In many ways all creative writing has been done before, but we still get occasional surprises.
I'm not a big fan of the Harry Potter books but they did great increase book reading habits of schoolboys who'd normally never go near a book.
There are a lot of people writing verse or doggerel that they call haiku partly because they think all is needed is 17 English-language syllables in a three line shape.
There are a lot of people who write in English trying to copy what they think is Japanese haiku, but often don't read translations of modern or even contemporary Japanese haiku.
There are a lot of people write PoMo
(Post Modern) short verse often labelled as haiku, correctly or incorrectly.
Poetry can still be powerful, especially if it touches people's needs during bereavement, other loss, love, spiritual matters etc...
Poetry can still be powerful when dealing with social realism, as in George Bush Jr's wife attack and boycott on US poets who argued against another Gulf War and invasion of another people's culture, religion, and country.
Poetry is a need for people whether they just read some stuff, write a few poems, or are transfixed by haiku when it's written well.
It's the New Romantics influence that we must only publish never before written lines in a poem. With a 26 letter alphabet in the English Language that's a tall order.
I feel allusion is frowned on in ELhaiku because it is seen as plagiarism, which is a great pity.
If I'm not allowed to write a haiku because it's seen copying another culture's form of poetry, and that Summer has been said already, and that cicadas have been said in poems, haiku, Natural History documentaries, and in nature books, when someone Japanese took me to Sumadera, and we heard of the legend, then I am truly lost why I cannot mention words said before, and cannot utter them in words.
Then it is truly the end of Summer(s).
the end of summer
tsukutsuku-bôshi heard
at suma temple
Alan Summers
Co-Winner, Japan Times community anniversary haiku competition (2012)
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/alan-summers-is-prize-winner-for-japan.htmlSometimes I just need to write, to speak to me:
baby photos
from my birth mother…
how do I say hello to me
Alan Summers
Publications credits: The Heron’s Nest (June 2012)
I say yes to keep writing, and even trying new styles:
recurringdream#16.333iso/overbreakfast
Alan Summers
Publications credits:
fox dreams ed. Aubrie Cox (2012)