Grandpa Haiku

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winter sunshine -
Grandpa Haiku smiles
at the Juniors



Some poets are discussing the future of Haiku outside the Japanese language and what naming should be used for short poems "in the Haiku Spirit" (whatever that may be).

Seems there is now more attention to the fact that for example "American Haiku" is a species of its own, so is "German Haiku" etc.


I come to differentiate between the traditional Japanese haiku and a few other types, same discussion as before.

Haiku is Japanese .




Aaa, Grandpa Haiku, watch out!

Here comes the Haiku Avantgarde
and tries to ride your oldfashioned car.

BUT

One wheel has to go, who needs 5-7-5, or S-L-S?
And that other wheel too, who needs a kigo?
And next the wheel called "kireji", the visible cut marker.

Now they sit in the one-wheel vehicle,
trying to ride into the New World Sunshine!
Making up "rules" as they go along ...



winter rain -
Granpa Haiku just smiles
at the Juniors



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CHECK THIS
Basic Conditions of Japanese Language Haiku
Inahata Teiko


. . . Read my Haiku Archives 2008


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