Haiga, 2023 09 14

[sasha]

 
Wetmore Rd - Birch Hill WMA, Winchendon MA
 

 

[judih]

love this

[sasha]

thx judih - the memories of tramping suburban wilderness go waaaayy back.....

[stilltrucking]

Haiga
a new word for me
at this point in my time here in this best of all spatiotemporal worlds about us I recaptured my boyhood desire to learn

I don't' know jacks--t about haiku but even so I think your picture poem was very nice work

[sasha]

Thanks, Jack. I'm no expert or academic, but here's what I've learned by hanging around collectives populated by real artists who know their stuff...

Haiku: little word sketches that paint pictures with the fewest words possible. Classical haiku consists of 17 Japanese sound units in three lines of 5-7-5. No idea what constitutes a "sound unit", but anywhere from 10 to 15 English syllables contain 17 of them. I like 3-5-3 or 4-6-4 syllable structures, but anything goes.

Haiga: haiku accompanied by pictures, or vice-versa.

Senryu: haiku about human emotions or inner life, rather than the outer natural world

Tanka: A haiku followed by 2 more lines, often in the form of a question, & with the same number of sound units/syllables as the middle line of the 'ku.

Probably other forms, but you'll have to ask someone who really knows this stuff. I'm just an aging techie.

[sasha]

Oh, I forgot

Haibun - a collection of haiku separated by lines of narrative text