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濁れる水の流れつつ澄む
nigoreru mizu no nagaretsutsu sumu
--
the muddy water,
flowing,
becomes clear
Haiku by Santōka Taneda, (1882-1940)

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Special edition: two weeks time to post your haiku!

4 OR MORE @steembasicincome shares jackpot!

Best haiku award: n. 2 steembasicincome shares

Popular choice award: n. 1 steembasicincome share

Best vote comment: n. 1 steembasicincome share

SPECIAL HALLOWEEN RECORD AWARD sponsored by your Bashō-fish herald @marcoriccardi:
if we break the previous record of 19 participants, AND we reach at least 12 vote comments, I will sponsor personally a WHOLE DOUBLE SET of prizes!
So, IF at the end of the 2 weeks, this Edition gathers 20 HAIKU AND 12 VOTE COMMENTS, there will be
TWO BEST HAIKU AWARDS (2 SBI each) +
TWO POPULAR CHOICE AWARDS (1 SBI each) +
TWO BEST VOTE COMMENT AWARDS (1 SBI each) =
6 PRIZES, 8 SBI TOTAL!!!

For those that want to unleash their poetic potential, here is how this contest works:

• Look at the prompt image and let yourself be inspired by it.

• Write a haiku related to the prompt image. The haiku should be composed by 3 verses with no title. The 1st verse should be 5 syllables long, the 2nd verse should be 7 syllables long, and the 3rd verse should be 5 syllables long again.

• If you aren’t confident with English enough, you can write your haiku in Spanish, French, or Italian as well. Only remember, if you write in languages different from English, please include an English translation for other readers.

• Post the haiku on your blog or in the comment section below this post. If you make your own post, don’t forget to put the link to it in the comment section below!

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Don't forget to use the tag:

#haikucontest

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Watch out for the @bananafish comment to this post, under which you can cast your vote (and try to win the Best Comment award)

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Join the Bananafish Realms on Discord and chat with us: https://discord.gg/ZWmEUWT

Prompt Image:



[photo credit: @f3nix]

OR…
WRITE A HALLOWEEN THEMED HAIKU, using or not using the given image at your choice!

Do you want to know how we evaluate the submitted haiku? These are the characteristics we search for:

• Kireji (切れ字), a cut between the 1st and the 2nd verses, or between the 2nd and the 3rd; the cut can be grammatical, as a sign of punctuation, or it can be a cut in the meaning, like two different images.

• Kigo (季語), an explicit or implicit reference to a season, that defines the time of the year in which the haiku is composed or referred to.

• Sabi (寂), the sense of the inexorable passage of time, the beauty or serenity that accompanies the advance of age, when the life of the objects and its impermanence are highlighted by patina and wear or by any visible repairs.

• Wabi (侘寂), the taste for frugal and natural things, rustic simplicity, freshness or silence; it can be applied to both natural and artificial objects, or even non-ostentatious elegance.

• Mono no aware (物の哀れ), empathy with nature and human life; the "feeling of things", nostalgia, regret for the passing of time, understanding of the changeability and of the transience without suffering.

• Yūgen (幽玄), sense of wonder and mystery; it represents the state of mind produced by the inexplicable fascination of things, the feeling of an 'other' universe, full of mysterious unity.

• Karumi (軽み), beauty in simplicity; poetic beauty reflected in its simplicity, free from preconceptions and moral judgment.

• Shiori (しおり), gentleness; the levity and the delicate charm that radiates from the verses, where things are evoked in the reader without aggressiveness or excessive explicitness.

Submission deadline: Wednesday 7th November, 11:59 PM, GMT -7 (Pacific Daylight Time).

The results will be out on Thursday 8th November, 1:00 PM, GMT -7 (Pacific Daylight Time).

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LET’S BREAK THE PARTICIPATION RECORD!

Your spooky pumpkin oni

@marcoriccardi

Let’s the Bananafish Tribe grow together!

The wise potassium kami Bananafish wants all of its beloved people can benefit from rich upvotes. For this reason, knowing that unity is strength, it asks for SP delegations and for numerous commitments to the voting trail.

With delegations, @bananafish VP will grow and consequently the upvotes given to every contest entry will be higher. @f3nix, @theironfelix, @raj808, @brisby, @maverickinvictus, @cyemela, @marcoriccardi, @calluna, @oivas, @anixio, @ntowl, @tristancarax are the names of the proud Bananafish Knights who already delegated a fraction of their SP to this project.

Following the voting trail is a way to make sure you always support the other participants to the Bananafish contests, automatically upvoting the posts (but not the comments) @bananafish upvotes. @foffelius, @steelochlaver, @f3nix, @marcoriccardi, @anixio, @gwilberiol, @brisby, @calluna, @ntowl, @dirge, @iamthegray, @seesladen, @theironfelix, @letalis-laetitia, @vdux, @felixgarciap, @tristancarax, @khasa are already in the trail.

Join the Bananafish Realms on Discord and chat with us: https://discord.gg/ZWmEUWT

If you’re interested, here you can find all the information needed.

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Bananafish Tribe supports @anarchyhasnogods project called Collective Intelligence. Cheers to our yellow-finned buddies @theironfelix, @dirge and @f3nix who are moderators in the @co-in community.

This is a promising model, which rewards quality based on a decentralised consensus protocol… what does it mean? You can submit worthy posts to the @co-in platform and hopefully this will result in some interesting upvotes for the author. Many submission to Mizu No Oto and Finish the Story contests have already received upvotes from Co-In, so what are you waiting for? Go choose high quality content and submit it to the Collective Intelligence!

Join in at Co-In site here!
https://collectiveintelligence.red/

Or join on Discord channel to interact with the community!
https://discord.gg/sx6dYxt

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If you like this contest..SPREAD THE WORD! We're grateful for your resteeming and word of mouth. Everything helps to grow together!

GOOD LUCK, BRAVE HAIKU POETS!

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...And don't forget, every Wednesday: