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
Again nice...religious consciousness in haiku, nice...and thanks for the introduction :)
ReplyDeletei have come across Takeda, i guess,
wishes,
devika
Have a nice Sunday; glad you could drop in
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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
ReplyDeleteglad you stopped by Lorraine
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