full moon

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満月や　それは綺麗が　蛍なし。。。



full moon night -
how very beautiful but
no fireflies



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up there

summer heat - maybe it is cooler up there ?

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lizard tokage

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cutting trees -
a lizard watches
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lizard 蜥蜴 (とかげ) tokage

quote
Lizards are a large and widespread group of squamate reptiles, with nearly 5,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica as well as most oceanic island chains. The group, traditionally recognized as the suborder Lacertilia, is defined as all extant members of the Lepidosauria (reptiles with overlapping scales) which are neither sphenodonts (i.e., Tuatara) nor snakes. While the snakes are recognized as falling phylogenetically within the anguimorph lizards from which they evolved, the sphenodonts are the sister group to the squamates, the larger monophyletic group which includes both the lizards and the snakes.
Most lizard species are harmless to humans. Only the very largest lizard species pose threat of death; the Komodo dragon, for example, has been known to stalk, attack, and kill humans.

Gekkota
Active hunters, the Gekkota includes three families comprising the distinctive cosmopolitan geckos and the legless flap-footed lizards of Australia and New Zealand. Like snakes, the geckos and the flap-footed lizards lack eyelids. Unlike snakes, they use their tongues to clean their often highly developed eyes. While gecko feet have unique surfaces which allow them to cling to glass and run on ceilings, the flapfoot has lost its limbs. The three families of this suborder are:
Family Eublepharidae – Eublepharid Geckos
Family Gekkonidae – Geckos
Family Pygopodidae – Flap-footed Lizards
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lizzard
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kigo for spring

tokage ana o izu 蜥蜴穴を出づ (とかげあなをいづ )
lizzard coming out of his hole
togake ana o deru 蜥蜴穴を出る（とかげあなをでる）
tokage izu 蜥蜴出づ（とかげいづ） lizard coming out
kigo for mid-spring



AUSTRALIA
dragon lizard
kigo for spring

Goanna / Monitor Lizard
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all summer

tokage 蜥蜴 (とかげ) lizard
aotokage 青蜥蜴（あおとかげ）
ruritokage 瑠璃蜥蜴（るりとかげ）
shimatokage 縞蜥蜴（しまとかげ）


kurotokage 黒蜥蜴 black tokage
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yamori 守宮 (やもり) Japanese gecko
... 屋守（やもり, ヤモリ）
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imori 井守 (いもり) newt, eft, kind of salamander
akahara 赤腹（あかはら）
ibo imori イボイモリ (Tylototriton andersoni)
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sanshoouo, sanshoo uo
山椒魚 さんしょううお salamander
..... hanzaki はんざき
..... hashigami uo 椒魚（はしがみうお）
aburame 油魚（あぶらめ）
hatakedojoo はたけどじょう
Hakone sanshoo uo箱根山椒魚（はこねさんしょううお）
Fuji sanshoo uo 富士山椒魚（ふじさんしょううお）


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found on the way

imori no kuroyaki いもりのくろやき(井守の黒焼（き）)
love potion
A mail and female newt are smoldered black and then made into a powder, which is put secretly into the glass of ricewine or other drink of your darling-to-be.

WASHOKU :
Love potion (horegusuri 惚薬) Liebestrunk


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Kenya

Chameleon
topic for haiku

bright morning -
a colored chameleon
on a flower vase

Elung'ata Barrack, Kenya


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(kamereon in Japanses カメレオン, a kind of tokage)



YEMEN
Veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus)



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HAIKU


old tree--
into its stillness
a grass lizard

roh mih, Manila, Philippines


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White Flower

Candle Night キャンドルナイト candle night - is the spider looking for enlightenment ? . . . . . candle night - the beetles are having some fun in the dark

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candle night -
is the spider looking for
enlightenment ?


Dear Gabi,
I like this very much, and have a question.
We get drilled into us so much not to use personification and I know you're very experienced in haiku. When do you decide to make an exception (you personally)?


Dear Friend,
I try to avoid personifications and anthropomorphism as much as I can, since I believe haiku should state the objective observance, not the subjective judgement about it. I only use it when the situation really calls for it.


Here is the story to the above haiku.

It is candlenight in Japan.
A few good friends have gathered around the old pond, with the odd frog jumping in once in a while too for good measure.
In the darkness, we enjoy the conversation, then the silence, then talk again.

Plop, another frog. Silence deepens.

A firefly zips by and I tell my friends about this haiku, written a few days ago in some haiku forum after a discussion on the subject

temporary enlightenment -
just a bunch of
fireflies

Everybody chuckles ... yea, yea, the follies of us human beings ...
And silence again in the darkness.

Staring toward the white calla lily, a small spider makes its way toward the innermost flower parts. Slowly, stopping, sensing what ?

Everyone gets focussed on the spider and then another little beetle on the white flower next to it. Candlelight makes this scene especially unworldly. Like under a giant spotlight, all we see now is the spider.

And then someone asks:

Is the spider looking for
enlightenment ?

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So my particular haiku is not really a personification, but a report about a situation during that candlenight.



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Princess Haiku

princess haiku - a rose in my garden full of weeds

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sunflowers

let me laugh with you - sunflowers

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atomic fallout

atomic fallout fall out out

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Before dawn of March 1st in 1954, the U.S. hydrogen bomb "Bravo" blew up at the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The power was 1,000 times more than the A-bomb on Hiroshima.
The Daigo Fukuryumaru (the Fifth Lucky Dragon), a tuna fishing boat, was operating near the Rongelap Atoll, which was thought to be outside the warning area and was about 160km away from Bikini Atoll.
A few hours later, radioactive pieces of coral reef called "Ash of Death" poured down on 23 crew members of the boat.

Daigo Fukuryumaru (Fifth Lucky Dragon)
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some comments

A sensitive, beautiful poem Gabi. I clicked into the link and yes, a sad story indeed!

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you have a sensitive, gentle, beautiful heart, gabi-san.
Bless you.

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Gabi san, I was deeply moved by your poem and act.
Thank you.

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Thank you for posting this Gabi. A sad story indeed.

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very sad story Gabi, we are our own worst enemy.

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Dear GABI,
With what a powerful voice you've stated your mind.
I read the report with great sadness. . . and it only got worse by the end of the write-up.
It is beyond reason why we do this to ourselves.

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i never heard about this tragedy before
thank you, Gabi! (for your good poem!, for the link)
a friend from Germany

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A fitting poem, Gabi. Thanks, Gabi.


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busy bee

busy bee ... collecting HAIKU and sunshine

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sleepless night

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rainy season ...
I peer through
the raindrops






Movement of the rain clouds.
My home is just in the middle of the photo
where I made the red dot.



and a bit later, toward the end of this fit of rain



rainy season -
the drama of clouds
between mountain peaks


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Got quite a pounding on the old tin roof, and still going on ...
. weather.yahoo.co.jp/weather/


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You can tell whether one is clever
by his or her answers.
You can tell whether one is wise
by his or her questions.

Naguib Mahfouz


rainy season ...
shall I write a wet haiku
or a dry one ?


rainy season ...
shall I write a clever haiku
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and for good measure, the daily ISSA on the subject


big winter rain
or little winter rain...
sleeping is hard

ooshigure ko shigure neru mo muzukashi ya
大時雨小しぐれ寝るもむづかしや

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I enjoyed the humor in these, Gabi...
they compliment each other nicely!

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Gabi, the playful and gentle spirit here gives me a lift.

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Yes, you've captured the 'lightness' of the haiku spirit so well!!!

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hi GABI - i enjoyed the wry humour in these two. i enjoy light-hearted haiku so yours brought much pleasure to me. thanks.



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five o'clock -
a white half moon
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Madame Spider

madame spider ... mending her torn net again and again I observe her every morning after each rainy night ...

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蜘蛛婦人　Kumo Fujin


Madame Spinne ...
sie flickt ihr zerrissenes Netz
wieder und wieder


oder


Madame Spinne -
sie flickt ihr Netz
wieder und wieder

くも母さん 何度も何度も巣を直す

kumo ka-san
nando mo nando mo
su o naosu

Tr. Nakamura Sakuo





.. Spiders in my Paradise











more
Spiders in my Paradise 。。極楽の蜘蛛


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tsuyu sanaka -
nothing matters
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tsuyu sanaka ... in the middle of the rainy season of Japan


KIGO : rainy season


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Haiku in 2005


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trekking season -
so many stones
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fireflies again

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watching fireflies ...
the first, the second and then
ALL OF THEM !



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Fireflies (hotaru) (Japan)


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birdsong

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summer morning -
the birdsong has no end
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Daruma Pond Frog

古池や　だるま飛び込む　水の音 furuike ya Daruma tobikomu mizu no oto this old pond - the sound of water as my Daruma jumps in

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Rana porosa brevipoda


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piled up firewood -
sooo many beetles fighting
to survive



summer evening -
the rustling sound of
beetles fighting



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enlightenment

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staring into darkness -
the enlightenment of
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"A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment
in which we see into the life of things."

R.H. Blyth

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temporary enlightenment -
just a bunch of
fireflies


A bit more on Zen and such ...
.. zen-and-haiku/gabi



candle night -
is the spider looking for
enlightenment ?

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anthropo morphs

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visitors gone -
I am the great dishwasher,
laughs the rain




I usually leave the dirty dishes outside in a great barrel, and last night, there was a good heavenly help !



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rainy season ...
the first drop
on my Buddha's face


He sits outside in my garden and when it rains, he looks like getting the measels ...


Here he is still in the sunshine




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Love it, Gabi!

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Hey! Whatever works, Gabi . . . especially when it SAVES work.

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What a good chuckle! Thanks for sharing this.

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"...a good heavenly help ! ..."
yeah, that`s nice!

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"senryu [is] more mystical and animistic and personificatory . . . that haiku."
--R. H. Blyth, Japanese Life and Character in Senryu , p. 287
Looks like senryu to me, Gabi. And a good one, too.

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Good one, Gabi.
Imagine...rain and a barrel..I'm feeling guilty for my dishwasher.


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Buddha and Rain

rainy season the first drop on the Buddha's head

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rose buds

raindrops on the rose buds - a letter from home

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Very nice, Gabi. Your third line makes me think that the letter's arrival is as nurturing as the raindrops on the rose. I really like this.

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Roses are for remembrance and love _ your 3rd line is most appropriate!
Lovely poem!

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well done, enjoyed the moment.

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i enjoyed to read your haiku, Gabi! very nice!
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Nice one, Gabi . . . and always lovely to get a letter from home.

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What I like about it is the way it lets go of the first image.
We are often so focused on playing off of that first image, resonating with it, or paralleling in some way -- prescribing, if you will, some sort of unity. This haiku is totally unforced, unconstructed I guess you could say, but nevertheless, a unified whole.
I learned from this one. Thank you for posting it.

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Guard well your spare moments.
They are like uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value will never be known.
Improve them and they will become
the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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your spare moments
your treasure moments
your haiku moments

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Gabi,

I am aware that you practice shasei, because you linked to my short analysis of Joan Payne Kincaid's shasei in your blog http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/07/shasei-sketch-from-nature.html

I've been meaning to thank you for that.

Anyway, even in shasei, take Joan's as an example, there is often an authorial "construction." I don't really have appropriate language to express this. I mean some sort of intervention or interpretation. The haijin has selected the elements with an eye towards, I don't know, cleverness maybe, or beauty sometimes -- towards INTENTIONAL resonance in either case

I often feel that I can't "get" a haiku on a given day; that I can not espy some interesting elements to connect, and so, have nothing to write.

Your haiku makes no attempt tat intentional resonance.. It "let's go" (again, suffering from lack of useful phrasing) of the first image entirely, instead of try to hinge upon it or play off of it. Personally, from where I am at in my development as a haijin, I just find that very instructive and I thank you for it.

I also enjoyed the quote from Emerson, by the way, and intend to pass it along to a friend who is having a bad day today.

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Dear T.,

the difficult part is really to let go, the timing ...
After practising Japanese Archery, Kyuudoo for more than 30 years, I have come to value the exercise as a means of taiken 体験, physical experience, much more than the philosophical bubbles about it.

If you are not absolutely with the action, the bowstring will soon punish you, so to speak, with a bruise on the arm or broken spectacles or whatever ... ...
any intentions (will people like my haiku? will it go published here or there?) will hamper the natural flow ... so you have to experience the

aiming without aiming ...

I might try and put my thoughts about this

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one of these days, haha, if my arrow hits my haiku or vice versa ...

a bit of it is here
http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/04/target-mato.html

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Thank you, Gabi, that was interesting.

For me, whether someone else will like and certainly not whether it will ever get published, truly never enters my mind. It's more "Is there something WORTHY here?" Either something remarkable or a way of showing it remarkably or perhaps, does some align with something else in a way that is, well, remarkable. See what I mean?

But I do appreciate your thoughts about the arrow, which I take to mean, the direction of one's consciousness.

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This is a perfect moment... captured so well, Gabi!

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I agree...one of those rare perfect moments captured perfectly --
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meditation

morning meditation - a gray spot on my gray carpet .

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Lilies in the rain

iris in the rain - a bright star in the flower heart

little spider - trying to peek in the flower heart ??

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Flower-Heart (hana gokoro) and haiku


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rainy season -
I join my cat
for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG nap





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Cats in Paradise ..
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shizukesa ya tani o mau no wa hotaru dake

静けさや　谷を舞うのは　蛍だけ



this quietude -
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Thirsty Butterfly

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watering flowers -
a huge butterfly waits
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sheet lightning -
the frogs are quacking
louder tonight


sudden thunder -
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quacking right now



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Wetterleuchten -
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稲妻は　遠くなるや　初蛍


lightning
still so far away -
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The weather has been quite unstable, but here we are with our FIRST visitor!
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mid-day heat -
four tiny ants drag
a huge caterpillar

Watching such scenes in Kenya, I am inclined to interpret the ants' unco-ordinated dragging as the will to co-operate, handicapped by lack of overview...!

Here is a recent scene from Japan :

shinkansen platform --
a woodlouse goes its way
undeterred

Right among the passengers' big feet...!

Isabelle.

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summer morning -
another weed blossoming
by the roadside



summer lunch -
a beetle dives
into the curry pot



summer eve -
a badger nodds
its "good night"


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AHA the moment

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I guess many expect tooooo much of the

AHA moment.


For me, it is just the little things in daily life that catch my attention at any moment, on the daily walk to the letterbox all these flowers by the wayside, my cat sleeping happily in his box, a mosquito trying to pierce the window pane, the raindrops still rolling down of leaves after the rain has stopped ... the problem is to be attentive to these small things.

Once you are attentive in every moment, you see sooooo many things to add your AHA ! Sometimes I can,t stop to use the shutter of my mental camera to catch all these little bits and pieces ... just, they are not GRAND in any way, not spectacular, not sensational, but they ARE !

I have learned to be attentive during the practise of Kyudo, Japanese archery. It is the same awareness, now clad in words, not in arrows ... hahaha


a last drop
from the bent leaf ...
summer rain is over


GABI responding to some discussions about the moment.


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Tempted to go on by so many reactions ...

aaa, the "haiku no shunkan 俳句の瞬間、あああの瞬間" as it would be in Japanese, has never come　to my attention yet !

The other day a group of rakugo tellers would make senryu starting with

aa, arara

to express surprize at something


a-a arara
another forum
to spent my time

XYZ-Forum

No, I did not write WASTE ... hahaha

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My Japanese haiku sensei would say:

genba ni tatte ... write from the place where you are ... from reality, as opposed to composing from your desk.


Childhood memory ...

I guess when something was so unforgettable that you still remember now, it must have been quite a strong impresison at its real time ... therefore, somehow, you are still back there in the moment ... sort of a time slip moment ... dont know how to put that into English.

I think there is a difference between something you really experienced (either now or in the past)
and something you just make up, as you would write a novel or fiction.

i love to read biographies of famous people, but novels about nonexistant personalities are usually kind of boring ...

For me, the real quality in haiku, maybe shasei is the better word for that, brings it to live and makes it so unique.


Should we use imagination when composing a haiku?

For me, Japanese haiku is a snapshot of a moment of real life, presented without judgement or imagined embellishing whatnots ... indeed, that is the most important part of haiku training for me. This is where I find haiku so much different from Western poetry. It teaches me to be attentive, without being judgemental, philosophical or hunting for special effects.
Maybe we should go back and examine the motives of WHY we write haiku.

More about this in my LINK about shasei, sketching from real life.

My Haiku Training, My Haiku Doo 　俳 句 道


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a moment of experience

In Japanese, we sometimes call it TAIKEN　体験, experience with your whole body ... children are great at this!

Of course I KNOW that the charcoals are hot, but only when I touch them ... hopefully by accident ... can I experience this physically.
and then write my haiku about it ...

lunchtime -
a hot potato
on my plate

My husband does the cooking and I burn my fingers on the hot potatoes ... grin grin ... got this hot one before putting it into my mouth.

a "moment of real experience" is wonderful and alive and right here and now.
But stretching this to a moment of "temporary enlightenment" and then "Zen enlightenment" ... is something quite different.

HH .



Take your time to check this discussion

Susumu Takiguchi : Aha, Just A Moment, Please　



Not 'Here and Now' but
'Everywhere and Everywhen'
Haiku Time versus Newtonian Time
WHR Susumu Takiguchi


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inazuma ya kinoo wa higashi kyoo wa nishi

Enomoto Kikaku 　


flashes of lightning -
yesterday in the east
today in the west

Tr. Gabi Greve

We might wonder if this is one moment or longer ...
I remember a terrible summer in our valley, with one thunderstorm chasing the other for about two weeks. Sometimes three separate thundres would show up in one evening and keep us awake and shaking, since the thunder really reverberates in the valley, in the house and in your own body after a while ...

I would have written a haiku like this one too, after two weeks of constant fear and shaking, and still within the limits of this one moment when the thunder would come back again ... aaaa, here we go ...


flashes of lightning -
yesterday to the right
today to the left


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Quote from the SHIKI archives

What is for YOU the 'aha moment' ?

Perhaps it's the moment when one recognizes what meets the eye as being more than what meets the eye. For me that can happen in the immediate moment, but also after the fact, upon reflection. It's also the awareness of a single moment in which one or more elements are encompassed, and which may be in striking (and sometimes ironic) contrast with one another.
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Is it for you an important, an indispensable part of the haiku ?

Yes; without the 'aha' moment, it is just an interesting three-line poem.
The degree of the 'aha'-ness (!) might vary, but there is always something that makes you aware of more than just the description of the moment at hand. Here are two examples by Issa translated by Robert Hass. The first is more descriptive and pastoral, to my mind, than the second. which is more immediately striking; yet it makes me think on it longer:

snip snip

Can haiku be a neutral description of the world ?

Yes, it can be, but it is usually much more, because although a haiku poem is often a description of something (for instance) in nature, or of a single event, we bring our mind and our ability to make connections and recognize allusions and parallels elsewhere in our experience to our reading of the poem. And so the depth of it's 'description' increases. But I think Marjorie Buettner has put it much better than I.... :-)

susan bond
©　Read more in the SHIKI archives



. . . . . More LINKS about this subject !


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The Haiku Spirit

another topic often quoted in English language haiku theory.

俳句スピリツ　？？？

I wonder what this would be in Japanese?

quote
俳句随想―海外の俳人と共に俳句を考える　
　 　 烏山九齊

「芭蕉の言葉」

一、俳諧の誠（俳諧という言葉は俳句と置き換えてお考え下さい）
　見るにあり、聞くにあり、作者感ずるや句となる所は、即ち俳諧の誠なり。
解説」自分が見聞きして、感動したことがそのまま句となるのが、俳諧の誠なのである。
俳諧の誠とは、俳諧の精神 ・価値 というほどの意味で、今の言葉で言えば、詩性とでも言うのでしょう。対象に直面したときのその場の生きた感覚に重きを置き、それが作品となるところに俳句の価値があるというのです。

1. Haikai no makoto (sincerity of haiku)

A haiku poet needs to feel inspiration from the varied emotions and impressions inspired by nature via looking and listening. It is the haiku true mind. Without sincerity, there is no haiku spirit. And without the spirit, a haiku is not a haiku.

俳諧の精神 ・価値 haikai no seishin to kachi

bilingual source : 烏山九齊



The Fishing Cat Press
Thanks to webmaster Gilles Fabre, the "Haiku Spirit" begun by Jim Norton and Sean O'Connor lives in a new form.
Haiku Spirit
in English and French ... www.haikuspirit.org/


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ZEN and HAIKU ... and the moments inbetween


MORE
about writing haiku ...
in the moment

Sketching from Nature , SHASEI 写生



Rakugo ... comic storytelling performances 落語


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My Haiku Theory Archives

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some comments

Some have suggested that the moment is less "aha" than "ah."
And I think there's some confusion as to whether the moment is in the haiku or prior to it. The former view leads, I think, to greater emphasis on rules, the latter to greater formal flexibility.

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I look forward to more of your wisdom and happy haiku!


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Beetles

blackberry flowers - the biggest beetle chases its rivals

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More bees and butterflies are here
My Summer Flowers

Read my Haiku Archives 2007


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Picnic

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The days are getting warmer.
We have started cooking outside in the garden, enjoying the splendid view of the green mountains while food is simmering.
The big hawk and his wife are circling slowly over our valley.


summer picknick -
a bird dropping right into
the cooking pot


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Mukade

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signs of summer -
a centipede
in my bathtub
2007

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a centipede
takes its morning walk -
aah, my kitchen table
2009




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The messenger (retainer) of the deity
Bishamonten was thought of as a centipede!
Bishamon and the Centipede
Daruma Museum


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millipede, centipede
kigo for all summer


mukade 蜈蚣 むかで
"one hundred legs" mukade, hyakusoku 百足虫（むかで）

red centipede, aka mukade 赤蜈蚣（あかむかで）
red-headed centipede, akazu mukade赤頭蜈蚣（あかずむかで）
blue-green headed centipede, aozu mukade 青頭蜈蚣（あおずむかで）
centipede with a bird-head, tobizu mukade 鳶頭蜈蚣（とびずむかで）
"one hundred legs" mukade 百足虫（むかで）





.. .. ninehundred-nine times tock
.. .. one time tack -
.. .. centipede with a wooden leg

Gabi Greve, 2005

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