cocoon
universal default
While this haiku could be about anything (and it is, in fact, about many different things), I’m posting it now to offer my thanks to more than a few people who have gone to Amazon.com and purchased my book in the past week. I should probably also thank the folks who bought it before.
So thank you, whoever you are.
Your feedback is also appreciated. Please feel free to let me know you bought it, and what you think of it.
Yum Yum girl
rule of thumb #21
secondhand haiku: forgotten arts
The secondhand haiku has returned. This time Anthony (whose 17-syllable tribute to Harry Kalas kicked off the series) sent one in the old-fashioned way. For those not familiar, Anthony is the man at the helm of My Sick Mind, where he is also known to spin the occasional haiku. I enjoy and recommend his insights into the seemingly mundane, which he posts quite regularly.
If you aren’t familiar with the secondhand project, please click here to view the entire series and get a little background. If you wish to add some of your own haiku goodness, click here to find out how.
a little credit
I’d mentioned before some of the benefits of hosting my haiku images on Flickr. Turns out there are drawbacks as well.
Yesterday I noticed one of the haiku I wrote a couple years ago (and scribbled for a handwritten post last year) was getting a noticeable amount of unattributed notoriety on various social networking sites. The same haiku has also gotten a bit of proper attribution in the past on some of the same sites, which I wholly appreciate, but lately a few Tumblrers with decent followings of their own have taken to simply copying the photo, or quoting the haiku, and giving no credit or links back to the original.
As someone who spends a lot of time creating these haiku and the corresponding images, this is frustrating. Nobody enjoys having their work go uncredited, or worse, credited to someone else. I’m no exception. It’s not that I expect to make large sums of money, or to achieve great fame, through my written efforts, but when a handful of these efforts gets noticed by a wider audience, it would nice to at least be recognized for the effort I’ve made.
I even have a specific license spelling out the terms under which I allow others to share my work. I have never had a problem with folks using my images or the haiku, provided they give me a little credit — or at least a little link love.
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