HAIKU: A MountainWord explainer
Maureen Crockett thought it’d be good if I’d explain a little bit about haiku for the uninitiated. I put together this slideshow. I hope it inspires you to write some haiku that you would share with us.
Douglas Imbrogno, editor of thegazz.com, sent an animation he made of a short Issa poem: the animation comes from Hundred Mountain, a former web magazine on Buddhism he used to edit.
He also passed on a relevant link, a poem about the end of Basho’s life, published some years back in the magazine– (click it) Basho’s end-of-life poem.
August 12th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
A Gazz blog-inspired haiku:
Touching to taste it,
Smelling to visualize.
A Blog in My Soup?
August 14th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Cat Haikus:
Feeling
True compassion is gentle
A soft lullaby ~
The purr of a beloved cat
Energy
Joyous warm exuberance
Cats chasing sunbeams
Across the slick wooden floor
Life
The most content sound e’er heard
The mother cat’s purr
As she suckles her kittens
Happiness
No duo more action packed
Nor joyous to watch
Than kittens and butterflies!
“Ginny” 1
Pied beauty truly abounds
In brown, gold, and white
Calico cat in the sun
“Ginny” 2
My son’s cat died yesterday
Her monument etched
Into paw prints on his heart
“Mystery”
Cold stray cat crept in my yard
Icy winter day
Now he warms my hearth and lap
September 14th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
my cat is so nice
she always likes to eat mice
she also eats birds
September 14th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
my cat says meow
she can talk in her own way
she can say meow