early morning sunlight,
with a smile...
all is as it should be...
Gassho
Seiryu
early morning sunlight,
with a smile...
all is as it should be...
Gassho
Seiryu
early sun rising
birds searching for breakfast
waves just keep rolling
Gassho, Zak
Hi Myoken, just a modest contribution to your haiku:
an old beer bottle
left in the woods
still partying
Everybody writes at dawn...Thank you Zak and Seiryu.
gassho
Taigu
in a world
of suffering
thrush music
80th birthday
he poses
for the x-ray
the cherry blossoms arrive without a god
In and out
it all falls apart
I run away from the sound of the bell
Gassho
Seiryu
dailyhaiku.org
rejected my submission
AGAIN
:cry:
bleak wind
I'd know her voice
anywhere
cleaning her house
after the funeral
mother's dust
autumn wind
my receding hairline
full moon
in the window
of the Krispy Kreme
New Age Church
the plastic flowers
gassho
Greg
Agh!Originally Posted by Nindo
Chin up. Modern Haiku shot me down three times before I got in.
Gassho
Jennifer
Hi guys,
Sweet powdered geisha
poses for the camera
birds don't care
Don't belong to any haiku circle, don't do haiku competition, don't even call myself a poet, and have no intention of being praised by the generations to come and I call my haiku stuff:junk.
So we are all part of the same universal non haiku circle, dead haiku poets circle...
Nice to meet you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!
gassho
Taigu
Did Ryokan have this intention? Who knows?Originally Posted by Taigu
Maybe your words will end in an old box in someone's attic. Maybe it will end in a library and people will tell silly stuff about the "the soul" of the artists and his "real goals"... as we can see with some great French poets.
Don't really matters,
:wink:Originally Posted by Taigu
deep gassho,
Jinyu
In America, it truly does not matter if you write haiku or not. If you publish, or not. If anyone praises your work today and forgets you tomorrow. Poetry is already marginalized and the haiku world is truly a ghetto within. You go into it knowing that . . . but it is wonderful to participate and meet others from all over who do the same silly thing.Originally Posted by Taigu
And to that end, here's to the circle!
Gassho
Jennifer
After worrying about this and that
Gratefully returning to doing now
Watching wonderful waves
Eating bagel
Now can I help you?
Sitting in vast emptiness
With nothing to do
Yet everything is doing
What is this?
Birds singing
Dog pacing
Motor humming
gnarled, without protest,
from Tasman's insistent gales,
my old weeping-tree
heart soul ephemeral gossamerOriginally Posted by Jennifer G P
oh for the love of god stay .. away ..
from gossamer
:lol: couldn't resist
The only part of this that confused me was the part about avoiding words like plastic, telephone, and can. Can you explain that? Is it because they are modern words?Originally Posted by Taigu
Chet
Hi Chet,
In the old school of haiku, rhythm, seasonal element, and all these old fashioned rules apply.
In modern Haiku, feel free, as you wish...In Japan, you have both schools. Many people think that Santoka's haiku are not haiku...
I use modern words like plastic, tarmac, fumes, can etc. because I write about what I witness and see around.
gassho
Taigu
As did the old haiku masters.Originally Posted by Taigu
Gassho!
Chet
conceived in snow clouds
foetused on Himalayas
rivers chill my feet
What a beautiful and sublime thread. I am very grateful for it.
Sound of rain
lonely man in thought
coffee
In Spanish:
El sonido de la lluvia
hombre solitario pensando
café
I wish to avoid self-promotion, but I actually wrote a humorous book of haiku on "geeky" topics titled Fanboy Haiku
pm me if you want more info
Hi Josh,Originally Posted by joshbrown
Found and downloaded Fanboy Haiku on Kindle. Given the work you obviously put into it(240 Haiku) the price was a steal! I'll definitely have fun reading more!
Gassho,
John
Josh Brown Fanboy book
Downloaded if from Kindle
Only one dollar!
Stop telling me to
Chill out! I'm usually right,
So listen to me!
cute little brown book,
square little old book,
If you could talk
as well as you smell
what a tale you could tell
not really a haiku :?
Hi Michael,Originally Posted by michaeljc
That's ok! If you write poetry which isn't haiku style we do have our other poetry forum as well. viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1344
Have fun!!
Gassho,
John
Mother Rata Tree
living her decaying death
where bush pigeons croon
sleepy
stayed up last night
awakening
boot-worn water-track
chandeliering camp-smoke
dog-eared sutras
Monsoon’s morning entrée -
stillness draping drowsy mountains
-crowing fowl
-children’s yakker
streams, place's faces
reoccurring images
places that I lost
after I hang up the phone
the last bite of bread
in a puddle of honey
autumn mist
a crow
adds its own silence
() josh
zen retreat
I check my posture
on the toilet
gassho
Greg
Criticisms, defense,
Transparency;
It's all good!
_/_
traveling
In mountains with clouded hats
cool misty face
gassho shogen
No haiku for weeks now
where have they gone?
what is happening?
Originally Posted by ghop
hahaha, well I was feeling nervous about going on my first retreat at the end of the month until I read your haiku, thank you!
If you don't mind me asking, where are you going for retreat Daisy?Originally Posted by Daisy
I am always on the hunt for others experiences with practicing at other zendos. Thanks!
Gassho
Dokan
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Whole
Not two
Holding two
Temple Bell
Crows cawing
mystical silence
Hello! I think it's helpful to share experiences, especially for first timers like me. I am going on a Mindfulness based retreat at Taraloka (http://www.taraloka.org.uk), a retreat in a women's Buddhist community in the Shropshire countryside in the UK. There is a nice write up on Taraloka on the good retreat guide website (http://www.thegoodretreatguide.com I think that is the correct link, it might just be http://www.goodretreatguide.com). I use mindfulness with some of my clients for work (I work in a hospital), it has a good clinical evidence base in addition to being common sense, down to earth good stuff... Anyway, I'm hoping to deepen my own practice to help me be able to reflect more fully and support my clients effectively.Originally Posted by Dokan
I would be interested in hearing more about your experiences too.
Grass frost, tiny lights.
Do the stars crunch if stepped on?
I'll try it tonight.
kitten pushes door-
old cat waits for opening
in patient calmness
that was my first Haiku written a year or so ago about my two cats, Ninja and Shuriken.
ah, it's obviously cold where you are too, Chessie!Originally Posted by chessie
I like the idea of star crunching!
Begging bowl beckons
Monks exchange Dharma for food
Behold; the crescent moon!
This is close to what I saw tonight:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/74867807@N00/558966408/
Gassho,
Ann
It's the day before spring break. I'm sitting in class awaiting student papers, which means I'm not doing anything (like always! I kid, I kid). I thought I would post a couple haiku. These are from my blog: http://www.stories-like-stories-you-know.blogspot.com/. I'm a writer, just one of several costumes.
My wife has been away for the last couple weeks:
headlights pass over walls.
even the dog
perks his ears for you.
Driving to work one morning:
stranded roadside
smoke billows from the engine.
starlings black against the sky.
Something else:
taking the trash out
to forget this zen.
dead dog on the wet road.
I enjoyed reading many of the poems in this thread. Many thanks,
Alan
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