Over at the The Haiku foundation site, there is talk of naked haiku! Haiku, that is, taken away from a haibun, standing out on its own without the prose it was meant to accompany.
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I shared one of my own as a comment on the THF November Per Diem blog post. Here it is:
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another country
the snowflakes taste
of salt
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(This haiku was originally part of the haibun “Parcels”, published this year in Frogpond, 2013, 36:2)
pending your answer the moon’s glare
(p. 8)
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Plato’s cave each day a new shadow
(p. 49)
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in Bones, journal for contemporary haiku, No. 2, 15 June 2013
yawning gap
the pull of stories
NaHaiWriMo prompt: yawn.
Also inspired by Jeff Winke’s poem (today’s THF Per Diem): “closing time”
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secret lives
by the Thames
Klee’s “Fish Magic”
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I visited Paul Klee’s show at the Tate, and this painting caught my heart! The magic of ‘Fish Magic’. Source of image: here
NaHaiWriMo prompt (for the 29th of October 2013) : secret lives
environment day –
green leaves turn
to gold
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Written in response to the following news:
Gold in trees leads to hidden deposits
By Rebecca Morelle
“Money might not grow on trees, but scientists have confirmed that gold is found in the leaves of some plants.
Researchers from Australia say that the presence of the particles in a eucalyptus tree’s foliage indicates that deposits are buried many meters below.
They believe that the discovery offers a new way to locate the sought-after metal in difficult-to-reach locations.”
I shared this poem on FB Joys of Japan 24 October 2013
Gabi Greve added it to her World Kigo Database (WKD), an educational reference site for haiku, cultural keywords and kigo, under “worldwide saijiki”,
Environment Day
***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Observance
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combine harvester
clouds of dust morph into
a poem
NaHaiWriMo prompt: idea
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Walking in Perlach, a small village near Murnau.
A new, exciting Project in the Haiku world!
The Living Haiku Anthology aims to bring “a multicultural voice of haiku to the general public,” its mission being “to provide numerous and varied haiku, free of charge, to readers from all over the world including schools of education at all levels.” The Anthology team is collecting and documenting many of the finest haiku (and living poets) today. So what an honour and pleasure to be included in it. Please visit and browse the poets and poetry in it. You will find an index of poets here
And while you are visiting, don’t forget to take a look at my haiku too. They can be found by clicking here
high tides…
in St Mark’s Square tourists
walk in water
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: vows
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Photo: Murano buildings and canal
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New haiga in the Autumn Showcase of the “The Zen Space” here
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red stains erasable signs of grief
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Take a look! The Zen Space
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traveling light /
a soul enters the river /
of heaven //
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Svetlana Marisova Memorial kukai 2013
3 pts
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patio lantern
my finger’s shadow points
the wrong way
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: finger
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milky way…
the baby licks
her lips
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Kigo entry, Shiki Kukai, September 2013
9 pts
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bird pecks at pumpkin
the scarecrow’s
third eye
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Free Format, Shiki Kukai, September 2013
6 pts
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wind in the reeds /
the creases /
on your lips //
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: wrinkles
harvest moon
so many shoppers
looking for bargains…
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Dottie Dot award (one of three), Haiku Bandit Society, September 2013
http://haikubanditsociety.blogspot.de/2013/09/september-2013-dottie-dot-awards.html
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floodplains –
how speaking about things
helps
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: flooding
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after harvest moon nach dem Erntemond
how quickly the apples turn wie rasch die Äpfel
into juice zu Saft werden
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I spent this morning making apple juice. Well, not exactly! Driving the apples to the
Gardeners’ Association in Fischach, to be made into juice, I mean!
Here is the process:
Loading the apples
Extracting the juice from the pulp
Heating and then filling the juice into special containers
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after harvest moon
taste of autumn lingers
in the juice
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nach dem Erntemond
Herbstgeschmack
im Saft
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Photos S. Pierides by kind permission of the friendly members of the Obst- und Gartenbauverein Fischach e.V.
freshly baked loaf
on the kitchen table…
full harvest moon
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: table
after all the fuss
and flutter…
the space between us
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: loss
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for no reason at all
fall apples
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: reason
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stuffed vine leaves
unwrapping granny’s
secrets
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stuffed vine leaves
stories from granny’s
kitchen cupboard
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: rice
Gabi Greve’s Joys of Japan, and WKD note the 15th of September to be Senior Citizen’s Day, kigo for India
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milky way
a herd of cows
heading home
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: collage
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endless rain
a scarecrow points
to heaven
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http://www.nahaiwrimo.com prompt: scarecrow
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seeds in the wind
how my thoughts
defeat me
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chalk butterfly
the girl adds
a crown
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Chalk
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cobalt jar –
fragrance of a thousand springs
behind glass
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Blue
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the newborn doesn’t notice…
first autumn leaves
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NaHaiWrimo prompt: birth
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scarecrows…
yet the child on his shoulders
smiles
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Honour
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dappled shade
the worry
in your eyes
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: mosaic
Over at the The Haiku Foundation blog, Troutswirl, Gene Myers asked “What do surrealists and haiku poets have in common?” A number of haiku poets contributed very interesting and varied responses. Spurned into action myself, I responded with the following comment:
“Thank you for sharing this, Gene. I have been thinking about connections between the arts and haiku poetry and so find it interesting to read people’s thoughts here.Re. your question: I understand (most) surrealists to have tried to bypass conscious mind and to make contact with the unconscious through dreams, word association, automatic writing, hypnosis, mind-altering substances… This aim to go beyond and beneath the conscious/reasoning mind and pull out a fresh, writhing, alive experience may be one of the things that surrealists and haiku poets share (though not all the means!).
Regarding two-part haiku, I like to see the juxtaposition of the two elements as displaying side by side, literally, unconsciously associated content. In a successful juxtaposition, a sense of strangeness, an uncanny feeling is being set up. Isn’t this central to the attraction for both reader and writer: looking at the seemingly disparate elements/parts of the poem, experiencing the tensions generated and their resolution in a moment of recognition in which the unseen / unconscious connections emerge?
In this sense, surrealists (at least those of the more constructive strand) and haiku poets may be said to use juxtaposition of the seemingly disparate as a means to reach underneath and beyond the well-trodden tracks of our conscious landscape; to (to use your words) ‘jar’ and encourage filling in the gaps/holes between the elements through reconnecting with deeper/hidden levels of the mind. Of course, this is only one of several commonalities; there’s also choice of words, images, form of presentation, and so on.
Happily, we have this month’s Per Diem, Kirsten Cliff’s collection “Dream Speak,” to help us explore this matter further.”
Noticed the last sentence? Why not keep me company, visit the THF Per Diem site, and pull out of the Per Diem box the daily poem; fresh, and only for a day, the daily poem can be found by clicking here.
