I’ve joined the haiku group on Twitter and it has revived a former passion for the form.
Haiku is a Japanese poetry form that traditionally is written in three lines of 5 / 7 / 5 syllables, though not all people adhere to that rule. Twitter, with it’s 140 character limit is the ideal delivery medium for this art form. Below are my haikus from the last week. I’d love to see you on Twitter where you can add your 17 syllables to the flow. (My latest tweets–as NatureSpirits–are in my sidebar.)
Deep in the dark woods,
sunshine suddenly appears:
big leaf maples gleam.Storm slams, surprises—
tall firs swoon into the gale,
branches embrace crows.Wild winds whip waves white.
Giddy gulls glide gleefully.
We watch, wait, worry.Pumpkins plump and glow;
wisteria wilts, withers;
ochre grass regreens.Crow chases eagle,
but eagle flies much higher
and becomes the sky.Nine crows congregate
in an old oak, each focused
on a young acorn.Dusk: two heron stalk
the mauve low tide for dinner;
only the sea moves.Lone eagle zips by,
clutching sturdy bare branches—
fall windstorm repair.Fog falls, flows downward
cascading into the lake—
slo-mo waterfall.
I really do feel even brief meditative moments can punctuate our days with respites from the chaos. How do you make pauses in your days?
Get your Zen on; see earlier group of haikus here.
November 27th, 2009 at 4:41 am
Beautiful haikus…:-)