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Xyphlan · Posted 02-26-2013, 09:55 AM

I agree with your comments about haiku. They might be cool in Japanese, but the often lose their appeal when translated, and have become little more than a punchline in English. I think my favorite haiku was one that I wrote, which goes

All haiku are dumb
This one is no exception
I am so meta

I can't say I know too much about the history of sonnets, though I do recall learning that there are several types. I'm pretty sure that mine are Shakespearean in form.

Free verse can be nice, but it's almost too difficult for me. Without a pattern to follow, I don't know what to write, so I fear that it will just end up as bad prose.

		#4	Xyphlan Lazy
I agree with your comments about haiku. They might be cool in Japanese, but the often lose their appeal when translated, and have become little more than a punchline in English. I think my favorite haiku was one that I wrote, which goes All haiku are dumb This one is no exception I am so meta I can't say I know too much about the history of sonnets, though I do recall learning that there are several types. I'm pretty sure that mine are Shakespearean in form. Free verse can be nice, but it's almost too difficult for me. Without a pattern to follow, I don't know what to write, so I fear that it will just end up as bad prose. In all likelihood, you just read a clunky wall of text. There's no need for me to make you read even more in my signature.
	Posted 02-26-2013, 09:55 AM