lightning
on a hedgehog’s spikes
raindrops

 

 

(originally appeared in 120th WHA Haiga Contest, May 2014)

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Robert Kania

Robert Kania lives in Warsaw, Poland. He began writing poetry in 2011. His works (haiku, haiga) have appeared in The Heron's Nest, The Mainichi, Asahi Haikuist Network, A Hundred Gourds, World Haiku Review, KUZU, Diogen, Art & Business, DailyHaiga and World Haiku Association.Prize Winner of the 15th HIA Haiku Contest 2013. Co-editor (with Krzysztof Kokot) of the European Quarterly Kukai (http://europeankukai.blogspot.com).

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  1. Dear Robert,

    I love hedgehog haiku. :-)

    lightning
    on a hedgehog’s spikes
    raindrops

    (originally appeared in 120th WHA Haiga Contest, May 2014)
    —ROBERT KANIA

    Incredibly atmospheric with those lightning bolts reflected off the hedgehog's spikes.

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    Here's a one-line haiku:

    after rain midnight dreams a hedgehog

    Alan Summers
    Publication Credit: brass bell: a haiku journal
    One-Line Haiku curated by Zee Zahava (Monday, September 1, 2014)

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  4. I particularly like the sense of realism in the timing in this haiku, Robert.

    There is the brief, sudden opening of a lightening flash, then a sense of a pause before the second line, and in that pause the poet appears to be puzzling over the fragmented visual image of what was just illuminated. Then it is all pieced together, and it is bizarre and real and wonderful. What an unforgettable image – rain drops on the spines of a hedgehog (and we don't even have hedgehogs in Australia) – all glimpsed in a lightning flash. Indeed, if I were a Zen devotee, I might even say you have captured a moment of satori.

    A camera might capture an image of such an animal in a flash photo, but your haiku reveals the animal, and the observer, and the flash, in a transcendental 3 line moment.

    Wonderful poetry, Robert. Thank you for sharing it with us.

    Strider

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