There's a new weekly prompt on
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai called Sparkling Stars... and this is what it's all about:
I love to introduce an all new feature here at our Haiku Kai. It's a bit
similar with the CD-Specials, but there is a little difference. In
every episode (once a week on Thursday) I will introduce a 'masterpiece'
of one of the classic haiku-poets (well-known and less-known) to
inspire you to write a new haiku. Here is the difference with the
CD-Specials. Those new haiku, inspired on the 'masterpiece', have to
follow the classical rules of haiku:
1. 5-7-5 syllables
2. a kigo (or seasonword)
3. a kireji (or cutting word, in Western languages mostly interpunction)
4. a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water
5. a deeper meaning (could be Zen-Buddhistic or other spiritual or religious thought)
6. and the first and the third line are interchangeable.
Here's the poem and explanation of that poem which we should try to use to write our new classical haiku:
This one became that famous, because until than, the frog was used only
for its own croaking and not for its movement. As you can see this
translation doesn't follow the classical count, but in the Japanese Onji
it follows for sure that count. 'Frog" is a seasonword (kigo) for
Summer; the "-" is the cutting word (can be translated into the Japanese
"ya"); it's a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into
water; the deeper meaning is in the 'movement' of the frog and if you
interchange the first and third line the haiku is almost the same:
sound of water (-)
a frog jumps in
the old pond (Matsuo Basho)
To further help us, Chèvrefeuille writes:
in the dark forest
walking in the full moon light -
Nightingale's song
© Chèvrefeuille
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first light on the mount
Chittering swallows fly high
- touching paradise
summer morning thoughts
contemplating paradise
a spider's new web
calm silent morning
cat's mating in the back yard
a new perspective
© G.s.k. '14
