#NaHaiWriMo 2017 – day two

mist fills the morning
everything blanketed in frost
the air so still

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in the art gallery
watercolour of a wave
whispering

#NaHaiWriMo 2017 – day one

wave after wave

wind rises from a whisper

to full throated roar

wave gives birth to wave

absorbs all things great and small

gives birth to a new thing

wave upon wave

everything churning

the waters muddy

wave over wave

i am carried back and forth

my feet without purchase

wave chases wave

gravity’s inexorable pull

the shore is a dream

waves become wave

becomes a wall – all that weight

pressure blankets me

wave seeks its freedom

braces itself against me

the spray an entreaty

this is the wave

it is neither friend nor foe

this is the wave

#NaHaiWriMo 2017!

This February is National Haiku Writing Month and, building on National Poetry Writing Month, I am going to attempt to write [a minimum of] a haiku a day. 

While we are taught in school that haiku always utilize a 5-7-5 syllable structure, it isn't necessarily so. The 5-7-5 structure more accurately reflects a 5-7-5 sound structure in the Japanese. More important than the structure is the way haiku present or describe one's experience of the world through one's senses - it is about the feelings caused by the world around us, especially by observing nature.

Did you know that haiku were originally the opening stanzas for renga, which are comprised of linked 2 or 3 line stanzas, often hundreds of lines long? now that sounds like a challenge...

 

the ways in which we voice desire

* i couldn't figure out how to format the text, so i imported it as a JPEG

merry christmas