Tuesday, February 04, 2020
hashtag haiku
Here is the first example:
#amwriting #joinme
#amwondering #whattheheck
#hashtag #haikurocks
Now I don't want to make a big deal out of it, but I will point out several things: First, hashtag haiku is related to link haiku, and this one is related to total link haiku: every word is a link, or in a link; each link leads somewhere; and it's still haiku, except that this one has no reference to the seasons. i like reference to the seasons, so i'm a bit disappointed when i don't have it, but, you take what you can get.
i will also say quickly that such things go unnoticed. nobody cares if your haiku has links or even if it's good; it generally falls on deaf ears so to speak. no problem. i have invented something here and i don't expect to have the best one on the first try. i will ultimately rely on the wider world, the hive-mind, so to speak, to make it into a sport or even a pastime. but i'd like to point out the ways in which it's worthy, briefly.
first is that it dumps a haiku into many different communities. the #amwriting community is a community of writers, so that's perhaps the most valuable of them. some, like the #joinme community or even the #amwondering community, are nothing to speak of, until I make them into a community which i'm not really actively trying to do.
the haiku community itself missed out on this one, since #haikurocks is probably not a community, but i could make #haiku #rocks, and then it would plant itself in the haiku community, and people who care about haiku would presumably see it. see how this works? ideally i am using all the good hashtags, and still making something that would qualify as poetry.
there is a #whattheheck community; i've seen it. i'm sure they don't care about hashtag haiku. also the #hashtag community, which presumably cares about hashtags itself; you get the idea. you can work these communities, if you can fit them into your poetry. i don't need anything out of them, except to read a good haiku and like it. am i asking so much?
now here's another one, just so you don't think the above one is a flash in the pan, so to speak:
all th' #superbowl #hype:
instead, do #hashtag #haiku
'n' watch all th' #commercials
now if we look at this one a little carefully, we'll notice a couple of things: first, it has a season; the super bowl is early february every year, and we know that. second, it lands in the #haiku community, unlike the other one. but it's not a total hashtag haiku, as several words fall outside the hashtags, or, why make a community out of #watch, or #all, or #instead? there's no point. these would be communities of one.
when i say communities, i'm referring to twitter. blogs like this one don't care about these hashtags, that i know of, or, people don't use them to find stuff on blogs. same with facebook; it has hashtags, and they're links, but people don't use them much, that i know of, though this could change.
instagram is a place that uses hashtags a lot. but the spirit of instagram is in the pictures. these don't have pictures, though they could.
no, this is a twitter phenomenon. and using twitter for poetry is rebellious, against the grain, but not unheard of. join me! on this site i'll gladly link to any hashtag haiku.
#amwriting #joinme
#amwondering #whattheheck
#hashtag #haikurocks
Now I don't want to make a big deal out of it, but I will point out several things: First, hashtag haiku is related to link haiku, and this one is related to total link haiku: every word is a link, or in a link; each link leads somewhere; and it's still haiku, except that this one has no reference to the seasons. i like reference to the seasons, so i'm a bit disappointed when i don't have it, but, you take what you can get.
i will also say quickly that such things go unnoticed. nobody cares if your haiku has links or even if it's good; it generally falls on deaf ears so to speak. no problem. i have invented something here and i don't expect to have the best one on the first try. i will ultimately rely on the wider world, the hive-mind, so to speak, to make it into a sport or even a pastime. but i'd like to point out the ways in which it's worthy, briefly.
first is that it dumps a haiku into many different communities. the #amwriting community is a community of writers, so that's perhaps the most valuable of them. some, like the #joinme community or even the #amwondering community, are nothing to speak of, until I make them into a community which i'm not really actively trying to do.
the haiku community itself missed out on this one, since #haikurocks is probably not a community, but i could make #haiku #rocks, and then it would plant itself in the haiku community, and people who care about haiku would presumably see it. see how this works? ideally i am using all the good hashtags, and still making something that would qualify as poetry.
there is a #whattheheck community; i've seen it. i'm sure they don't care about hashtag haiku. also the #hashtag community, which presumably cares about hashtags itself; you get the idea. you can work these communities, if you can fit them into your poetry. i don't need anything out of them, except to read a good haiku and like it. am i asking so much?
now here's another one, just so you don't think the above one is a flash in the pan, so to speak:
all th' #superbowl #hype:
instead, do #hashtag #haiku
'n' watch all th' #commercials
now if we look at this one a little carefully, we'll notice a couple of things: first, it has a season; the super bowl is early february every year, and we know that. second, it lands in the #haiku community, unlike the other one. but it's not a total hashtag haiku, as several words fall outside the hashtags, or, why make a community out of #watch, or #all, or #instead? there's no point. these would be communities of one.
when i say communities, i'm referring to twitter. blogs like this one don't care about these hashtags, that i know of, or, people don't use them to find stuff on blogs. same with facebook; it has hashtags, and they're links, but people don't use them much, that i know of, though this could change.
instagram is a place that uses hashtags a lot. but the spirit of instagram is in the pictures. these don't have pictures, though they could.
no, this is a twitter phenomenon. and using twitter for poetry is rebellious, against the grain, but not unheard of. join me! on this site i'll gladly link to any hashtag haiku.
