haiku by Lothar M. Kirsch
The poetic contest of Bananafish, now with an increased jackpot to 5 SBI!
52 SBI shares + 7 STEEM + 9.44 SBD distributed over 300 entries!
3 @steembasicincome shares first prize + 2 dedicated to the interaction of the participants!
From this week onwards, the prize for the Best Haiku will increase to 3 SBI!
To encourage participation in the reading of the other haiku in competition, and to express their preference with meaningful comments, from this week the awards for the Popular Choice and the Best Vote Comment will be awarded only if there will be at least 5 voting comments.
I remind you that only votes and comments that express a single preference and are posted under the @bananafish comment that says "cast your vote down here" will be considered valid.
For those that want to unleash their poetic potential, here is how this contest works:
• Look at the prompt image and let yourself be inspired by it.
• Write a haiku related to the prompt image. The haiku should be composed by 1-3 short verses with no title. The classical haiku form is 3 verses of 5/7/5 syllables, but other forms are allowed, as long as they remain in absolute brevity.
• If you aren’t confident with English enough, you can write your haiku in Spanish, French, or Italian as well. Only remember, if you write in languages different from English, please include an English translation for other readers.
• Post the haiku on your blog or in the comment section below this post. If you make your own post, don’t forget to put the link to it in the comment section below!
Don't forget to use the tag:
#haikucontest
Watch out for the @bananafish comment to this post, under which you can cast your vote (and try to win the Best Comment award)
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Prompt Image:
[photo by @marcoriccardi ]
• Kireji (切れ字), a cut between the 1st and the 2nd verses, or between the 2nd and the 3rd; the cut can be grammatical, as a sign of punctuation, or it can be a cut in the meaning, like two different images.
• Kigo (季語), an explicit or implicit reference to a season, that defines the time of the year in which the haiku is composed or referred to.
• Sabi (寂), the sense of the inexorable passage of time, the beauty or serenity that accompanies the advance of age, when the life of the objects and its impermanence are highlighted by patina and wear or by any visible repairs.
• Wabi (侘寂), the taste for frugal and natural things, rustic simplicity, freshness or silence; it can be applied to both natural and artificial objects, or even non-ostentatious elegance.
• Mono no aware (物の哀れ), empathy with nature and human life; the "feeling of things", nostalgia, regret for the passing of time, understanding of the changeability and of the transience without suffering.
• Yūgen (幽玄), sense of wonder and mystery; it represents the state of mind produced by the inexplicable fascination of things, the feeling of an 'other' universe, full of mysterious unity.
• Karumi (軽み), beauty in simplicity; poetic beauty reflected in its simplicity, free from preconceptions and moral judgment.
• Shiori (しおり), gentleness; the levity and the delicate charm that radiates from the verses, where things are evoked in the reader without aggressiveness or excessive explicitness.
Submission deadline: Wednesday 23th January, 11:59 PM, GMT -7 (Pacific Daylight Time).
The results will be out on Thursday 24th January, 1:00 PM, GMT -7 (Pacific Daylight Time).
I wish everyone good luck!
Your haiku dealer
Let’s the Bananafish Tribe grow together!
With delegations, @bananafish VP will grow and consequently the upvotes given to every contest entry will be higher. @brisby, @calluna @cyemela, @dirge, @f3nix, @gwilberiol, @marcoriccardi, @maverickinvictus, @ntowl, @oivas, @raj808, @theironfelix, @tristancarax, @michaias, @felt.buzz are the names of the proud Bananafish Knights who already delegated a fraction of their SP to this project.
Following the voting trail is a way to make sure you always support the other participants to the Bananafish contests, automatically upvoting the posts (but not the comments) @bananafish upvotes. @foffelius, @steelochlaver, @f3nix, @marcoriccardi, @anixio, @gwilberiol, @brisby, @calluna, @ntowl, @dirge, @seesladen, @theironfelix, @letalis-laetitia, @vdux, @felixgarciap, @tristancarax, @khasa, @iamthegray, @stever82 are already in the trail.
Join the Bananafish Realms on Discord and chat with us: https://discord.gg/ZWmEUWT
If you’re interested, here you can find all the information needed.
[banner credit: @f3nix]
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