5/6/5 haiku (not a senryu) I can send you additional information upon request.
kigo (the season is summer)

I still remember my first love. The moment that I knew he was the one. It was summer on the northern Spain coast. We were on vacation. We swam from the beach to a small reef. I wanted to impress him so I challenged him to hike the reef. We did and at times his skin touched mine and it felt like a small electric shock. We were boyfriend and girlfriend until I moved to California and never saw him again.


author notes

A haiku is a type of Japanese poetry that originated in the 7th century. In Japan, haiku has seventeen syllables in a 5/7/5 pattern. In English is seventeen syllables or LESS. The reason is that Japanese and English syllables are different. Haiku are usually about nature, but as Basho once said, "everything is nature, about how men or women relate to nature". It's okay to add art to your haiku as long as it doesn't spell out the meaning of your haiku. The main point of haiku is to place a vivid picture with words in the reader's mind. The first two lines should be grammatically connected, a fluid thought. The third line is called satori. It means the aha! a moment in time...something that makes you think.

Thank you for reading,

Gypsy


***Dedicated to Pedro, my first love***

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