Contemporary Haiku
English haiku looks something like this: one to four lines, no strict syllable count but brief, and often with a long/short or short/long asymmetry. source: the haiku foundation

Dean Kuch and I wrote two books of horror haiku. Our horror haiku followed a gothic romance story. Dean died last year but I am continuing the story without him and thus our book's story has changed.

A brief synopsis of books one and two.

In 1509, Elua, a divine dark angel mated with a powerful human witch named Naamah. They had a daughter named Mirela. When she turned 18 years old, she married Count Claudiu. They lived in Romania at Bran Castle. After two years, Claudiu died of a sudden heart attack and his Mirela was left behind with a broken heart and in a deep depression.
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I added the links below in case you wish to read our books.

Hora Haiku: A Gothic Tale of Terror by Gypsy Blue Rose and Dean Kuch click here

Hora Haiku (Horror Haiku) by Dean Kuch and Gypsy Blue Roseclick here

Thank you for reading,

Gypsy

******In Memory of Dean Kuch******


What is a haiku?
haiku are short, imagistic poems about things that make people feel connected to nature. Japanese have written haiku for hundreds of years.
haiku form
japanese poets usually write a haiku in 17 (Japanese syllable sounds) in a short/long/short pattern of 5/7/5 on. These 'on' are shorter than english syllables. English haiku tends to be less than 17 syllables.

Basically, a haiku gives the reader a sense of something happening at a specific moment in time...an event, an object..something that caused the writer to pause and take notice. A haiku should share a moment of experience of awareness with the reader, peace, sadness, mystery...these are only a few of the emotions that evoke haiku. In haiku we have to give the reader words that help recreate the experience, the image or images that gave us the feeling. telling the reader how we feel does not make the reader feel anything and does not make a good haiku. (Willian J. Higginson)

William J. Higginson was an American poet, translator and author most notable for his work with haiku and renku, click here for source

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