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 3
...The most important characteristic of haiku is how it conveys, through implication and suggestion, a moment of keen perception and perhaps insight into nature or human nature. Haiku does not state this insight, however, but implies it. In the last hundred years—in Japanese and English-language haiku—implication has been achieved most successfully through the use of objective imagery...
spring breeze—
the pull of her hand
as we near the pet store
--Michael Dylan Welch, Sammamish, Washington
Read the essay Becoming a Haiku Poet
3 comments:
beuautiful,words rythm when I'm here :)
Nice series again, Gillena :)
wishes,
devika
Thanks for your appreciation, Lorraine and Devika
much love...
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