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Blue is White
08 Feb 2016 5 Comments
in Blue is White, Poetry, Rainbow Tags: Blue is White, Emma Kaufman, epitome, hovers on white light, ROYGBIV, spectral hue, spectrum blue violet
Feb 08, 2016 @ 11:47:39
Lovely haiku, Jeanne. What beautiful inspiration.
Feb 08, 2016 @ 12:55:27
Hi.
Do you know what a modern haiku is ?
Jeanne
Feb 08, 2016 @ 13:23:15
Is that when it doesn’t stick to a syllable count?
Feb 08, 2016 @ 13:23:35
I’ve just ordered some haikubes š
Feb 09, 2016 @ 10:27:59
Modern Haiku
What do they all have in common? Is there an essence left?
In my mind, what it boils down to is minimalism and a revelation about the moment. I think Basho, Buson and Issa would approve. Itās important to remember that the reason we talk about their work as being still viable today is that they also walked the line between tradition and breaking tradition.
Many people come to haiku from a certain kind of esthetic that includes Eastern spiritual practices or an appreciation for nature. Natureās role in the art has long been a focal point. But even this has come into question with modern haiku poets. Loosen the stipulation that haiku revolves around nature images and you get haiku like this from Nicholas Virgilio:
my dead brotherā¦
hearing his laugh
in my laughter
Donāt worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually.
āIssa trans. Robert Hass
There are so many ārulesā for haiku: length, person, tense, images (kind of images and how they interact), number of images, the functions of the lines, the function of the poem, the payoff of the poem, tone, subject matter, punctuation, types of phrasing, contextā¦and that is just off the top of my head.
Itās a far cry from just sticking a frog in a pond in three lines. Does any other poetic form have as many requirements? Itās a bit like playing harmonica. Anyone can grab one in the right key and think they can play it. But to get to the instrumentās real potentialā¦to play the notes that donāt seem to physically be on thereā¦that is a different story altogether! Isnāt it?
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2011/09/24/what-is-the-essence-of-modern-american-haiku/