art studio …
an ant’s shadow
traces the peony
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Stanford M. Forrester
Stanford M. Forrester is a past president of the Haiku Society of America as well as the editor of bottle rockets: a collection of short verse, which boasts its 14th year in print. Stanford has had poems published in many journals and anthologies worldwide. He perhaps is most proud of his haiku being included in Haiku edited by Peter Washington in the Everyman's Pocket Poetry Series published by Knopf and American Zen: A Gathering of Poets published by Bottomdog Press. In 2004 he took first seat in the 57th Annual Basho Anthology Contest in Ueno, Japan and in 2012, one of his haiku won second place in the International Robert Frost Poetry & Haiku contest. View all posts by Stanford M. Forrester
I am interested in your take on the English 5-7-5 rule and how haiku translations do not strictly follow it as well as this rule in creating haiku. Thanx :-_-:
Valerie, this question comes up a lot, and it’s answered right here on tinywords: see About haiku
Ah… the visual presented through a dream.
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your feet
hide a shadow
not yet thrown
in answering valerie, “i” feel the 5-7-5 rule makes for good study; of what once was. today, there’s a vain attempt to recreate, in the english language, the japanese haiku of old. albeit, something more wonderful can emerge; akin to the fledgling taking wing from the spent pale shell.
valerie go for it, whatever you can draw from the bottomless well, called inspiration…
i like this closely-observed haiku, particularly the fact that it is the tiny ant’s shadow which is tracing the flower.
thanks for this startling and memorable image.
this daffodil
in the midst of the daffodil field
yellow the sun