good examples pleasee
2007-03-28 12:42:30 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Toshogu shrine pines
I try to stay as still -
mist and dew
Alan Summers
Japan Times award-winning poet
publ."Hermitage"
Romanian haiku journal ISSN 1584-6970
Dhugal Lindsay, an Australian marine biologist won Japan’s top haiku award, The Nakaniida Grand Haiku Prize for his collection 'Mutsugoro', (The Mudskipper).
winter’s breath
on the train window
I become a nobody
a haiku from top Japan haiku poet Hoshinaga Fumio:
twenty billion light-years of perjury: your blood type is “B”
(one line haiku)
Trans. RIchard Gilbert
Pub. Modern Haiku, 35:3, Autumn 2004, pp 27-45
Top Japanese-American poet Fay Aoyagi, because of her immediacy and take on life.
long winter night
I discuss literature
with the bartender
...and with a special brand of haiku humour:
distant thunder
a space in the shelf
of horrow movies
2 tanka poems by Amelia Fielden from her book :
Short Songs
ISBN: 1-74027-188-2
By Amelia Fielden
your soft breathing
as I drift into sleep,
your soft breathing
as I wake to birdsong
and our rhythm of love
one night long ago
our mother kimono-clad
do you remember
star-flake snow falling, drifting
onto her black lacquer hair
2007-03-30 06:53:29 · answer #1 · answered by haikutec 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.edu.pe.ca/stjean/playing%20with%20poetry/Hennessey/tanka.htm
http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/
2007-03-28 13:14:04 · answer #2 · answered by blakesleefam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋