Saturday, July 06, 2013

Lessonful Incident.

So...  
I'm gonna post a three liner piece of writing..

hah!!

well..there's also a story behind it.

I'd written this an year back..Actually i was searching for a poetry site to publish my very first poem (as suggested by my friends) . I encountered with a site called "Fanstory" . I made an account on it .
You Can confirm My account here  : Fanstory


Now, it was the step to post my poem. I , Very excitedly, clicked on "WRITE" option on my profile and opted the "poem" option from the list. Then , it was like boomm.. A page appeared asking for  Up-gradation  of the membership to post poems or any other kind of writing & it was a PAID up-gradation with an amount of few dollars. Now, who's gonna pay and indulge in so many formalities to publish just ONE  poem  and  HOW !!
So, i just dropped the idea to publish my poem there and thought of searching any other FREE  OF COST site.

 I was just about to log out when  my eyes went on a link saying somethings like "5-7-5 poetry contest".
I clicked on the link and saw an opportunity to post my poet for free without knowing the significance of this "5-7-5 poetry" ( Such a Kid i was ! ).

I just submitted my poem as the contest entry. I started getting reviews from the senior poets. Man ! They were ( are)  really matured poets and  really really wonderful ones. Instead of laughing at my stupidity, they very calmly and helpfully made me understand that it was a contest for a special kind of writing called "5-7-5 or Haiku" . I can't post ,like ANYTHING here.

They made me understand that HAIKU is a special kind  of writing with 3 lines and 17 Syllables.  OMG ! What are these syllables now ??  ( I'd understood that this poetry world is not for me ,lol)
Still, i asked them, they answered me but it all went up from my head !!
Atlast, I concluded, Syllables = Words . ( Height of Dumbness).

So, i replaced my POEM with HAIKU with my RULES !! hah!

SO, My HAIKU writing  was as below :

Was Sitting Around and Thinking,
Will My life raise or  keep sinking ??
Answer is hidden , Eyes Blinking !!  
Wow ! What a writer i am na ?? :P
So i replaced my contest entry with this one. 
Guess what happened next??
Exactly!! IT was not a HAIKU .
HAIKU is a piece of writing with 5-7-5 symmetry mean 3 liner and 17 SYLLABLE writing and not a 17 WORD writing.  Even After a lot of efforts from 2-3 poets , i didn't get the meaning of SYLLABLE.
Finally, a Heartful poet helped me out of my mistakes, he corrected my writing and made it a HAIKU :
Sitting and thinking 
Will life raise or keep sinking 
My eyes keep blinking

Since that day till now, I'm still not 100% sure about what SYLLABLES really are but i got to learn a new STyle of writing that i'll never FORGET, i.e, " HAIKU"  And a Real fact that SYLLABLES are never Equal to WORDS !! huh




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