10/27/2007

LAST haiku

  
  



Aim at the sun and you may not reach it;
but your arrow will fly far higher
than if you had aimed at an object
on a level with yourself.


-- F. Hawes



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That is an interesting thought.

My Kyudo (Archery) Teacher would say:

Aim behind the target !
Shoot each arrow as if it was your last one !
Be here and now !



and the Kendo Teacher:

Batteling with five opponents,
use your force as if they were seven.




Can we apply this to Haiku? Here is my haiku sensei:


Write each haiku as if it was your last one !
There is no tomorrow to reach,
there is only NOW to write.







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Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is putting out the lamp
because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore


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. Death Poems (jisei 辞世) .


Death and dead persons .


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