Tag: POETRY

Whitecaps on the bay: A broken signboard banging In the April wind. – Richard Wright, courtesy of Wikipedia Ah, the timeless art of haiku. This beautiful form of Japanese poetry has now been made into a Flash game, Haiku Hero. And if that sounds like a bad idea, there's a reason for it. I just don't think that composing "timed haiku" really conforms to the spirit of the art, and ...

We're no strangers to potentially inappropriate versions of Internet memes, but why not apply that same inappropriateness to haiku? Indecent Haiku offers plenty of 3-line gems covering topics like sex, alcohol, love, and nature. Like any good haiku site, they allow you to submit your own. Their submissions page even offers a reminder of haiku structure (5-7-5) and their take on good content. If ...

Rhyming dictionaries are great, not only because they help us finish off our salty poems, but also because they introduce us to spiffy new words like "Mashantucket." WriteRhymes is a handy little resource for any aspiring poet - or anyone who like to annoy their co-workers by needlessly speaking in rhymes. Type some text in the box, alt + click a word, and suggested rhymes appear in a balloon. ...