Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Spliced In Day 19



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 19

...When a haijin (a writer of haiku) writes a haiku about something wabi sabi she will often attempt to capture both its transient beauty AND the abiding qualities within the beauty, ...


Read the essay Wabi Sabi in Haiku by Richard R. Powell

4 comments:

Devika Jyothi said...

Very nice, beautiful...wabi-sabi haiku is something i like to study more...as always thanks for the essay Gillena :)

wishes,
devika

Magyar said...

images fade more
with each with each step taken
away from a puddles lore
as sun shine's awaken
this child of yore

Lorraine said...

It all seems so beautiful, so magically organized ...and fabulous and I have no idea how to do it

Gillena Cox said...

Devika, Lorraine, Doug thanks for dropping in; Doug i realize the featured haiku sparked enough interest that you took a few steps forward with a verse of your own; following in your footsteps :)

rays of hope
the rainbow dips behind
a mountain peak

much love...