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packets of chocolates
in a game of catch -
a pencil drops
© gillena cox 2015



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Carpe Diem Haiku Writing Techniques #17 Leap Linkage

...leaping
a fish opens a door
in the lake
© Jane Reichhold

As you all know Basho was basically a renga-master and due to his renga-writing skills, Basho was a master at making wild, wide leaps in the linking of the images of his poems.

swinging bridge
first one thinks of
meeting horses
© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)

Here the linkage leap is so wide that it may need a footnote of explanation for readers four centuries and Thousand of miles away to follow it. This is one of the problems of making an innovative or wide leap - how to get the reader's mind to track it over the abyss without getting lost. The important point in creating with this technique is that the writer is always totally aware of his or her truth.

Not an easy haiku writing technique I think, but worth to give it a try. I don't know if I can write a haiku with this "leap linkage", but I have given it a try.

sky diver
flies down to earth
like Icarus
© Chèvrefeuille
[the above excerpt from carpe diem]

packets of chocolates
in a game of catch -
a pencil drops
© gillena cox 2015