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Minaz Ansari's avatar

Thanks Grant. Your July Haiku on Substack notes has inspired me to document my city (Mumbai) through photographs captioned with a Haiku. I am loving it so much. Here's to making sense of the world in 17 syllables!

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Grant Snider's avatar

That's wonderful to hear, Minaz! Would love to see your work.

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تبریزؔ • Tabrez • तबरेज़'s avatar

Lovely work as always Grant! What you're creating can better be classified as Haiga, a now largely forgotten form where a painter makes a painting about a subject and writes a haiku on the same, upon the painting itself.

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Grant Snider's avatar

Yes! I found out about haiga when I made my first haikomics post :)

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Casey Bottono's avatar

Brilliant, Grant!

I love to write and teach haiku/senryu.

Haiku are about nature, but senryu focus on human foibles.

Delighted that you are sharing your process.

Take care,

Casey

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Grant Snider's avatar

Thanks Casey! I shared a senryu in yesterday's Notes, a fun form for a future month.

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Cheryl Craigie's avatar

I love this series. Thank you.

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Rose Campbell's avatar

Love, love, love these - they’re brilliant! You express so much in so few syllables - it’s really awesome! (And I betcha Gavin wishes he could write!!) 🤔😉😅

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Grant Snider's avatar

Ha, thanks! He writes songs, but I haven't been able to convince him to get in the kid's book/poetry game :)

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Rose Campbell's avatar

Definitely not just for kids!!

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Hilda Scheenstra's avatar

Really inspiring! Thank you for reminding me of the joy of writing Haiku, maybe I’ll try to write some on my holidays 😎

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Lisa mersky's avatar

Thanks again Grant for a wonderful post. I love reading and writing haiku. I am a poet and when I am stuck, i love the compressed form of the haiku to guide me!

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Sara Castaneda's avatar

Really beautiful!

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sooeun's avatar

Thank you for sharing :) You've inspired me to do Haiku July during my morning pages! Today's entry:

endless sleepless nights

yet summer's morning wakes me

her light brings me hope

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Grant Snider's avatar

Glad to hear that! I've experienced those early summer mornings, thanks for sharing the poem.

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Myq Kaplan's avatar

Dear Grant, great haikus!

Thank you for your art always!

Love, a Myq Haiku

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Thomas Cleary's avatar

“Stars skimming the earth” is just one of many unique poetic insights your haiku reveal.

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Margreet de Heer's avatar

Love them all, but the thunderstorm one resonates the most with me!

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Grant Snider's avatar

Thank you, Margreet!

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Amy Gross's avatar

Love all of these … inspiration for an activity for my weekly writing group. 💖

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Grant Snider's avatar

Glad it's an inspiration!

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Ali Thurm's avatar

Thank you Grant (from a train speeding through the English Lake District). I’m a writer- fiction and poetry. Wish I could draw. Really enjoying your haiku for July. Inspiring! 🌸

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Grant Snider's avatar

Thank you! Wish I could be in the Lake District writing poetry!

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Andrea Stoeckel's avatar

Grant, I loaned Thinking to my pastor. he lives it so much he's got it captive in his office

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Grant Snider's avatar

Nice! I like the connection, I'm the grandson of a Methodist pastor. :)

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