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I write haiku on occasions, I don’t force myself to it, I just like to catch a moment sometimes, catch it in that best way.
For me haiku poems are better than photos, photos lack the soul, anyone can take a photo, not everyone can write Haiku.
I usually just write haiku on a piece of paper and stick it into my pocket, because of that some of them get lost, but some reach the computer on the changed form and have a place on my hard drive. No pressure.
Sunlust
A rainy day indeed,
Can you predict the
Weather in England?
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The seagulls sang
They flew in the sky;
Why’s my windscreen white?
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The sound of the fan
The buzz of the harddrive -
My computer is still alive!
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Ice outside and inside,
Red on my mothers top -
Father, stop hitting her.
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By the way, don’t hesitate to ask questions about haiku, either by adding a comment here or contacting me through a form on my website : Sunlust.net
Haiku poems are a snapshot of reality, shown from your perspective.
Thanks to their simple structure, short form and to them being young, they’re a great fun to write and to read.
In this last step, I underlined the fact that haiku poems are there to enjoy them, to love writing them and reading them and contemplating reality with them in mind.
At the ending, just so stick to the convention, two examples of funny and joyful haiku poems:
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
Green frog,
Is your body also
freshly painted?
Anonymous
Without flowing wine
How to enjoy lovely
Cherry blossoms?
To divide a Haiku poem in two parts, we use a “cutting word”.
This is to separate two sections of the poem in two parts, each of which enriches the other.
Cutting can be done with example a colon, long dash or ellipsis.
Let’s have a look at few examples, I colored the cutting in red:
Basho, Matsuo
In all the rains of May
there is one thing not hidden -
the bridge at Seta Bay.
Hashin
No sky
no earth - but still
snowflakes fall
Once again, remember that not all haiku poems have to contain cutting, few more examples:
Kato, Shuson
I kill an ant
and realize my three children
have been watching.
Natsume, Soseki
On New Year’s Day
I long to meet my parents
as they were before my birth.
Haiku poems for me are something sophisticated and light.
Another thing I love about them is that you can write pretty much about anything you like, in a simple fashion.
How to describe our boring, simple bits of our lifes in a way that will appeal to a potential reader? Let’s ask Haiku masters once again, gaze upon these few poems while thinking about the simple things from life that you can find in them.
Basho, Matsuo
No blossoms and no moon,
and he is drinking sake
all alone!
Temple bells die out.
The fragrant blossoms remain.
A perfect evening!
Murakami, Kijo
The moment two bubbles
are united, they both vanish.
A lotus blooms.
Something simple becomes something meaningful and timeless, significant, oh the power of Haiku Poems!
