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Re: Haiku
« Reply #30 on: October 31, 2010, 04:17:28 AM »
Thanks Vicki, I generally have a thing for haikus and frogs, I dont know why, LOL
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #31 on: October 31, 2010, 09:05:27 AM »
Skylark
sings all day,
and day not long enough.


~Matsuo Basho
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #32 on: October 31, 2010, 10:56:40 PM »
Quote from: Nichi on October 31, 2010, 09:05:27 AM
Skylark
sings all day,
and day not long enough.


~Matsuo Basho

I am no expert at haiku, but my understanding is that the last line should change the whole meaning of the preceding lines.
The first two lines head off in an apparent direction, but the last line changes everything - it doesn't just follow on, it throws an unexpected light on what precedes it - takes you by surprise.

This poem seems a good example of that principle.
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #33 on: December 19, 2010, 08:29:54 AM »
From self-infatuation to selflessness …

One is grossly visible in the world – to the world and to oneself – when one suffers from self-infatuation, self-engrossment, self-importance. Haiku is a streaming into the light in which self-infatuation cannot exist. The pure and purifying action of the haiku moment causes us to dissolve into another dimension. And who or what are we then? Creatures of light. Nothing more. Nothing less. And though we may return to the chiaroscuro of life, we are changed. We have, briefly, known our brilliant nature. The self has been sloughed and only Self remains.

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #34 on: December 19, 2010, 08:39:15 AM »
their hungry cry
   carried away by clouds
      to where there are no gulls
            

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #35 on: December 19, 2010, 08:51:14 AM »
concealing his tail
            among heads of barley
               old fox
                  
~Tesshi



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Re: Haiku
« Reply #36 on: March 13, 2011, 05:09:57 AM »
Reflected
in the dragonfly's eye --
mountains.

~Issa
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #37 on: July 11, 2012, 06:52:46 AM »
a star
a tree
and the longing in between


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Re: Haiku
« Reply #38 on: December 22, 2012, 07:32:09 AM »
awakened
          as ice bursts
                    the water jar

                                  Matsuo Basho
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #39 on: January 21, 2013, 06:33:21 AM »
The world?  Moonlit
       Drops shaken
       From the crane's bill.
   
                 -    Dogen
                         Zen Poems of China and Japan
                         Translated by Lucien Stryk
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #40 on: January 21, 2013, 07:09:28 AM »
Nothing remains
  Of the house that I was born in--
Fireflies.


Santoka, 1882-1940
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #41 on: January 29, 2013, 10:03:52 PM »
Quote from: Nichi on January 21, 2013, 06:33:21 AM
The world?  Moonlit
       Drops shaken
       From the crane's bill.
   
                 -    Dogen
                         Zen Poems of China and Japan
                         Translated by Lucien Stryk

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #42 on: April 05, 2013, 06:58:13 AM »
How admirable!
to see lightning and not think
life is fleeting.

- Matsuo Basho
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Re: Haiku
« Reply #43 on: May 23, 2013, 04:09:04 AM »
a raven comes out of the woods
               to look at the world
                    and returns


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Re: Haiku
« Reply #44 on: May 23, 2013, 04:14:47 AM »
Airing out kimonos
as well as her heart
is never enough.


Fukuda Chiyo-ni
18th Century Japan
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