Also published for: The Purple Tree House, back to basic
Hello to you all. Another Sensational Haiku Wednesday. This week's prompt is "silhouette", must be an easy one I think. Let's go do it and join the fun of writing haiku.
boy's silhouette
on the white mansion wall
between sunflowers
under the willow
on the city's graveyard
weeping silhouette
playing with the sun
the shadows of my children
on the white wall
I have tried to write these haiku in the classical form of 5-7-5 syllables, not so easy as I thought, because I write my haiku mostly in the Kanshicho-style. In this style the syllable count is different.
Well ... until next week :)
Unusual but lovely haiku.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, and I love the lovely willow in the photo too.
ReplyDeleteI am not familiar with Kanshicho-style Haiku ... I will have to look it up. You did a great job here ... I like the visual imagery!!
ReplyDeleteloved this thank you x
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your kind words. Kanshicho-style is a haiku-style which was used by Matsuo Basho for several years. It's different with the classical haiku form which counts 5-7-5 syllables, in the Kanshicho-style the syllable count can be e.g. 4-9-3 or 5-10-2 and so on. It's a style of writing haiku that's more used in the Western World.
ReplyDeleteFor example:
a lonely flower
my companion
for one night
In this the syllable count is 6-5-4
Lovely combination of image and Haiku. I have never seen this type of Haiku before either. Thank you for introducing me to it.
ReplyDeleteHere is my entry: http://www.jackedwardspoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/sorry-performance-poem.html
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ReplyDeleteSilhouettes noires
dans la rue à l'écart -
s'éloignent.
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Nice!
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empty room
only trembles on wall
pine's shadow
Thank you all for your nice comments. I see that some of you have tried the Kanshicho-style haiku ... it's a lovely style and I hope that there will be more haiku poets who are going to try this style. It's an original style which Basho used for several years (1682-1685). Kanshicho-style means "in the way of Chinese poems). No syllable-count. It was a reaction on the Danrin-school.
ReplyDeleteWell enjoy :)
a nice song
an ancient way
to write haiku
I really like what you have done here!
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Hi Belva and Taylor, I feel humble. You're both giving such nice words to me about my haiku. Thank you so much.
ReplyDeleteNamaste