No, I have no intention of joining the Poem A Day challenge but I just thought I'd share with you a haiku because I don't think I have posted it anywhere in the webs before. Well, I did submit it on-line to a haiku contest in Japan (Kusamakura) in 2005 when I was a complete novice in the art of haiku. And, imagine my surprise when in the late autumn that year I received a letter from Japan notifying me that my haiku had won second prize (as one of the 8 selected) in the contest, thus earning a certificate and 5000 yen (I still keep the banknote).
Here it is:
ripening wheat
through fast moving wipers
a rainbow
The imagery is a reflection of what I actually experienced one late afternoon driving home from a tournament of boules. I think I would have written the haiku differently today but it likely wouldn't impress the Japanese judges. But who knows?
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7 comments:
Congratulations. I'm proud of you :)
Clapping!
And how much money is 5000 yen?
thank you both.
that should be around 50 bucks
I like it and I hate haiku in general.
I love it and I love haiku.
That's very good.
Haiku teaches how to make a long poem short and a long story short. lol
Congrats. :)
Congratulations. I like that haiku very much.
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