Sunday, July 10, 2011

Spliced In Day 10



During the month of July There will be featured here at Lunch Break haiku related essays; original copyright remains with the websites and to their respective writers.

Spliced In - Day 10


Around the old monk
The orphan children gather.
O Holy Night!


...Takeda, who studied for the priesthood in Boston and New York, began writing haiku 40 years ago, when he was an English teacher in a suburban Tokyo high school. Only in the last decade has he seriously begun to explore the Christian possibilities of the form. "I realized," he recalls...


Read Worship: Hymns in Haiku

4 comments:

Devika Jyothi said...

Again nice...religious consciousness in haiku, nice...and thanks for the introduction :)

i have come across Takeda, i guess,

wishes,
devika

Gillena Cox said...

Have a nice Sunday; glad you could drop in

much love...

Lorraine said...

it's lovely, there's always that moment you know that sense that it will all come together, love your posts always, whether from you or a fellow-poet it always enriches

Gillena Cox said...

glad you stopped by Lorraine


much love...