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Originally posted by Lee Gurga:
One of the most important characeristics of haiku is its openendedness or element of "incompleteness." This incompleteness permits the reader to experience the poem from the inside rather than the outside. As I look at these haiku, Martin, they all, with the exception of the two with rhetorical questions, are end stopped, thus depriving the reader of opportunity to become a co-creator of the experience. Lee
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Many thanks, Lee, for having looked at those haiku and for your feedback.
Do you mean by "end stopped" that there is a period (punctuation) or is it more about the content? What are some of the ways (besides using a question mark) that a haiku can be openended?
Regarding the first one I sent:
Crickets near corn field:
Is this grand recital for
The ears of the corn?
Stephen Collington rewrote this as
crickets in chorus:
under the moon the corn stands
with attentive ears
I really like what he did with it. But it's not openended -- is it? Or am I missing something about what you said?
Martin