Home Page The Haiku Beyond the Haiku Variations
The Great Master has experienced all these.
Tohi |
(Thrombus of haiku insight) being in a perfect haiku generating situation but absolutely nothing happens—also called block seventeen |
Writer imprisoned |
Ntohi |
Haiku just seem to flow—opposite of tohi |
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Hihu |
Haiku Hunting—mentally scanning the textual landscape for five and seven syllable chunks (The Future’s Orange - 5!). |
Sharpen your pencil! |
Moth |
Thinking of a perfect haiku but by the time one has found pen and paper it is lost or goes clohi (q.v.) |
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Clohi |
(Crash landing of haiku insight) a valid or valuable haiku idea that will not go into shape |
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He-he |
Starting on a serious or insightful haiku and then some irony or pun bubbles up and forces a smile and a more light-hearted result |
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Bluh |
The opposite of he-he—a dark haiku results |
Hiding in Shadows |
Syllabosis |
The morbid counting of syllables (nine so far) in text even when not reading or writing haiku |
Quick! Call a Doctor! |
Aha |
Haiku that arrive fully formed—absence of clohi |