Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Not-a-Haiku about Haiku - poem

Lawrence Hall
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poeticdrivel.blogspot.com


Not-a-Haiku about Haiku

Only a Japanese master can shape happy words
To fall upon the earth like soft spring rain
Choreographing merry rivulets
Through which Ame-no-Usume dances the dawn

Only a Japanese master can take a leaf
As a page of the Emperor’s great book
And taste it, hear it, touch it, sing of it
And in it see the completion of the world

Only a Japanese master can wield
Kireji, On, and Kigo as a sword



(In this context “master” is gender-neutral)

1 comment:

Verlie Burroughs said...

The Haiku form has been badly abused and mis-used I agree. My own attempts have been rather pathetic, still I won't stop trying. Great insight here, thank you.