What Is Haiku?

"What is Haiku?"

That is a very good question.

Haiku is a Very Short Form of Japanese Poetry.

from Wikipedia 

"It is typically characterized by three qualities. The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru). This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colors the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related. Traditional haiku consist of 17 on (also known as morae though often loosely translated as "syllables"), in three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on respectively. A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such words. In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line while haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku."

I Apologies

私の謝罪

For Sunday's Absentia

日曜日の不在のため

A Writer Should Write

作家が書く必要があります。

There you have my apology for missing a day of writing on this

Blog

Sunday,

in the form of

Haiku.

It just doesn't translate very well in

English.

*****

Here is my attempt at it but it is probably too long.

 

A rose petal breaks away

Fluttering on a slight breeze

Absorbing the red hue

From the sun

So it's beauty

I can see

 

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looking into the beautiful

Milky Way,

but the weather gets in your way?

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Astrophotography by Gerald Rhemann

Quote from the photographer. "Astrophotography is the art of photographing the sky above, bringing faint objects of the cosmos to life, and showing just how beautiful our universe is. Apart from imaging the universe there is also a scientific reason why I do this."

Here are just a few of his wonderful work.

Fox Fur Nebula

Comet C/2013X1 Panstarrs

 NGC 7293 Helix Nebula Constellation Aquarius

 
Now,

aren't you happy I answered those

Questions

you didn't know you wanted to ask!

This is,

I'm Still Not Sure If I Understand How To Write 

Haiku Yet

But I Like It

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“What a strange thing! To be alive, beneath cherry blossoms.”
- Kobayashi Issa, -

 

 That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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