Have you heard of Haiku?

[I am Shayne]

Hello Bring4thers!

There is a short form of poetry created by the Japanese, called Haiku. A traditional form of it goes as so:

Old Pond
A frog jumps in
-the sound of water

By Matsuo Basho


They take the reader to one moment in their imagination.
In 3 lines or less, they relay an occurrence or relation between entities: animals, weather, season, place, items, structure, etc. very simply.

I invite anyone to post haikus they have written and / or ones they like.


Here are some that I enjoy:

A fallen flower
returning to the branch?
   It was a butterfly

          The snow of yesterday
             that fell like cherry blossoms
           is water once again

no escaping it
I must step on fallen leaves
  to take this path



Here are some I've written:


Trickling from dark soil,
a creek emerges
beneath silent Oaks


           Cold silent night.
            Where are they?
                A leaf drops


The darkest tempest
 overseen by a billion stars
-the sight of lightning


              Brisk morning by foot
                empty handed samurai
                 longs for nothing more