Haiku, the smallest poetry form in the world, is a Japanese form of poetry. It means the "beginning" without any end.
Hence it is also called as "unfinished" poetry that is left to the reader to finish based on his or her own understanding, feelings or emotions in reaction to the imagery or the dream that it creates. In that sense, it involves the reader to create his own extraordinary-experience-from-the-ordinary.
I am not even worth the salt in light of the subject of Haiku. But still the self-proclaimed experimental-unreasonable me dared to create a version of Haiku called Maiku© with some inherent advantages that I thought of. I found it very useful for my own self.
Haiku: An IQ¹-picture painted
Create thy meaning beautifully heeded
Here is a MaiKu on My-Haiku.
The second one captures Maiku's essence as brought out here-under while comparing it with the characteristics of a typical Haiku that the first one captures.
Differences between MaiKu and Haiku
While one may find a lot of literature on Haiku, here's how a Maiku differentiates itself from a HaiKu.
Haiku is usually communicated in a single breath.
MaiKu may be broken preferably in not more than 3 logical pieces in order to communicate it's construction.
MaiKu may be broken preferably in not more than 3 logical pieces in order to communicate it's construction.
Haiku is 5+7+5 sounds or syllables.
MaiKu is an interrelation of (preferably) not more than 3 small rhyming-phrases without restriction on words though.
MaiKu is an interrelation of (preferably) not more than 3 small rhyming-phrases without restriction on words though.
In order to provide for the continuity of the dream or story the author may have in her mind, she may write a number of Maiku's in sequence. But at the same time each one should be capable of being standalone to catch a couple of breaths of.
Haiku recommends imagery.
Unlike Haiku, MaiKu may be used to quickly freeze a topic of interest, complex or simple, particularly when a poet or even a writer is hard-pressed for time to express her thoughts elaborately.
Relevant subject can be expanded and developed as an article later on when time permits. In fact, MaiKu is a smaller poem or a micro/tiny tale that may potentially contain a larger poetry or a larger story that can be subsequently expanded. In that case the phrases in Maiku may necessarily contain key words freely flowing (like the freaking trouser legs in picture) on the subject under consideration.
In fact, this blogpost itself is the sequel to the Haikus that I wrote here.
It's very useful to express oneself and gain audience that is busy enough to consume anything more than a few Tweets.
It helps you to stay positive by engaging you in subtleties of each moment. It doesn't give crying people an opportunity to cry if they fall for it.
It also might relieve you off fear or tension if the situation is dissected looking for positives in it and then expressed in lighter vein in the form of a MaiKu or Haiku. I just freak out the word 'tension' for instance by a Maiku:
Shun the tension!
Look at the free-flowing oxygen,
Exchange greetings at muscle's junctions!!
Footnote:
1. Here the IQ actually represents IQ+EQ+SQ: Intelligence Quotient, Emotional Quotient, Spiritual Quotient
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