Haiku
Haikus
Haiku is one of the best known and most loved forms of Japanese poetry. It is a beautiful way of expressing the moment and can inspire creativity on even our most unimaginative days. Traditionally there is form and structure in haiku composition. In its strictest form it only has essential words, and contains 17 syllables. A classic haiku is 3 lines long, made up of 5-7-5 syllables. It aslo contains kigo (season word), which suggests the mood and the atmosphere governing the poem, it can be simply a word for the season, or allude indirectly to a season that the reader can easily identify. Finally traditional haiku should include a kireji (cutting word) placed at the end of any of the lines to denote a pause or a full stop.
Confused?
How about haiku with no rules?
We would tell a story in 3 lines, it may be melancholy, reflective, philosophical,or just how you felt your day went today.
A sprinkling of humour I believe always reaches the parts of the heart and the mind that are sometimes closed.
Some examples to start off and smile.
Red chilli pods:
add wings-
they are dragonflies.
Cold hands
deep in coat pocket
a forgotten coin
Good news in the post
my breakfast porridge
grows a skin
From the nose
of that colossal Buddha
a swallow emerges
Cool cool
the wall against my heels
as I doze midday sun
In breath Out breath
Each journey leads me home
Savasana
I know I've already broken the rules and used too few syllables. It is a really interesting challenge to say something with so much meaning with so few words. I like this!
Lighthouse on a rock -
How spiritual is your light?
Be in the water!
Thank you Dayamurti.
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Please don't throw that book of Haikus away until you've shared some of them with us.
smiling is an expression of understanding
The frog
jumps into the pond
Plop
Basso
In walking,just walk.
In sitting just sit.
Above all,
Dont wobble.
yun-men
cluching a book,
seeking god
a blind child.
empty books
of countless words,
preach a story to a blind child.
Blazing heat, sandy feet,
I hold my breath
Splash
he incense stick
Slowly dissolving in fragrant smoke
Merges with space
Empty shoes wait
Outside the shrine; minds
Full, unfortunately, inside
Sheep chew and stare;
But then, to chew and stare
Is interseting to sheep
The old forget, the
Young do not yet know, so who
Perceives the present?
If the doctors say
You will die young, prepare
Yourself for a long life
From Breathing with the mind. Verses in Senryu & Haiku Style by Kenneth Verity
My aching back
Let it go Let it go
A click
AH RELIEF
Those treasured hands.
Spices
Laughter Stories Lives
Lived and shared
In Suryaben's Kitchen
This book:
one hundred great
books in haiku
A little gem!
(is by David Bader)
FRANKENSTEIN Mary Shelley
A mad scientist
creates a ghastly monster
who just wants a hug
BLEAK HOUSE Charles Dickens
Fog, gloom,men in wigs-
the Chancery Court blights all
See where law school leads?
HAMLET William Shakespeare
His mother wed his
dead murdered father's brother!
Next Jerry Springer.
MIDDLEMARCH George Eliot
Stifling social roles
small town gossip-beware the
eyes of Middlemarch.
SIDDHARTHA Herman Hesse
The cycle of life-
as with spicey vindaloo,
all things return. Om.
More to follow
News headlines predict
Hard times ahead
Closures Cut-Backs
OH!
The sun still shines?
Friends Teachers chatter
Wander through the shady woods
Invoke
The Green Man
Published by liz on Wednesday, 20 November 2013,
last updated on Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 8:09PM
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