Inspired Meditations in Hyperlinked Haiku

Purpose:

I created this site to explore the possibilities of hyperlinking haiku poems, knowing that the medium of hypertext would encourage me to free-associate and be more prolific. I am interested in your experience as a reader of these poems. Most poems will offer at least two hyperlinks, so you, the reader, may also free-associate by following the links that most appeal to you.

What is Hyper Haiku?

Haiku is a poetic form with one stanza of three lines; the first line has five syllables, the second line has seven, and the third line has five. As long as one follows those simple rules, the form gives great freedom for expression. Hypertext links pages and sections to each other through hyperlinks. Therefore, hypertext haiku, or “hyper haiku,” is haiku poetry that contains hyperlinks to other haiku poetry and so forth.

A New Form:

From what I have gathered from searching the Internet, mine is the first site published on the World Wide Web to offer haiku poetry that follows the haiku form, makes grammatical sense, and contains hyperlinks within each haiku poem that link to other haiku poems.

An Invitation to Poets:

If you have a haiku of your own based on one of the words in one of these haiku, send it to me. As long as it follows the rules of the haiku form, I will consider adding it to this chain of hyper haiku.

My Pages:

Here is my first hyper haiku.

Here is help navigating this site.

Here is my copyright statement.

And here are some links to related sites.