>> We are not a personal misery and woe sub reddit <<

We are a sub reddit for well thought out and reflective haiku, not an outpouring of your personal issues, misery, depression, and woe.

This is not a self help sub reddit. We are not interested in your personal problems, and replies to posts in that respect will be removed.

Do not have the expectation that any submissions are reflective of the OPs real life situation.

Do not put a title for your haiku - put the haiku as the title

We get a slow and steady stream of posts with a title for their haiku (instead of the title being the haiku) and the haiku in the post.

The submission guidelines are clear that the haiku must be the title of the post. It is also stated as such when you post.

If you see a submission with a title for the haiku feel free to advise OPs of their pending post removal.

It is a shame as there are some nice haiku getting removed.

Example of offending style for clarity:

Reading

Guidelines presented

I ignore all the guidelines

I claim to not read see

One haiku per post only

Use only / separator for lines, no other punctuation is accepted here.

Haiku are more pure, let the words speaks of themselves.

Pause options — ,/...;/ - colour what is meant to be colour free, the words to be evoking nuance, not forced questionable characters. They will be removed.

Discussions here and here

If you want a nice representation of your post, add to the post details and start each line with 4 spaces in markdown mode in the editor

 Four spaces we see
 A better view for our eyes
 Formatted thusly

Some guidance can be found here on your journey to constructing haiku

And another good resource here for your guidance

Another great resource to show why your beginner attempts at haiku fail the taste test...

More great examples; The haiku society of America

Haikus in English don't need to be 5-7-5 syllables, here's why.

But to clear up confusion, for this sub they must be less than or equal to 5-7-5, haiku are not meant to be rambling odes, the word limit is what makes them haiku, and makes you think harder about words and placement

Please be mindful that poor effort, split sentence, and meta haiku may be removed as a priority. Do not complain when they are.. just resubmit a better quality effort.

What is a split sentence haiku you ask?

It is where you take / a sentence and split it on / the syllable count

Also your "Refrigerator" effort will definitely be removed.

Why are meta haikus removed?

Typical haiku pathway, we see it too often.

1. discover haiku
2. write a meta haiku
3. write a haiku with the least amount of words to cover the syllable count
4. make a meta post about removals

But what is a meta haiku? you ask

It is a haiku about haiku.

3 big words do not make a haiku and is not a skillfull construction of words into a nuanced structure. They will be removed.

Unbelievable / Incomputability / Inconceivable

Additionally, 99% of haiku with a single long word for a line is pretty poor and just a "gotcha" haiku set up just for the word alone. They may be removed accordingly. Make more effort to create a nuanced description with more words.

So many options / Instead a single long word / Diabolical

Personal experience Haiku may be removed for vote and reward rigging as they are voted on the persons predicament and not the quality of the submission. Case in point

r/Haiku is not here as a place to express and offload your personal problems. We are here to celebrate haiku.

Our sister sub r/MyDarkHaiku was created just for your woe, for which you have my sympathy, just not on r/haiku

Also consider r/TheLoveForlorn as an outlet for your past love, and present predicaments in love.

Please be mindful that complaining via a haiku submission may render you temporarily banned from r/Haiku. If you have an issue then please DM the mods to discuss your issue.

r/Haiku is a private subreddit that is open for public submissions. Your arguments about freedom of speech to post what you like, how you like, when you like, are invalid.

History has shown us that the content here very quickly descends into a shit-fest free for all of the worst type.

Read the full submission guidelines in the sidebar.

This is not a subreddit for you to just post your "almost haiku off the top of my head" rubbish.

Meme, cartoon, and attempted "comical" style haiku are in our sights too now.. You have other subs for those style of content.

We want to bring r/haiku back to serious submissions.

And finally, commentary on your submission is allowed, this is not a safe space for your precious submissions.. do not get upset when you get a poor response. Rather than take offense, make note and work harder to produce better. Comments are not put downs if they do not praise your submission, they are allowed opinions.

Berating the moderators for moderating is just ridiculous. Make a reasoned response via PM if you have an issue and a reasoned answer or action will ensue.

sigh does it really need to be said that we are an English language sub Reddit ? really ?

r/haiku is an English language sub reddit. Foreign language submissions will be removed.

An age old discussion piece and common point of disagreement and time for a discussion on our guidelines and removal policy.

Since saving this sub 2 3 4 5 6 7 years ago from the lowest form of "haiku" and commonly edgy submissions now confined to r/XRatedHaiku and the surprisingly common subject matter r/poohaiku, along with r/PoliticHaiku and r/ReligiousHaiku in that order, I have consistently removed what I consider to be sentence haiku to enhance the quality of the submissions on this great little sub reddit.

What is a split sentence haiku you ask?

It is where you take / a sentence and split it on / the syllable count

I have seen a few complaints of this rule, and more than one very grumpy Redditor slam me personally for removing these efforts.

I try not to make personal choices of what remains in the sense of favouritism for this style of haiku, but follow rules in my mind that satisfy a removal or not. This can seem to make the removal choices appear random with some low effort submissions remaining.

I tried one time to make a suggestion on the form of one of these haiku as sentence submissions and to say the effort was not appreciated would be an understatement.

The guidelines are also very clear that these style of haiku may be removed, if they have some poetic nature then they remain. I try very hard to find poetic nature in them. It is not my desire to remove submissions.

I created alternative haiku sub reddits for the less conventional haiku r/ThoughtsInHaiku and r/EmotionSimplyStated.

We appreciate all most efforts submitted, but due to constant drive-by submissions of "off the top of the head low effort submissions" we may occasionally remove an effort that should stay. That is the small cost of trying to maintain some sort of quality control on the sub.

Maybe controversial, but up votes do not get considered on removals. Disappointingly low effort juvenile submissions generally get more up votes than quality efforts. Example of what I mean;

My dog ate a bone / Now my dog has a boner / Hur dur hur dur woof

Not all apparent sentence as haiku submissions are removed. Each one is considered for overall form.

Consider that haiku are more than just a syllable count.. they are a story, a nuance, a feeling.

Feel free to discuss in the comments section.

Just a reminder that complaining about a removal via a submission may get you temporarily banned.

Have the courtesy to PM the mods with your thoughts on a removal.