Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Wednesday Haiku - Week Six: Susan Diridoni






Wednesday Haiku, Week #6






this brimming reddened west your heart today
Susan Diridoni









traveling geese--
the human heart, too
soars
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue










best,
Don




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4 comments:

  1. WrickMarch 9, 2011 at 10:41 AM

    aloha Susan. i've sat with your haiku for a week (i see that as a good thing because it stayed with me). it was elusive in my initial readings of it. elusive yet it wouldnt quite let go of me or i of it. what i find as i read it now, is that i feel the sense in it as much as follow the words (both but feeling it works well for me through the visualization of it, which the words now trigger). i like that. it's familiar, yet each time i read it, it's new too - just like the brimming red west, every day, new. cool on that. aloha.

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  2. Issa's Untidy HutMarch 10, 2011 at 7:07 AM

    Thanks for reading, Wrick ..

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  3. ToniApril 23, 2011 at 5:36 PM

    I thought you might enjoy a post I wrote about the haiku of Issa for Psychology Today: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/turning-straw-gold/201104/issa-my-life-through-the-pen-haiku-master

    Warmly,
    Toni

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  4. Issa's Untidy HutApril 24, 2011 at 10:26 AM

    Toni:

    Thank you very much for sharing your wonder full article. I've taught a few introduction to haiku sessions for lifelong learners and always begin with a dozen haiku by Issa.

    4 of them were among the ones you mentioned. A beautiful "coincidence."

    I will be passing your link on to other haiku lovers via the blog. I appreciate your sending it and I do hope the your progress up Mt. Fuji continues apace.

    best,
    Don @ Lilliput Review / Issa's Untidy Hut

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