Daily Haikai & Haiku

Yeah I can only imagine. Good to hear you're well amongst it all.

Cheers Kris - yeah been a weird and slow start to the year. Keen to get back into it tho! Happy new years to you and yours! Hope all is well.

Aw thanks John! 🖤

Hehe, I know what you mean. Aw thanks Kris - that means a lot.

Though take me with a grain of salt where mainstream haiku is concerned. My own approach is somewhat distinct to the Haiku Foundation or any of the major journals. ;-)

Love the size of this one! It expands and contracts.

楠も動くやうなり蝉の声 [梅雀] even the camphor seems to be shaking, cicada's song Baijaku (?) [tr. Dick Whyte]

#俳句 #haiku #poet:Baijaku #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤

日盛は煮えたつ蝉の林かな [露英] midday sun cicadas simmering . . . in the woods Roei (?) [tr. Dick Whyte]

#俳句 #haiku #poet:Roei #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤

Oh also - thanks for the correction - I accidentally put 774 instead of 1774 😂 What in the Manyōshū!

Wonderful and poignant! 🖤

Awww - lovely Jim 🖤

竹に來て雪より重し蝉の声 [桃月] heavier than snow on bamboo, cicada's song Tōgetsu [tr. Dick Whyte]

#俳句 #haiku #poet:Tōgetsu #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤

This is the way!

doubting even
that i know nothing—
burning
in the flame of summer,
flame of poetry

🖤

Good for you! Love that 🖤

Yes exactly this. I ended up leaving all haiku communities about 5-6 years ago for this very reason. Not that I didn’t meet good people, but the framework was wrong from the outset - based as you point out in power and territorialization. So much confusion and fragmentation and gatekeeping.

This is exactly what I am hoping the book will be - because I had exactly the same experience and it was deeply frustrating a lot of the time haha. It’s taken about ten years to gather all the fragments together - and there’s still more to come, but I’m getting there haha.

Aw cheers! Really appreciate the commentary and share! Yeah agreed - I am working on a much larger book which will address many of these questions. It's a complex task figuring out the best way to approach it, while also being useful for beginners, etc. Will start work on it properly next year. 🖤

Hahahaha - love the senryū-spin on this one!

Awww love this John - I'm always a sucker for poems about writing the poem 🖤

Aw nice 🖤

An old #haiku of mine from 2009;

chasing
its own shadow—
a butterfly

🖤

追はれてもいそがぬふりの蝴蝶かな [我樂] even chased it never seems hurried . . . the butterfly Gagō (?) [tr. Dick Whyte]

#俳句 #haiku #poet:Gagō #kigo:summer #kigo:butterfly ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use "butterfly" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤

Beautiful Kris - a light and supple tsukeku to Chiyo's hokku. I am sure she would approve! 🖤

Aw beautiful Kris - has a real depth to it. Wonderful cap! 🖤

Lovely! 🖤

Haha - love that John. Most of my ku are written that way now too. On the move . . .

Always brother 🖤

It seems like introducing sound was definitely the vibe for capping this verse. A nice play on the original John.

Lovely Joe! 🖤 Wonderful sense of scale in this one, from the very very large, to the very very small.

Aw, a gentle and intimate cap John, with a lot of karumi. 🖤