Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend. I had a busy weekend because I had to work. I am at work now, but have my coffee-break, so I have a little time to publish our new episode of our wonderful Haiku Kai.
This month our theme is LOVE and for today I have chosen a nice challenge for you. I love to challenge you to create a so called "acrostic" dodoitsu. Let me first tell you what "acrostic" means:
An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet.
An "acrostic" haiku example, acrostic: ONE:
Only eyes for you
Naked she lays down on the beach
Everlasting love
©️ Chèvrefeuille
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| sunny beach |
But today I love to challenge you to create a Dodoitsu, that's a 4-line Japanese poetry form, let me tell you a little bit more about the Dodoitsu:
Dodoitsu is a form of Japanese poetry developed towards the end of the Edo Period. Often concerning love or work, and usually comical, Dodoitsu poems consist of four lines with the syllabic structure 7-7-7-5 and no rhyme or metre.
An example of a Dodoitsu:
One Night
one night I searched for a star
what I found was a full moon
now my every day is
full of shooting stars
© Ben Gieske (2012)
So the goal of this challenge is to create a Dodoitsu with the "acrostic" LOVE, the first characters of every line need to form that word.
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until February 16th at noon (CET). Have fun!
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