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Open Poetry #46

Why Haiku?

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2010-03-21 04:50 PM

Why a form of art
Which departs from accepted
Parameters set?

To touch and stir hearts
To intrigue and challenge head?
And leave unfulfilled?

Vocabulary-
To wrest it into meaning-
Things not intended.

Rhythm and meter-
The very substance of music
Flippantly cast off.

While challenging, true-
Perhaps it serves to feed egos
Who can't attain rhyme.

A rebel, myself?
Perhaps, yet perhaps a voice
In defense of art.

wandering glider
Senior Member

since 2001-04-04

Posts 501
aloft

1 posted 2010-03-22 12:13 PM

It is not haiku
just because one counts the words
and finds seventeen.

Haiku needs the spirit
found in an observation.
The sense of "aha"!

I don't recall seeing this
from you elsewhere.

I find that with great practice,
haiku is a very satisfying form.
(as must be the form you do so well)

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2010-03-22 02:39 AM

I think this fascinating in the way it is done, John, Whether one enjoys haiku or not.
Ida

Earl Brinkman
Senior Member

since 2010-03-03

Posts 1183
Osaka, Japan

3 posted 2010-03-22 08:34 AM

I think you would think differently if you were to read haiku in Japanese, which is such a beautiful language.

Nakinurete
Itasa Koraete
Makura Nure

Wet pillows do dry in the sun.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2010-03-22 01:42 PM

Andrew Scott
Member Elite

since 1999-06-24

Posts 2558
Redlands,CA,USA

5 posted 2010-04-03 10:29 PM

Hats off to you on this one.

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