Hey everyone!
Thank you all for your participation in the first haiku workshop! It was awesome to discover your creations. And congratulations for making a haiku and putting it out there! It's not as easy as it looks.
Here's an exhaustive selection of the pieces that were made for the workshop:
A few things to take away from these productions:
- Snails have a strong roaring tendancy, and even madly roaring in the worst cases.
- Some snails are hairy and need shaving. Some don't. But only the mad snail has the ability to shave things, namely here the sky of gold (love this by the way)
- Some words have been more inspiring than others. "mad" and "roar" have been the most used, on the other end, "prize" was never used.
- All in all, the worlds depicted are a bit bleak, as themes of fear and madness are prevalent, and living beings in it cope by roaring a lot. The absence of trust also comes a few times, source of doubt and interrogation. Not sure I'd like to live there.
- Fall and spring backgrounds were mostly used, summer and winter deemed particularly snail-unworthy. Fall being the snail season it kinda makes sense, but I'm pretty sure there's plenty to be told about winter and summer snails too. Maybe we can explore that some other time.
- "Snail" really was a tricky kigo! As it has no other possible meaning, it constraints quite a bit what you can evoke with it. It's really fun but also it's harder to make significant variations. I'll try to pick an easier one next time.
That's it for a quick analysis, but I'm sure there's still a lot to be said!
Don't hesitate to comment with your thoughts, and also let me know if you want another workshop or if you have any suggestions concerning this kind of event.
Thanks and see you soon,
MarechalBanane