SOUND Haiku

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Haiku - Once a daybreak habit in West Seattle

SOUND Haiku




The moon nearly full
Is hiding behind dark clouds
Glowing on the Sound


   Morning almost here
   The sound of brewing coffee
   Breaking the silence


      Quieting the mind
      I sit and write my Haiku
      Beginning the day


         Before day begins
         I do not fear the darkness
         I welcome quiet


      A good time to live
      Peacefully before the dawn
      A good time to die


   Night still covers sky
   The morning Haiku begins
   Starting the new day


Footsteps on the shore
Moving sand out of its place
Changing the whole world


   My only desire
   Is to live in harmony
   Just for a moment


      A new day begins
      What to do to contribute
      I breathe in and out


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RHPeat commented on SOUND Haiku

12-31-2010

There is a Japanese form similar to this Called renga or renku that needs two or more poets. A haiku is followed by 2 line of 7 word sounds forming like a tanka by the two poets. It's then continued 36 times. The haiku is the first poet and the following 2 lines are by the next poet. It alternates through the complete poem: lines as: 3,2,3,2,3,2,3,2, Etc. A poet friend// RH Peat

thecross commented on SOUND Haiku

12-27-2010

I love haikus and reading yours makes me love them even more. This part was absolutely incredible "My only desire Is to live in harmony Just for a moment" so much was said there I wouldn't know where to begin

Stryx

12/27/2010

If it touches you, know that you touched it. We know only what is within us to discover.

Hampton commented on SOUND Haiku

10-24-2010

Well written and smooth as silk................................Hampton

Stryx

10/24/2010

Thank you, friend.

ginga commented on SOUND Haiku

10-18-2010

Stryx, Your words of wisdom give me a sense of calm and delight! ty ginga

Stryx

10/18/2010

The Sound Haiku was a doubleentendre. We lived on Puget Sound at the time. Thanks for your kind words, g.

Teardrops commented on SOUND Haiku

10-16-2010

Bill this is wonderful and damed good too . Great write my friend Marie

Stryx

10/16/2010

Finally got this 'puter to open the site. Thank you, Marie.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

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