I tried to dust off a bit my FFXIV side-account that was meant to hold potential spoilers as I played Endwalker along -> @dated-radz-at-han-coin Thinking to cross-post stuff from here and maybe upload additional musings, reference pics I’ve gathered and random things with lower threshold (this reminds me, I’ve forgotten to post a pic of that misaligned seam on the wall I found in Bestways Burrows..!).
I’ll probs edit the background at some point, though given I still have the weird Pokemon one here after all these years….
I’m going to preface this by saying that i am not an expert in ANY form of poetry, just an enthusiast. Also, this post is… really long. Too long? Definitely too long. Whoops! I love poetry.
If you ask most English-speaking people (or haiku-bot) what a haiku is, they would probably say that it’s a form of poetry that has 3 lines, with 5, and then 7, and then 5 syllables in them. That’s certainly what I was taught in school when we did our scant poetry unit, but since… idk elementary school when I learned that, I’ve learned that that’s actually a pretty inaccurate definition of haiku. And I think that inaccurate definition is a big part of why most people (myself included until relatively recently!) think that haiku are kind of… dumb? unimpressive? simple and boring? I mean, if you can just put any words with the right number of syllables into 3 lines, what makes it special?
Well, let me get into why the 5-7-5 understanding of haiku is wrong, and also what makes haiku so special (with examples)!
I have them. They came in different sets and I mostly had the smallest of each but I have all the dogs and all the cats! They’re not with me right now (they’re at my mom’s) but I happen to have taken a few pics the last time I’ve been there:
There’s a lot more accessories, I only took very few pictures.
I love them a lot!!! I never really cared about Barbies but these?? They were the coolest thing ever