Haiku
(or hokku, meaning "starting verse")
A Japanese poetic form, three lines containing seventeen syllables,
usually 5-7-5. Haiku grew out of two earlier Japanese forms, the
Tanka (or waka), a five line stanza arranged 5-7-5-7-7, and the renga
("linked verse"), a collaborative form in which two or more poets
would take turns, the first using the three lines of a tanka, the second
using the last two lines, and then continuing for some time. That
opening was called a haiku, or "starting verse."
Here are a few of mine~~~~
peaceful evening sounds:
cats, cars and crickets humming
under soundless moon
swirling the spectrum
hummingbirds feed on nectar -
one love-lies-bleeding
the sounding of spring
trumpet vine and hollyhock -
grimalkin geishas
the dragonfly glides
across stillness of ponds
as the sunlight winks
frost settles on leaves
with kaleidoscope hues
lacking pure color
black tiger dances
tall grass billows around him
in perfect rhythm
under hazy sky
a cat nabs a slow gopher
defining her speed
sway of the dusk dance
waltzing branches silhouette
cobalt fading skies
tender fingers trace
aging lines on the face of
wrinkled wood: oak smiles
the first born sun rays
stretching out with warm embrace -
an infant sky cries
knife-edged dawn slices
life awakes near sallow pond
with a sharp stirring
liquid sky runs smooth
across the table of clouds -
spring in a bucket
copyright 1999
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