Haiku Happen
We often see or sense something that gives us a bit of a lift, or a moment's pure sandness perhaps it is the funnies flapping in the breeze a newsstand on a sunny spring day. or some scent on the wind catches us as we step from the bus, or bend to lift the griceties from the car. Something tickles our ankle and, looking down to see what it is, wee see more.
a baby crab
climbs up my leg-
such clear water
or we ane lying awake, alone with our thought, an as we turn to look at the clock
at midnight
a distant door
pulled shut
and we find oursellves more alone, because of the being on the other side of that door, than when we had no thoughts for others anywhere in the world.
The first of these two short pems was written about three hundred years ago by the japanese pert Matsuo Basho. The period is by twentieth money japanese poet, Ozaki Hosai. Both poems Haiku.
Moments that can give rise to Haiku are not to foreign to the Americas. Mark Clamer has translated following pem, originally written in Spanish BY the mexican Poet Jose Juan Tablada a few years before Hosai wrote at midnight:
Tender Willow
Almost Gold, Almost Amber,
Almost Light
And just recenly New Jerseyan Penny Harter Lound
The Old Doll
Her mama box broken
To half a cry
Haiku happen all time, whatever there are people who are "to Touch" with the world of their senses, and with their own feeling responseto it.
By: William J Higginson, Penny Harter.
The Haiku handbook.
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