MissSunflower

The Musician             and The Strange Love Affair Together they swayed. Though the music was not for the movements of the flesh, the soul had no whim other than the gentle rhythm and nuances eased out of the strings by one no so much as playing the music, but simply its catalyst into the world. The bow slid low across the strings, his fingers skipped high, sometimes with a vibrato of fevered excitement or unknowable pain and sadness; sometimes with barely a touch. The instrument herself shone in her curvaceous form, her neck almost curving behind his. With the flow of music they bobbed and rocked like the last couple on the floor. Though

A word about haiku I believe there are a few basic precepts about haiku that are largely overlooked, or just flat out just not taught in most basic literary (poetic) courses. Everyone seems to know that a haiku is suppose to be written in the structure of 5-7-5 syllables per line respectively, but there is much more going on than just a simple syllable constraint. I shall attempt to give a brief overview of the main points about haiku. First off, the 5-7-5 syllable structure most often cited as being the sole 'structural rule' of haiku is based on the original Japanese constraint. However, the Japanese language and more specifically their w