I think it depends on if your automatic format settings are on. I also use MS Word and just tried that, and it didn't work for me. Using one at the end of a haiku line, enter the second space before you make a carriage return (ha, and that shows my age, doesn't it? = "enter").
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You've had some good responses here so I won't repeat that useful advice, but would like to also remind you that punctuation contains a visual element.Īn ellipses can be used to subtly underline, say, a notion of "footprints" or of trailing off a colon is like a wall to be climbed a semi-colon is a crumbling wall, not so daunting a dash is a span to cross, offering time to think etcįanciful, yes, but haiku are allowed to have a graphic element too and I quite like playing round sometimes to try and reinforce that.Īnd, of course, our punctuation carries in-built pauses, even when one is reading silently - a comma is a short pause, a fullstop a long pause, and so on.īTW I much prefer the em dash - if you're using Windows you type a word, enter a space, type the dash, enter a space and type the next word and then when you enter the next space, lo and behold a hyphen becomes an em dash. I think you have chosen the fitting punctuation for your two haiku, but i also think that both of them, due to their syntax, would work without any at all. The important thing is to experiment, try out different marks or no marks, and see what comes closest to what you're trying to convey. If you have the fragment first, and an article (definite or indefinite) begins line 2, you often don't need any punctuation. I'm sure others do it differently, though. IMHO, the ellipsis tends to fade/dissolve from one image into another, while the dash is a sharper shift, almost like an interruption, or a lead-in to a surprise. Sometimes you might want to include a dash or ellipsis to make the reader pause for a heartbeat or two before moving on. If I had not included the dash, as well as reading "from the homeless man's trumpet, 'Ode to Joy'", the haiku could be read as "cherry blossoms from the homeless man's trumpet", which is of course complete nonsense. Here's an example of mine from this year's Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival: Punctuation is necessary to clarify, sometimes, especially if you have a word at the end of the fragment that could - but for the sense of the haiku should not - be attached to the phrase.
So there are various ways of approaching the use and non-use of punctuation. You seem to be okay with punctuation, and writing some good short haiku too! -)Īs you read more and more haiku, you will notice that punctuation choices are often a poet's preference more than a strict rule. MATCH 1 SESSION 3 "SNOWMELT"/"MELTING SNOW" (KIGO) WHC/Japan Times online Renga Tournament 2002 Sometimes I use two n dashes, although a single m dash is fine too.Ģ. I really like your clay jar haiku, and the punctuation seems perfect to me.Īgain, I like your haiku and the punctuation appears fine to me.
So haiku evolved from this longer poem called renga or renku, and would link up with the following verse, so that's why so many haiku appear incomplete, yet so much. Good question, because people have different approaches regarding punctuation.Īs haiku evolved from hokku which was just the starting verse of a longer poem where each verse was written by a different poet, haiku is often seen as an incomplete sentence.
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