.... this was my first attempt at a Haiku after my daughter & I saw the rare Green-Flash phenomenon on a beach in North Devon UK a few weeks ago.
Watching on the shore;
Sun sinking into the sea;
We saw the Green-Flash.
Do you have any examples? (either your own or some others you've enjoyed.)
2007-08-18 21:17:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
(-: I love Haiku, and there are a ton of good ones -- in Japanese. They are a quick way to capture the moment, but they involve some thought to fit into the 5-7-5 pattern.
I like yours a lot -- very seasonal.
Father and daughter
Share a seaside insight.
Shines into my heart.
2007-08-18 21:26:49 · answer #1 · answered by Madame M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do. Only really discovered it recently. I really quite like the challenge to be brief and working within a set formula. A few of my friends where I work had a Haiku comp and it created a few devotees.
I wrote these with Xmas in mind - I realise the basis of haiku is the nature theme but....it is for me just another format. There is a sort or harmonious feel to them anyway.
Give freely to all
That in doing, you receive
The greater blessing
A special time spent
Leaving behind all you were
Living life afresh
May love, joy and peace
Be a part of all you do
In the coming year
Celebrate the past
Raise hope for the coming year
Party hard right now!
The end of the year
A good time for reflection
May this time bring peace
2007-08-18 22:34:05 · answer #2 · answered by *Jellz* 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I went all through school hating poetry-my English teacher made the class compose one in Iambic Pentameter so I did mine about her and she made me read it aloud to the class.I still can repeat it by heart! Unbelievable!
To this day I am anti-poetry-does that mean you take me off your contact list! I'll live as long as I don't have to delve into the Haiku thing though, I hate to admit this, it does sounds charming. Let's get that statement notarized in case my friends find out and want to commit me!I think I just confused myself but what do you want from me at this time of the pre-dawn hours!
2007-08-18 21:49:13 · answer #3 · answered by marlynembrindle 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
His banana tale is appropriate. He used it to describe why guy is god. The banana Ray become speaking approximately become cultivated by ability of potential of guy. Wild bananas have not have been given the properties that the cultivated (engineering by ability of breeding) bananas have. What a fool. His stable judgment is so defective, he did now no longer factor out it particularly is has a very reliable slot indoors the butt.
2016-12-12 06:24:45 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
true haiku doen't contain 'ing' words
it should not contain human elements such as 'we'.
you should also stick to the present tense.
i like your poem and i am aware that today, haiku rules are a lot more flexiable, but i thought you might like to know these facts.
read 'basho' and you'll see what i mean.
HISTORY OF HAIKU
10 haikuists and their works
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Chapter 2
Basho Matsuo (1644 ~ 1694)
Basho Matsuo is known as the first great poet in the history of haikai (and haiku).
He too, wrote poems using jokes and plays upon words in his early stages, as they were in fashion, but began to attach importance to the role of thought in haikai (especially in hokku) from around 1680.
The thought of Tchouang-tseu, philosopher in the 4th century B.C., influenced greatly Basho, and he often quoted the texts of "The Book of master Tchouang" in his hokkus.
The thinker Tchouang-tseu denied the artificiality and the utilitarianism, seeing value of intellect low. He asserted that things seemingly useless had the real value, and that it was the right way of life not to go against the natural law.
To a leg of a heron
Adding a long shank
Of a pheasant.
Basho
This poem parodied the following text in "The Book of master Tchouang": "When you see a long object, you don't have to think that it is too long if being long is the property given by the nature. It is proved by the fact that a duckling, having short legs, will cry if you try to draw them out by force, and that a crane, having long legs, will protest you with tears if you try to cut them with a knife."
By playing on purpose in this haiku an act "jointing legs of birds by force" which Tchouang denied, he showed the absurdity of this act and emphasized the powerlessness of the human being's intelligence humorously.
Basho's haikus are dramatic, and they exaggerate humor or depression, ecstasy or confusion. These dramatic expressions have a paradoxical nature. The humor and the despair which he expressed are not implements to believe in the possibility of the human being and to glorify it. If anything, the literature of Basho has a character that the more he described men's deeds, the more human existence's smallness stood out in relief, and it makes us conscious of the greatness of nature's power.
The wind from Mt. Fuji
I put it on the fan.
Here, the souvenir from Edo.
*Edo: the old name of Tokyo..
Sleep on horseback,
The far moon in a continuing dream,
Steam of roasting tea.
Spring departs.
Birds cry
Fishes' eyes are filled with tears
Summer zashiki
Make move and enter
The mountain and the garden.
*zashiki: Japanese-style room covered with tatamis and open to the garden.
What luck!
The southern valley
Make snow fragrant.
A autumn wind
More white
Than the rocks in the rocky mountain.
From all directions
Winds bring petals of cherry
Into the grebe lake.
Even a wild boar
With all other things
Blew in this storm.
The crescent lights
The misty ground.
Buckwheat flowers.
Bush clover in blossom waves
Without spilling
A drop of dew.
Note:
Originally, Basho didn't write the poem "To a leg of a heron..." as a hokku, but as one of verses in a haikai-renga.
This verse suggests the intention to laugh at himself: "What a stupid deed like drawing out a heron's leg it is to product one more series of haikai! Because it is produced so often."
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Ryu Yotsuya
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2007-08-19 03:32:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a subtle art, and everyone can do it, since it is a simple scheme with no rhyme necessary.
It is fun sometimes
To work in a confined space
Dimensions one finds
2007-08-18 22:30:15 · answer #6 · answered by Frindofo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This I must assume comes from japan. So does sushi and I like it not also. Pure weird.
2007-08-19 14:39:00 · answer #7 · answered by Dondi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋