Discuss: Kana
Pick Up Your Pens, Readers! In his article "Kana," Chris Dombrowski writes, "Because the haiku is wedded to 'the instant' and to speed of comprehension, it serves as an ideal poetic net for the mind hoping to capture such minnow-quick moments of bafflement or awe." So all you closet poets out there, show us your best three-line poem (that's right -- no more than three lines!) that captures some sweet or unexpected moment. Traditionally, English haiku consist of five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. The Japanese, however, count sounds, not syllables, so we'll give you a few syllables of leeway if you really need it...
45 comments
1 josh on Mar 04, 2008
2 marisa on Mar 04, 2008
Perfection through light
Delighted faces turned east
Breathe deep the sweet scent
3 Pat on Mar 04, 2008
Four-toed print in mud.
Cougar, I want to see you
First.
4 Cameron Wilson on Mar 04, 2008
Four Possible Titles (the text is full of them):
Amazement at the Everyday
Now That’s a Horse!
Recall Only Wonder
And a Mushroom!
5 Ben on Mar 05, 2008
Millions of fish, wheels
and drizzle, mountains I cannot
see. Time to go.
6 Gita on Mar 05, 2008
Warm and golden dough
Envelopes secret lemon:
Ah, fresh Krispy Kreme.
7 Bryan on Mar 05, 2008
The wind, slight or strong,
Wishpers or wails, yet never
Does it lose its breath.
8 Douglas Brunt on Mar 05, 2008
Jade-head mallards
the red canoe
whispers through silver reeds
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Reflections of light
Resonates in taste
Harvest of dew drops