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Dreamcatcher__ 87M
7019 posts
9/24/2014 1:21 pm

To call the haiku tradition of Matsuo Basho "grade school" is unnecessary. Your work should be able to stand on its own, which, thankfully, most of your examples do. Still, having to meet the test of metre sharpens the mind, expands the imagination and exhilarates the soul.


AC_Wright 58F
323 posts
9/27/2014 12:49 pm

Don't let anyone steer you wrong.

A haiku is a formal poem that fits the grade school definition and is bounded by it in the same way that the ladybug that lights on your skin as a child adding red white and black to you, is nothing more than an insect of the order choleoptera or that alcoholism is a tendency to drink too much, full stop.

A haiku is a Zen expression in that its form forces you to seek the great inside the small—the unbounded within its constraint—in the same way that the tea ceremony is more than just a way of laying your hands on some luke-warm tea-froth.

Considering the structure of our language (and our culture) I wonder if it is even possible for us to write Haiku any more than it is possible to translate verse from one language to another maintaining all the original rhymes and rhythms.

Maybe it should suffice to borrow a page from H.H. The Dailai Lama's book when he said that instead of learning to meditate, perhaps westerners should use what they already have and simply pray.

I see nothing wrong with your writing "Ku"



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