answer on the BLOG, but it did not work, so I put it up here again.

Feeling my way around one-line haiku with help from Penny Harter
by Gene Myers on October 24, 2011
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2011/10/24/feeling-my-way-around-one-line-haiku-with-help-from-penny-harter/comment-page-1/#comment-5067

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A Japanese haiku comes in three sections:

kami go (the top five section)
naka shichi (the middle seven section)
shimo go (the lower five section)

So, given the natural rhythm of the Japanese language, it is easy to recognize these sections when spoken.

Writing these three sections usually depends on the Japanese paper you are given.

On a small slip (tansaku) it goes from top to bottom.
On a square decoration sheet (shikishi) it goes in three lines, usually from right to left.
NHK Haiku writes in three lines from right to left, name of the artist most left.
Very seldom it is written in three lines from left to right, the Latinized way.
With a wordprocessor, it comes out as one line, from left to right, if not formatted differently.

So, there are many ways to write it in Japanese too, but ALWAYS the three sections are clearly discernable.

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A  one-liner, one-line poem found in the ELH magazines is usually a different thing altoghether.

Gabi
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2000/07/one-sentence-haiku.html
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[Dave Russo]

Hi Gabi, I restored your comment on the blog post. You can see it now at: http://bit.ly/ut0zLn

[Gabi Greve]

Thanks, Dave!
Gabi