Daily Sip - Haiku

The smallest of sips:

Clouds appear
and bring to men a chance to rest
from looking at the moon.

-Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

Damn...I am really impressed and actually moved the most by little verses when holding such an impact, than I'm moved by long poems. This was beautiful...very!

Sharing it on facebook now..thanks sib!!

That's a Haiku? It's 3-8-6.. which I guess is still 17 syllables..

I do love this, though.

Wait, that's not the right syllable count...

EDIT: Britt got to it first.

Lovely little read.

Well, this was written by a Japanese guy in the 1600's, so I'm assuming that it's a translation.

Jordan was making a good point to me in PM, though. The 5-7-5 structure corresponds to something that's not quite a syllable in Japanese, but we don't have a perfect correlate. Most (professional) poets do not necessarily feel the need to stick strictly to the ol' 5-7-5 rule. It's better to have a well-constructed poem, and conform to the "spirit" of haiku.

Maybe Jordan wants to post that up. But, heh, I was just reading off Wikipedia....

I have a book by this poet Sibs...The Narrow Road to the Deep North..if you haven't read it I'd recommend it to everyone.

Haiku were originally written in Kanji and when translated into english were never as we've come to know them. I'm sure Kiko will come on here and add more information...he's the man when it comes to Haiku.

Not kiss*** asses here, but whatever Hellon recommends I advice you to take into consideration! Esp movies and songs :P

I like the title of that book, Hellon! I'm going to look for it.

I had a hard job finding it Nana so...good luck. Published by Penguin.

Peguins AGAIN, egh this word "penguin" has been hunting me for days. like..OMG!

And we'll see! :D

It has to do with a unit called 'onji' in Japanese. I don't quite grasp it, but from what I understand, it's each separate unit in a Japanese word. A good example would be something like:

hokkaido the word has 3 syllables:

ho-kkai-do

but I think it would have maybe 5 onji:

ho-k-ka-i-do,

each onji being represented by one katakana symbol.

I THINK that's how it works.

I'll trust the linguistics major, as far as we're concerned : )

It kind of breaks you out of the haiku restriction, doesn't it? I do love haiku. They're such moments.

Maybe we should try a few.

HAIKU THREAD ENGAGING!

My latest attempt. Not a haiku, but a senryu:

Powerless

Sitting, waiting, idle
Cherishing his own power
Turbines lighting rooms