Project Description:

Members of WHCpoetrybridge have formed a haiku group to study and practice writing haiku using fragment and phrase techniques. This is an open study group and not limited to members of WHCpoetrybridge. To join this group contact WHCpoetribridge Director Karina Klesko at Karina3884@aol.com.

Ray Rasmussen will lead the study group. John Daleiden will record the activities of the group at WHChaikujournal.blogspot.com

The instructions for the exercise are at this blog. They are also posted at

http://raysweb.net/haiku_writers/haikucompositionexercise.html

Two Element Haiku Composition Exercise # 1:

This exercise is modeled on Timothy Russell's approach which focuses on developing the skills of description, of writing 2-element haiku, of getting yourself out of the haiku, of learning to describe without embellishing or 'telling'.

The goal is to start by writing descrptive phrases, but NOT to try to compose those phrases or turn them into haiku [that comes later].

Step 1:

Step 1: Understand your goal. Read these three articles:
Ray Rasmussen: Two Types of Haiku
http://raysweb.net/haiku_writers/twotypesofhaiku.html

Jane Reichhold: Fragment and Phrase Theory
http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm#frag

Michael Gunton and George Marsh: The Two-Image Haiku & the break in haiku http://www.haiku.insouthsea.co.uk/two-image.htm