Sunday, March 31, 2019

Funny Bunny Fridays Week 18, Poetry Form Week 14 (Haiku forms)

Some of the times, Haiku also shows of an acceptance of the life’s impermanence. The most famous Haiku Master Basho’s haiku some times also demonstrates the genuine Buddhist enlightenment. The following very famous Haiku by the most famous Haiku Master Basho expresses most vividly the truth – the enactment of both, the phenomenon, what is and its passing. In this Haiku, a creature living unconsciously, according to its nature, is shown in the context of the man made artifice of an old garden pond, highlighting the simple bare and eternally ordinary ‘is-ness’ of all existence in the present moment:

Old pond
A frog jumps in,
The sound of water

The Milestones…
After Basho, there have been many great poets who took Haiku to the greater heights …

Buson

The bite of my axe.
Sudden revelation –
There is life in this tree!

As Buson accepts his death quietly in this farewell poem

White plum blossoms,
Night turns to dawn –
The time has come



Kobayashi Issa

Alone among the shady bushes
A girl is singing
A rice planter's song

Masaoka Shiki

A river in summer
There’s a bridge here, but
My horse prefers water
Kaikyo

With useless authority
The great horned owl
Sits moon-eyed in daylight

Etsujin

I envy the tomcat:
How easily he lets go of
Love’s pain and longing

Ranran

The child cries at her breast.
And the mosquito also bites
The sleeping mother

Senna

With ink-stained lips,
The boy leaves his poem
For the cool outdoors

Basho


Stillness and solitude –
Sinking into stones,
The trill of cicadas

And melancholy sadness and tranquility (Sabi and Shori)

On a withered branch
A crow has settled.
Nightfall in autumn.

- Basho

Or in the spirit of poetic madness (Fukyo)

Let me show you,
You market people,
This hat filled with snow.

- Basho
 
And sometimes in shockingly comic ‘lightness’ (Karumi)

A bush warbler
Leaves its droppings on the rice cake
At the edge of the verandah.

-Basho


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balloon love, 
it can not be true
yet it is artificial from distance

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16 comments:

  1. a haiku prompt, which means fun fine words all month long.

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  2. we are doing Haiku and Humor this April month....
    Thanks for sharing

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  3. david boren and barack obama,
    why crying for more attention
    the drop of a golden cup


    jason grife and corey gunn
    what is your best moments?
    the clapping sound of a parent

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  4. very good way to spend my day ...

    A bush warbler
    Leaves its droppings on the rice cake
    At the edge of the verandah


    calvin victory
    tracing a family tie back to Tang dynasty
    a party hosted on the moon

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  5. hi,

    i do enjoy poetry in haiku form


    lulu.com

    Ariel
    Tom
    Seth
    Wilson
    Mark
    Enchanted
    Terry murphy

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  6. lulu.com poetry


    Igor
    Larry
    Eric Schmidt
    Steven Federle
    Steven Moore
    Victor
    Eric Wood

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  7. lulu.com

    mimi
    gary jones
    xu xiangyang
    gordon krantz
    keelan
    rebecca coriston
    michelle coriston
    jane schapiro
    matthew

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  8. love these

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    jay
    sheila moore
    thoughts that breathe
    james kingfisher
    kelie elmore
    jingle yan
    amelia wilson
    penny wilson
    george
    joyce
    lottie evelyn williams
    peter
    irene

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  9. 陈省身

    https://jimsonweedsandlawrencewilcoxtomas.blogspot.com/2019/04/short-story-slam-week-112-blogging-from.html

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  10. who do these?

    I prefer rudyard kipling and robert frost.

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