My name is Haiku My name is Haiku descriptive text by Cathy
with grateful thanks to Jane Reichhold,
Bare Bones School of Haiku (click >> new window),
and to the 'Editorial Committee'
>> click >> read some haiku written in Autumn 2011 by our members
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| I am a very short Japanese poem consisting of 17 jion* written in 3 lines. In Western countries*, jion have been replaced by syllables (which are longer than jion). | ||||
| The 3 lines are usually arranged as follows : | ||||
| 1st line, short 2nd line, long 3rd line, short |
-OR- | 1st line with 5 syllables 2nd line with 7 syllables 3rd line with 5 syllables |
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Centuries ago |
17th century |
Early in the 20th century |
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I was a part of TANKA (also called WAKA) 1 hokku (17 jion*) |
Matsuo Basho gave up the verse and kept the form with a single hokku |
Shiki Masaoka renamed hokku and here I was! HAIKU |
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I am like a camera or a photographer, snapping any event of my haijin's* daily life* at a given moment (now) and at a given place (here). I feel so pleased when people read me straight through* and when my haijin makes me simply using her or his senses* ! |
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| jion the smallest phonetic unit, in Japanese (often shorter than an English syllable) |
haijin a writer of haiku = a haiku poet |
camera not a movie camera! = un appareil photo, pas une caméra |
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to snap = prendre un cliché |
read me straight through |
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| sketch = une esquisse | senses = les 5 sens |
Western countries = les pays occidentaux |
>> click >> read some haiku written in Autumn 2011 by our members
>> click >> read haiku written by our teenagers in March 2012
>> click >> read haiku written by children and teenagers in March 2015