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    ARTS: Summer Haiku

    Dear all

    Yesterday I attended a one day Zen haiku workshop with Upaya Zen Center. The teachers were Roshi Joan Halifax, Natalie Goldberg (the author of Writing Down the Bones and recent haiku pilgrimage Three Simple Lines), Clark Strand (a haiku poet and former monk at New York Zen Center) and Kaz Tanahashi.

    Upaya hosts annual haiku retreats and I have listened to them for some time so it was wonderful to be able to attend online this time around.

    Clark and Natalie have different approaches to haiku, with Clark having a strict adherence to the 5-7-5 form, which is rarely used in English Language Haiku now, and Natalie being more free form. Kaz, as you would imagine, knows a lot about traditional Japanese haiku.

    Anyway, I can recommend listening to the podcasts of this when they come out, and you might get to hear me ask a question and have one of my haiku read.

    These were a number of works I submitted for the workshop and wrote during in response to some season word (kigo) prompts and suggested forms. It is amazing what being in the company of 400 (!) other writers can do!

    Toro Nagashi (floating lanterns)
    the souls of our ancestors
    return to the lake

    running the cross breeze
    between clumps of old hawthorn
    iron age hill fort

    crayfish linguine
    a shade tree spreads her branches
    into the river

    thorn bramble woodland
    my daughter sings a fairy
    out of moss and sticks

    Tuscan hills
    I gently grill
    half a zucchini

    the back then front
    of a bee
    zucchini flower

    falling in love
    with the evening light
    sweet chestnut flowers

    my hands
    just strong enough for a cup
    chamomile tea

    my eyelids
    lose their battle with sleep
    morning zazen



    Gassho
    Kokuu
    -sattoday/lah-
    Last edited by Jundo; 08-10-2021 at 01:01 PM.

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    These are wonderful, Kokuu. What a great experience.
    Gassho,
    Naiko
    st

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    Thank you, Naiko. It was really love to be a part of!

    Gassho
    Kokuu
    -sattoday/lah-

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    Thank you Kokuu for sharing both your experience and your haiku. The above are just lovely.

    Gassho,
    Seikan

    -stlah-
    聖簡 Seikan (Sacred Simplicity)

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    These are lovely, Kokuu.

    Thank you

    Gassho
    Life itself is the only teacher.
    一 Joko Beck


    STLah
    安知 Anchi

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    Thank you for these. Wonderful.

    Gassho.

    (st)


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    東西 - Tōsei - East West
    there is only what is, and it is all miraculous

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