Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Jeff Hanson & Ronald Baatz: Wednesday Haiku, Week 56

Tsuchiyama by Hiroshige




autumn rain… some things wash away
Jeff Hanson




Photo by Ponx





Wet yard
quiet as
drizzle
Ronald Baatz











half of it
is flitting snowflakes...
spring rain
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue




best,
Don



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7 comments:

  1. Rachael StanleyFebruary 22, 2012 at 5:11 PM

    The first one autumn rain.. has a philosophical feel to it.

    The second conveys a great sense of stillness. Rachael Stanley

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  2. TCFebruary 23, 2012 at 3:57 AM

    All I can say, Don, is

    drip

    drip

    drip...

    [tiny splash, heard only by a newborn snail, nosing about in the mud]

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  3. adityaFebruary 23, 2012 at 6:55 AM

    Some fine insights on the rain.



    woman bathing roadside buffaloes-
    we too
    get wet!

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  4. Issa's Untidy HutFebruary 23, 2012 at 6:58 AM

    Rachael -

    Thanks very much - yes, they are something of a match - Jeff's catches the richness of resonance that isn't - the essential core of haiku, I'd say.

    Ronald Baatz just is always amazing. The evocation of sound here is just beautiful because sound is somehow instantly tone (not that does resonate) - could this really be only 5 words long?

    Don

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  5. Issa's Untidy HutFebruary 23, 2012 at 7:07 AM

    Tom,

    Yes, there is such sound in all three of these, sound as tone, as I mentioned above.

    Now, of course, I'm curious about how snails hear.

    And 'here' it is ...

    Don

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  6. Charles GramlichFebruary 23, 2012 at 9:46 AM

    There's something so incredible about dew.

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  7. Ed BakerFebruary 23, 2012 at 3:14 PM

    speaking towards that dew drop:

    been re-into Dōgen's 'moon in a dewdrop'

    actually began with the poems near the end... & worked backwards..

    those Tanahashi / Whalen & the Tanahashi / Unger

    translations...

    &, anyboddhi know this Brian Unger ? I think I just might... name is familiar.

    great 'stuff' Life = Art/Poetry, eh ?

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