. . I really hope the times of icy bamboo will be over soon ! :o) Still, every morning way below zero centigrade .. icy bamboo <> I touch the joints of my cold...
rape flowers are a kigo for spring, they cover the ground everywhere as weed and planted. Na no hana ya (first 5-syllable)......How beautiful the rape...
. From: Susumu Takiguchi 01/03/05 Re: Announcement: New Appointments at WHCbeginners Forum The World Haiku Club is pleased to announce two new appointments. ...
. eating sweets <> a cold winter day less cold Suessigkeiten essen <> ein kalter Wintertag weniger kalt Humans like sweets, especially in winter times they...
. grafitti walls <> Old Ryokan giggeling in his cold hut These days I feel more and more like old Ryokan in his remote Gogoo- An, the cold hut in the North of...
the virtual world full of turmoiled waves <> spring in my valley Good Cold Morning form Japan ! gabi san [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
fahne im wind - der geist still .. .. .. .. .. .. flag in the wind - .. .. .. .. .. .. the mind .. .. .. .. .. .. unmoved Read some of my latest musings of...
. Look at some amazing Images and Reflections Photographs by Yao Xiang with accompanying haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and others Series I to Series VI ...
Hints on writing haiku From the NHK Haidan programm: Haiku must try to find the essence, so first get rid of the meat around the bones, then get rid of the...
... using ... richness of ... Dear Gabi san It is a bit of a wonderful mystery that cherry blossoms are the marrow of haijin bones. Where does any haiku lie......
... the richness of human feelings through seasonal natural phenomenon. ... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Well, Chibi san, then you are on the right way...
A friend reminds me ... "There is no definition of haiku in Japanese. Haiku are what the poets make them." Frogpond, XXVIII:1, 2005 ... I guess our members who...
Here is a quote from the internet about defining haiku http://www.hsa-haiku.org/HSA_Definitions_2004.html HAIKU SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Inc. Report of the...
Freedom and Haiku In my beginning days of learning Japanese haiku with a group of serious elderly Japanese, our Sensei was a well-educated, gentle lady trying...
love season for cats - the neighbours daddy too returns in the morning neko no koi - tonari no papa mo asa-gaeri Gabi see the entry of CAT as a kigo here ...
Dear Gabi san Open the heart... what comes in goes out. It is so with the thinking of sensei Akegarasu from the first day I met him. A popular cliche' is,...
yellow crocusses <> the brightest one visited by two bees There is a huge cluster just outside my favorite window seat... Greetings from one leg of spring Gabi...
. Definitons of haiku are not easy. Here is a nice Japanese one which I like very much. Since Japanese haiku are mostly defined by the form, to start with,...
. Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. Robert Bresson ......................... To make it visible, make a haiku about it. the...
sugi kafun chawan no naka no ki-iro maku cedar pollen <> in the teacup a yellow cover Zedernpollen <> in der Teetasse gelber Puder Whith every wind gust, more...
Dear all, Have just received a newsletter from an Osaka group of hotels, byproduct of an online registration a couple of years back. Today's edition is one of...
Hi Isabelle, thanks for the many links. We get the sakura forecast on a daily base in the national news, before any other topic, since about two weeks ago. It...