Creative Heart: A Purple Haiku

Purple Haiku

Khara E. House
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Jun 23, 2010 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here."
Royal innovations,
Steeped in vanda orchid blooms-
Sense my soul blossom

Published by Khara E. House - Featured Contributor in Arts & Entertainment

Khara House is a Featured Arts & Entertainment contributor with a passion for creativity in any form. Khara writes primarily on the topics of Arts & Entertainment, Creative Writing, and Education. Her work c...  View profile

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  • Laura Everly2/10/2011

    Nice job....laura Everly

  • Randy Batay-an, PTRP8/23/2010

    I have not seen the contests 'rules', I am probably DQ anyway. If they are strict then the 18 syllabic content will really DQ you (which deprives them of one beautiful entry). Others have stuck to the 17 syllabic quantity but have not observed the 5-7-5 traditional per line meter (I saw 5-6-6 arrangement). By the way, I am writing "haibuns" for the fun of it, you might want to critic some. thanks!

  • Khara E. House7/5/2010

    Thank you all for your comments! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Unfortunately it looks like I might be disqualified due to a last-minute word change: I changed the first word of the first line to "Royal" at the last minute because I wanted "blooms" in the second line (I think at first it was "Innovations bloom") ... which made the first line 6 syllables. Whoops. Technically "traditional" Japanese haikus are only 5-7-5 in Japanese, not English, so maybe they'll have mercy :)

  • Kay Balbi7/5/2010

    Very nice Kara

  • Orchiolum6/25/2010

    Nicely done...enjoyed vanda orchid mention.

  • J L Carey Jr6/24/2010

    This is really nice Khara.

  • Nina Marshall6/24/2010

    Excellent imagery. Good luck! :-)

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