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.)
A cloudy day dawns:
a vase full of dahlias
floods my room with sun.Warm autumn morning,
geese linger on the lagoon;
they’ll be leaving soon.Geese pick cornfield clean
plumping up for their journey;
now they’re light as wind.Big leaf maple hands
flutter lazily downward…
golden palms touch me.Harvest moon rises
fat, orange and pumpkin-like—
I glow in the dark.Geese follow moonlight,
winging south along the bay…
and into my dreams.Clear October dawn:
islands etched across the Strait,
snow in the distance.Morning in balance:
rising sun and setting moon
dance across treetops.
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.
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