Haiku: Inside the Moment

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Fallen

bittersweet silence
strewn among the fallen leaves
cicada bodies

Posted by kbweber at 6:31 PM

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kbweber: Bloomington, Illinois, United States; Haiku teach us to fully live inside the present moment. They separate us from the chaos of every day life and focus our minds on our surroundings, our feelings, and our experiences.

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Turtle Light Press E-Anthology
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Modern Haiku: Volume 37.1
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Haiku (as defined by the Haiku Society of America)

Definition: A haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature or the season intuitively linked to the human condition.

Notes: Most haiku in English consist of three unrhymed lines of seventeen or fewer syllables, with the middle line longest, though today's poets use a variety of line lengths and arrangements. In Japanese a typical haiku has seventeen "sounds" (on) arranged five, seven, and five. (Some translators of Japanese poetry have noted that about twelve syllables in English approximates the duration of seventeen Japanese on.) Traditional Japanese haiku include a "season word" (kigo), a word or phrase that helps identify the season of the experience recorded in the poem, and a "cutting word" (kireji), a sort of spoken punctuation that marks a pause or gives emphasis to one part of the poem. In English, season words are sometimes omitted, but the original focus on experience captured in clear images continues. The most common technique is juxtaposing two images or ideas (Japanese rensô). Punctuation, space, a line-break, or a grammatical break may substitute for a cutting word. Most haiku have no titles, and metaphors and similes are commonly avoided. (Haiku do sometimes have brief prefatory notes, usually specifying the setting or similar facts; metaphors and similes in the simple sense of these terms do sometimes occur, but not frequently. A discussion of what might be called "deep metaphor" or symbolism in haiku is beyond the range of a definition.

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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Fallen

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