Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Pre-Haiku Poetry

I love Haiku's. Not those who borrow its form, but Japanese haiku's translated from the original.
It really is beautiful.



The ones here, are pre-haiku poetry, before Haiku evolved into what it is today. The point of Haiku is to describe an emotion, a moment. And there must be reference to nature and seasons, as a rule. You can see how that came to be from these pre-haiku's.

Warm breeze that I breathe
that drifts from yonder mountain
in whose shade you dwell
Has been sweetened, I believe,
by blowing through your hair.


And another,


Looking to the east
we saw the glow of morning
rising over fields
Then turning to look behind
the moon was just then setting.




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