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The long road home - Renku
Before the dawn
my shoes are tied tight
to clean feet
the crunching of gravel
echoes cereal
in his bed
a lonely pillow
in her arms
a bundle of flowers
laying in the grass
sunrise
and the lake is lit
by swans
an old man passes by
carrying a chess board
along the way
a blackbird protests
the intrusion
the high tide of dew
recedes into hedge shadows
mockingbird
testing its wings
leaves tremble
as the train
slips by the tenements
on a stone wall
slugs follow paving lines
inquisitively
she watches the tom cat
with one hand on her hip
while the kids
play stick ball in the streets
this summer evening
the wasps' nest
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Literature
The long road home - Renku
Before the dawn
my shoes are tied tight
to clean feet
the crunching of gravel
echoes cereal
in his bed
a lonely pillow
in her arms
a bundle of flowers
laying in the grass
sunrise
and the lake is lit
by swans
an old man passes by
carrying a chess board
along the way
a blackbird protests
the intrusion
the high tide of dew
recedes into hedge shadows
mockingbird
testing its wings
leaves tremble
as the train
slips by the tenements
on a stone wall
slugs follow paving lines
inquisitively
she watches the tom cat
with one hand on her hip
while the kids
play stick ball in the streets
this summer evening
the wasps' nest
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Haiku exercise for beginners
The haiku is about one moment, an instant in life captured. Where the poem is a painting, the haiku is a photograph showing the single comparison or eccentricity that makes nature so wonderful.
The advantage the haijin has over the photographer is that he is not restricted to showing, but can also let the reader hear and feel the image. Some haiku make comparisons from different times of the day or year, combining this into a single image. Where the photographer has a myriad of colour to work with the haiku poet can draw from a palette of, at the last count 450,000 words.
The strict form of the haiku may cause some people to baulk at them.
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