Today's haiku

[conuly]

Dripping, dropping, wet.
Running, chasing down my back.
Running, swimming home.

Haiku - it's a tougher art form than it seems. Maybe it's easier in Japanese?

Comments

[ratkrycek.livejournal.com]

Actually, I find that beautiful.

I love haiku. It's hard, but - when it's right and/or good, it's right there, spot on.

As for it being easier in Japanese than American - I've heard it said that no American translation could ever accurately portray a Japanese haiku, and vice versa, presuumably, because of the way Japanese is as a laguage. But I like haiku just fine, whether Japanese or English by origin of the poem - it's such an exact, beautiful way to describe (whatever) - it's its own thing.

I wonder about the Japanese thing, too - wonder how the Japanese experience haikus. As images? As sensation?

It;s beautiful stuff - keep at it!

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

I really like this one!!

[peaseblossom03.livejournal.com]

Have you ever been to snarky_haiku?

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

That's a good one! I can't do them. My daughter is amazing at them and can come up with one in no time at all -- and will insult people in haiku. Actually she goes back and forth at it with her dad but he runs out of ideas before she does with it.

I cannot write anything resembling a poem. At all.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Believe me, it's not.

But that one is beautiful.

[idonotlikepeas]

I've been told that it's actually more difficult to write them in Japanese.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

You know what I just realized? You could swim home in Venice... I wanna move to Venice... (Although I have no clue if the water's clean enough to swim in...)

[ratkrycek.livejournal.com]

Actually, I find that beautiful.

I love haiku. It's hard, but - when it's right and/or good, it's right there, spot on.

As for it being easier in Japanese than American - I've heard it said that no American translation could ever accurately portray a Japanese haiku, and vice versa, presuumably, because of the way Japanese is as a laguage. But I like haiku just fine, whether Japanese or English by origin of the poem - it's such an exact, beautiful way to describe (whatever) - it's its own thing.

I wonder about the Japanese thing, too - wonder how the Japanese experience haikus. As images? As sensation?

It;s beautiful stuff - keep at it!

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

I really like this one!!

[peaseblossom03.livejournal.com]

Have you ever been to snarky_haiku?

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

That's a good one! I can't do them. My daughter is amazing at them and can come up with one in no time at all -- and will insult people in haiku. Actually she goes back and forth at it with her dad but he runs out of ideas before she does with it.

I cannot write anything resembling a poem. At all.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Believe me, it's not.

But that one is beautiful.

[idonotlikepeas]

I've been told that it's actually more difficult to write them in Japanese.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

You know what I just realized? You could swim home in Venice... I wanna move to Venice... (Although I have no clue if the water's clean enough to swim in...)