tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2659026536331999061.post4880235908362783930..comments2023-06-24T03:33:29.854-07:00Comments on Summer Haiku 2009: Found HaikuRachel Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048590167153841615noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2659026536331999061.post-49956525275782375692009-06-05T08:46:42.180-07:002009-06-05T08:46:42.180-07:00Here we go again…
I sound like President Reagan, ...Here we go again…<br /><br />I sound like President Reagan, sorry.<br /><br />I don’t fully understand haiku. However, I believe there is no distinction between a haiku made up in the head and so-called writing it naturally. The only difference I understand is direct experience versus indirect experience. If you accept that indirect experience can form a haiku than imagining some happening is as good a subject as directly experiencing one. My attempt that I made up in my head follows:<br /><br />childhood beach house<br />the wind ripples the dune<br /><br />I tried to share the longing and lose of childhood and for some, regrets of the past and a wish to start all over again. I wrote this as an attempted example to a submitters writing on tinywords and forget the context. I think something to do with the beach was in the original submitted poem and whether I succeeded is another matter. My point is that I imagined this poem from indirect bits of experience. I have seen sand dunes ripple from the wind and have seen in movies where the main character looks at a location where they grew up in and remembered their happy or sad moments like in the movie “Scrooge” or “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” that comes to mind. It’s a bit of a cliché, but I used the ripples in the sand as a reference to the sands of time. <br /><br />When you mention natural writing as opposed to writing poetry in your head, I believe that is a false distinction. Maybe it has roots in religion, original sin that is humanity versus nature. What is synthetic, a well-groomed lawn compared to a clearing in the forest. I believe we are part of nature and what we imagine is from combining different bits of direct or indirect experience into a particular expression or feeling. We don’t create that implies nothing from something. We imagine a feeling that we may not have had a direct experience but can infer it. Empathy is a strong understanding. <br /><br />I believe that imagined or direct experience is both valid expressions in my limited understanding of haiku. <br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />martin<br /><br />PS I liked the haiku.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2659026536331999061.post-59666687626789279642009-06-03T02:09:26.605-07:002009-06-03T02:09:26.605-07:00I like it, Alan!I like it, Alan!norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02228725106863747984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2659026536331999061.post-84659540624254608892009-06-01T09:01:21.213-07:002009-06-01T09:01:21.213-07:00good stuff Alan
johngood stuff Alan<br />johnJohn McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306609410526737715noreply@blogger.com