What is Haiku
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Haiku Poetry Japanese Lyric Verse
I love Haiku. I have created this lens to introduce the novice to Haiku and to share info with those who want to know more about Haiku.
What is Haiku? Haiku is lyric poetry, a Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Haiku traditionally invokes an aspect of nature or the seasons.
If you are not familiar with Haiku, I hope to introduce you to it's beauty and sometimes it's humor. I have included on this page examples of Haiku, some history of Haiku and info about famouse Haiku poets. I hope you enjoy reading about Haiku and that you will post your own Haiku!
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Chocolate
My thoughts come in waves
quietly without ceasing
tea and chocolate
by patinkc
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Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki,
A hawk circles,
silently searching
for motion.
Ken Wagner, Haiku Habits
Haiku Poems
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Tom Clausen Home
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Still in the Stream
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Basho's Haiku
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What Is Haiku
American Heritage® Dictionary: Description of haiku
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/haiku
- Defining the haiku form
- Defining the haiku formMy own quick definition might be:What is the proper form for haiku in English? Well, a simple definition might be a poem that captures a ‘moment in time’, usually involving nature, and as perceived or experienced by the poet. It is recorded in less than seventeen syllables, us
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HOW-TO HAIKU Haiku Techniques - Jane Reichhold Another Definition of Haiku - Jane Reichhold
Fragment and Phrase Theory -Jane
Reichhold Haiku Rules That Have Come and Gone - Jane
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Reichhold Forms in English Haiku - Keiko Imaoka
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- Haiku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Haiku From Wikipedia, For other uses, see Haiku (disambiguation).
Haiku (%u4FF3%u53E5, ?) is a mode of Japanese poetry, the late 19th century revision by Masaoka Shiki of the ol
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Joanna23
Feb 5, 2012 @ 1:16 am | delete
- its nice to see great haiku poems here. I love this kind of poetry.
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John_Michael Dec 23, 2011 @ 10:30 pm | delete
- umm my head hurts even trying to figure this out
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mihgasper
Dec 18, 2011 @ 6:19 am | delete
- Can't do that, I am just an audience here.
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SRitchieable
Nov 28, 2011 @ 8:37 pm | delete
- The parching sun hangs
In the sky which is longing
For the twilight breeze.
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christopherlee Jul 6, 2011 @ 1:40 am | delete
- A good Len to visit, thanks
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Haiku From Twitter
The thief left it behind
the moon
at the window
~Ryokan
Ryokan Haiku Poet
Soto Zen Buddhist monk
Ryokan was a Soto Zen Buddhist monk who lived in Niigata Japan. He soon left the monastery, where practice was frequently quite lax, and lived as a hermit until he was very old and had to move into the house of one of his supporters.Ryokan was famous for his poetry and calligraphy. His poetry is often very simple and inspired by nature. He was a lover of children, and sometimes forgot to go on his alms round to get food because he was playing with the children of the nearby village. Ryokan refused to accept any position as a priest or even as a "poet", which shows his great humility. In the tradition of Zen his quotes and poems show he had a good sense of humour and didn't take himself too seriously. However his poetry also gives illumining insights into the practise of Zen.
Ryokan lived a very simple, pure life, and stories about his kindness and generosity abound. On his deathbed, Ryokan offered the following death poem to the nun nursing him:
"showing their backs
then their fronts
falling maple leafs"
~~Wikipdeia
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Poetry of Basho
Basho Haiku
"Bush clover in blossom waves
Without spilling
A drop of dew."
Basho Haiku Poet
Most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan
Matsuo Basho was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Basho was renowned for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, he is recognized as a master of brief and clear haiku. Yosa Buson Haiku Poet
Japanese poet and painter
Short summer night.A dewdrop
On the back of a hairy caterpillar.
~Yosa Buson
Yosa Buson was a Japanese poet and painter from the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Basho and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period.
Poetry of Yosa Buson
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Baby Haiku by Lily Wang
Centering on babies and a mother's love, Lily Wang more...1 point
Haiku & You
Haiku Blog Posts About Haiku
- Poets gather to celebrate the 'love' of haiku
- By The Post-Standard Jim Commentucci / The Post-StandardA book of love haiku by Japanese poet Masajo Suzuki provides inspiration for a workshop on writing haiku as an expression of love Saturday at the Red House Cafe in Syracuse.
- DNA haiku contest winner
- About Miss Conduct Robin Abrahams writes the weekly "Miss Conduct" column for The Boston Globe Magazine. Robin Abrahams writes the weekly "Miss Conduct" column for The Boston Globe Magazine. Robin, who has a PhD in psychology from Boston University, ...
- Herald haiku
- By Jack Millikin This will be a first for me. Just something I've been kicking around for a while but never got around to doing it. So here it is, my first silly little edition of haikus inspired by last weekend's girls and boys basketball action.
- Game Recap In Haiku: Virginia Cavaliers Clown Wake Forest Demon Deacons, 68-44
- by SamuraiFoochs on Feb 8, 2012 9:53 PM EST in Wake Forest Basketball Pretty much all that needs to said other than the following: I don't know what to do. Bzdelik, Wellman, just gameplans, personnel, I honestly have no idea, but something has to ...
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winter solstice
with it a reckoning
in falling snow
~William Sorlien
poemshape.wordpress.com
Falling Snow
photo by Christine Johnstone [CC-BY-SA-2.0
(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
solstice night
ice fishing alone
over deep water
~William Sorlien
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Countdown to National Haiku Poetry Day
Limbs without their leaves
Reach for the warmth of the sun
Frosty morning
~~Patinkc
Winter Haiku
Haiku Share
Lying in my bed
Thoughts of snowflakes in my head
Winter is coming
~~Fernando Manaloto
little sparrow
ruffling the snow
winter bath
~~cyberbonn
wind sweeps snow from rows
and rows of plain white crosses
quiet field of grief
~~karmabird
Summer Solstice
summer solstice
the measuring tape reels back
into its case
~~Carolyn Hall
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Lying in my bed
Lying in my bed
Thoughts of snowflakes in my head
Winter is coming
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John_Michael Dec 23, 2011 @ 10:32 pm | delete
- I still cannot explain what this is... I'll come back again
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mihgasper
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- Haiku is beautiful miniature piece of cosmic truth. One day I would like to write on on my own.
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oktalBlizzard
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- I always like learning new things, and your lens just tough me what Haiku is.
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SaikoNinja
Aug 23, 2011 @ 1:25 am | delete
- I teach a few students in my class (around age 60) who belong to the Fuji Haiku Society. Every year they climb part way up Mt.Fuji to where the glacier is, grab some glacier ice for their whiskey, as write Haiku. just Brilliant.
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- Deep,
Intense,
Blessed :)
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Spring
Spring - through
morning mist
what mountains there?
~Basho
i2Haiku
On this Mother's Day
I wish you all of the joy
that your children bring
Summer
Dew evaporates
And all our world is dew.. .so dear,
So fresh, so fleeting
~~Issa
Summer grasses
All that remains
of warriors dreams
~~Basho
Summer Solstice
summer solstice
the measuring tape reels back
into its case
~~Carolyn Hall
Autumn Haiku
By lonely roads
this lonely poet marches
into autumn dusk.
Basho (Beilenson)
November
"Splitting dry kindling
on a damp November day--
wind-chimes tinkling."
- Michael P. Garofalo, Cuttings
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