NAMAIKU, the North American version of Haiku, presented at the Toronto Poets Meet<\/i><\/p>\n \u2014 Allen Sutterfield<\/p>\n<\/div>\n TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, May 9, 2024 \/EINPresswire.com<\/a>\/ — Founder of the Art Bar Series, Toronto, writer, artist, and teacher Allen Sutterfield has recently put forth a New North American version of Japanese Haiku, stating, “NAMAIKU is a 17-syllable English-language expression poem with no additional requirements. This is in keeping with North American culture and way of life. NAMAIKU is a North American haiku, making no pretense to rival its sophisticated Japanese predecessors, but quite the opposite, humbly offering itself without pretense or ambition.”<\/p>\n Elaborating on the concept, he added, \u201cThere are several conventions that haikuists \u2018work within\u2019. The most obvious is the 17-syllable maximum in a 5 7 5 pattern of 3 lines. It struck me that this was the basic root of the problem for the English writer, keeping aside cultural intricacies and differences. But the difference in languages calls for a radical adjustment, which is where I saw a possibility. I could keep a syllable count at 17, but the line pattern could be flexible, allowing English-speaking people, not just professed poets, to begin to express in words many of the \u2018fleeting impressions\u2019 and momentary awareness\u2019 ever happening in daily life’.<\/p>\n Examples : Purple Blue Red Green Umbrellas pass the open door – Rainy thursday <\/p>\n Speaking on the NAMAIKU Concept, Irwin Rego, poet, thinker, brand consultant and founder of The Poetrywalla Diaries, with published poems in the UK, stated, “There is a need to sync thoughts, feelings, and words with the cultural fabric of the continent, and Allen has something here that we should sit up and take notice. A Japanese writer says more with a lot less. English being almost opposite in nature makes it difficult for the English writer tying to follow the haiku rules\u201d <\/p>\n He further summed it up by saying \u201cPoetry is soul excavation in words, and syllables are the fun tools for the challenge when it comes to Haiku or Namaiku. Allen is a master of creative expression and words. We are looking at taking this further.”<\/p>\n The Art Bar Series recently celebrated 33 years with a meeting of established and young poets and their readings in Toronto, Canada. I S Rego <\/p>\n
\nThe leaves I gather
\nAre glances, gestures Of your quick passing <\/p>\n
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