General Poetry posted July 7, 2020 |
5/7/5 Summer Contemporary Haiku
Ebony Ashtray
by Gypsy Blue Rose
two million acres
of rapid rainforest fire — ebony ashtray |
--Ebony Meaning: Dark Black-wooded Tree.
--2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires. Total fires more than 40,000 in January to October 2019 Burned area of 2,240,000 acres
--Cause: slash and burn to deforest land, climate change, and global warming. more information
--In the USA is 4.7 millions acres in 2019
--Wildfires are lightning-caused fires, human-caused fires, and escaped prescribed fire projects.
--source: https://crsreports.congress.gov
ENGLISH HAIKU
haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature intuitively linked to the human condition.
The essence of haiku is 'cutting' (kiru) represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas separated by a kireji -dash or ellipsis- (~, ...)
kigo-usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such terms.
Kigo (season) seasons dictionary
English haiku doesn't have to be 5/7/5, just 17 syllables OR LESS and as brief as possible. Japanese syllables are shorter than English syllables. source of rules
for example, one of the greatest haiku in history, written by haiku master, Matsuo Basho....
old pond
frogs jumped in
sound of water .................... In English, it's 2/3/4
Same haiku in Japanese....
furu ike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no to ..................... In Japanese it's 5/7/5
source--haiku society of America
William J. Higginson Haiku society of America
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Pays
one point
and 2 member cents. --2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires. Total fires more than 40,000 in January to October 2019 Burned area of 2,240,000 acres
--Cause: slash and burn to deforest land, climate change, and global warming. more information
--In the USA is 4.7 millions acres in 2019
--Wildfires are lightning-caused fires, human-caused fires, and escaped prescribed fire projects.
--source: https://crsreports.congress.gov
ENGLISH HAIKU
haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature intuitively linked to the human condition.
The essence of haiku is 'cutting' (kiru) represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas separated by a kireji -dash or ellipsis- (~, ...)
kigo-usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such terms.
Kigo (season) seasons dictionary
English haiku doesn't have to be 5/7/5, just 17 syllables OR LESS and as brief as possible. Japanese syllables are shorter than English syllables. source of rules
for example, one of the greatest haiku in history, written by haiku master, Matsuo Basho....
old pond
frogs jumped in
sound of water .................... In English, it's 2/3/4
Same haiku in Japanese....
furu ike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no to ..................... In Japanese it's 5/7/5
source--haiku society of America
William J. Higginson Haiku society of America
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