Well, what should we do about it? Maybe we should take a poll! Have people vote as to whether or not my haiku is valid - see if there is anybody out there who would be willing to try to use it, assuming that it can be pronounced with just one syllable?
“As Kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame . . .”
Why disqualify the rush? I'm tabled. I'm tabled.
Haha! I'll just ask Mr. Webster about it. Don't worry. Wait a sec.
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" - Dostoevksy
Well, after that's done, then I think we might need to have a little talk.
“As Kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame . . .”
Why disqualify the rush? I'm tabled. I'm tabled.
Right. Mr. Webster pronounces it as "TOH-wards".
So I guess you'll just have to make another one!
(Without the word "towards? Hihihihihi....)
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" - Dostoevksy
Originally Posted by Merriam Webster's Online Dictionary
1.) Do you have speakers so you can listen to both?
2.) Even given the fact that 'towards' is necessarily pronounced with two syllables, which it clearly is not, it isn't considered very polite to point these things out - I've finished several haikus that had syllabic discrepancies.
I do thank you for your concern.
I'm going to repost my haiku here:
They charge with vigor -
Running towards their lives so fast,
Then trip, crawl towards graves.
“As Kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame . . .”
Why disqualify the rush? I'm tabled. I'm tabled.
oooo nice haiku, creative take on mine
Then trip, crawl towards graves.
Those foxholes, forever deep
Muskets like shovels
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Oh, okay. Please don't get mad. I know you are a Haiku Great, I've read your entries and Toni likes you a lot.
I "corrected" your entry because I "thought" that it was wrong and so we can't continue doing it if it remains that way. I "just thought" that it was wrong, alright? Please don't get mad.
I've listened to the word and it was pronounced like "TOH-wards" when I first heard it but "tords" when I thought about the word contains just 1 syllable. And I live in Asia so there are pronunciation differences in this part of the world as compared in the West. But now I realized that IT is "TAWRDS".
Right. I hope everything is settled and I hope you are not mad at me. The correcting thing is second nature to me because I'm the eldest in the family and my siblings are recipients of it.
Haiku entry:
Then trip, crawl towards graves.
Begging for a man's pity
For her little err.
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" - Dostoevksy
For her little err,
Soldiers seek to bury her
Muskets like shovels.
I enjoy these little mix-ups. Makes for an interesting challenge.
Por una cabeza
Si ella me olvida
Qué importa perderme
Mil veces la vida
Para qué vivir
Muskets like shovels
Placed on my red table
Look not really good.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
Looks not really good
When Rainbowed lies and Romance
Recline side by side
Hello, dear Pensy!
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!
the whole boatload of sensitive!
— Allen Ginsberg, Howl II.
Recline side by side
stupored by sun and the pure
haze of laziness
"Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house, they are company and don't let me catch you remarking on their ways like you were so high and mighty."
Haze of laziness
Does not let me work at all
I am feeling dead.
Hi Toni!
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
I am feeling dead
Void of frenzied lights dripping
Musical color
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
Musical color
Paralyzes crumpled fears
Midnight sun is up
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!
the whole boatload of sensitive
— Allen Ginsberg, Howl II.
why did u ignore my haiku?
thanks again for saving the last line robinhood, defender of the poor and haiku victims?
Musical color
Flutes weave with players sweet breath
Talentless spider
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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