a shriek of an owl
pursues the moon's shadow
- tanka meditation
ponder on haiku
a frog jumps into the pond
- remember Bashô*
muse of haibun
slurp a cup of sencha tea
- dedicated to Issa*
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Meditate with haiku through the four seasons: haiku poems can be a medium to meditation and often have an inkling to the season. Matsuo Basho a Zen-Buddhist of the 17th century spent a good part of his life writing haiku. Destitute and in search for enlightenment, the art of writing poetry was a way of meditation to refine the plainness of language.
sick on a journey
my dreams wander along
the withered fields
Matsuo Bashô*
Haiku poems are like delicate watercolours, hues of words put on paper. Haiku poets hunt for the shortest form possible of poetry, which is issued from the tanka, one of the oldest form of poems in history of literature, to express feelings, thoughts, knowledge, impressions and fantasies drawn on paper. Words turned into visual arts.
a life of running
running away from duty
summer cicada
Kobayashi Issa*
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