haiku

[rayheinrich]

thank you Mark. wonderful suggestions. though i know haiku should not be too personal and it should capture the moment, sometimes it ends up like this. i'll be back with an edit.

People are always going on about the 'personal' thing; they couldn't be more wrong.
From two of the masters:

I’m a wanderer
so let that be my name –
the first winter rain           ~ Basho

After killing
a spider, how lonely I feel
in the cold of night!         ~ Shiki


Haiku are INTIMATE poems. They're about humans interacting with nature.
While many times the presence of the observer is not overt, it is always assumed.
Nature doesn't write haiku!