| Haiku Mp3, Haiku Music Lyrics
| |
Haiku biography, Haiku discography
Haiku is one of the most important form of traditional Japanese poetry.Since early days, there has been confusion between the three
related terms Haiku, Hokku and Haikai.The term hokku literally
means "starting verse", and was the first starting link of a much longer chain
of verses known as haika.Because the hokku set the tone for the
rest of the poetic chain, it enjoyed a privileged position in haikai poetry,
and it was not uncommon for a poet to compose a hokku by itself without
following up with the rest of the chain.Largely through the efforts of Masaoka Shiki, this independence was formally
established in the 1890s through the creation of the term haiku.Strictly speaking, then, the history of haiku begins only in the last years of
the 19th century.Basho, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa are properly referred
to as hokku and must be placed in the perspective of the history of haikai
even though they are now generally read as independent haiku.In HAIKU for PEOPLE,
both terms will be treated equally!The distinction between hokku and haiku
can be handled by using the terms Classical Haiku and Modern Haiku.The history of the modern haiku dates from Masaoka Shiki's reform, begun in 1892, which established haiku as a new independent poetic form.Shiki's reform
did not change two traditional elements of haiku: the division of 17 syllables into three groups of 5, 7, and 5 syllables and the inclusion of a seasonal theme.Kawahigashi Hekigoto carried Shiki's reform further with two proposals:
Haiku would be truer to reality if there were no center of interest in it.How to write Haiku
In japanese, the rules for how to write Haiku are clear, and will not be discussed
here.The cutting divides the Haiku into two parts, with a certain imaginative distance
between the two sections, but the two sections must remain, to a degree, independent
of each other.Both sections must enrich the understanding of the other.Each Haiku must contain a kigo, a season word, which indicate in which
season the Haiku is set.For example, cherry blossoms indicate spring, snow indicate
winter, and mosquitoes indicate summer, but the season word isn't always that
obvious.These are the difficulties, and the pleasure of Haiku."The Nose", "The Handkerchief", "Hell
Screen ", "Flatcar" and "Kappa".He didn't start writing Haiku before 1919, under the pseudonym Gaki.The name Basho (banana tree) is a sobriquet he adopted around 1681
after moving into a hut with a banana tree alongside.At the time of his death, Basho had more than 2000 students.Enough to bend the leaves
Of the jonquil low.No sign can foretell
How soon it must die.Along this way but I,
This autumn evening.Won't you come and see
loneliness?Dead tree in living room.The SPAM haiku archive
AHA!Yasuda (The JAPANESE HAIKU: 1957).Henderson (An introduction to HAIKU: 1958).Buchanan (One hundred Famous HAIKU: 1973).Feel free to use anything from this page as long as you make references and links to HAIKU for PEOPLE.Haiku is a
poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture.Haiku
combines form, content, and language in a
meaningful, yet compact form.Haiku poets, which you will soon
be, write about everyday things.Many themes include nature,
feelings, or experiences.Usually they use simple words and grammar.The most common form for Haiku is three short lines.ONLY 17 syllables over just three (3) lines of poetry!Check out
some Haiku at Haiku Salon (see Lesson 2 for the link).Have your teacher
show you how to copy and paste this into your word processing
program by toggling between the Internet and your word processing
program.Now print out a copy of one, or both of the Haiku's
above and mark the syllables with your pencil.That sport will be your theme.Decide:
1) For what purpose will you write?What mood do you
want to convey?Does it really paint a clear picture?Share
your Haiku with someone else.Remember, the BEST writers are
REWRITERS!Fill in the
seven syllable line.Fill in the
two five syllable lines.Type and choose a font that adds to the look of your
Haiku.Finish by illustrating your poem.Recent Comments
One Desktop to Rule Them All: A Proposal for Revisions to Tracker (12)Ugly (unauthorised?Latest Activity
Anthy Ported to Haiku, Binary Available on Bebits
Premonitions of a rising sun
GSoc Swap File Project
Google Summer of Code Project : Writing a CIFS client
Google Summer of Code: Zeroconf!This makes dropping from Pe working for ex, as ...Sorry but I still need to test Terminal in BeOS to debug it...Latest Documents
Haiku Network Stack Architecture
Welcome to Kernel Debugging Land...OpenJDK 7 Environment Setup for BeOS R5.Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku aims to provide users of all levels with a personal computing experience that is simple yet powerful, and free of any unnecessary complexities.Teldar Corporation has open sourced their BeServed network file sharing solution for BeOS and donated the code to Haiku.We are now pleased to announce that the donated code has been merged into the Haiku repository, and is available here.Kevin Musick of Teldar Corporation had these words for us: "I am pleased to donate BeServed in its entirety to the Haiku project.However, I am encouraged to see Haiku's progress and the ongoing commitment of the community.While I no longer have the bandwidth to participate in the project, I hope that BeServed will be useful in some small way.After a quite intensive and challenging review and selection process, we are pleased to announce that Haiku has been assigned five (5) student slots for the Google Summer of Code 2008.This year, Google accepted many more mentor organizations than ever before, which made the allotment of students slots a lot more competitive.We also received applications of very high quality, which is definitely a blessing, but also made the Haiku mentor's task of narrowing down to a final selection much tougher.Haiku during the GSoC 2008 program.Scott at the Haiku boothI spent this past weekend in San Francisco in order to attend the LugRadio Live USA 2008 event.Haiku booth to represent the project at this the first LugRadio Live event to be held in the US.This event was a bit of a mystery to me, in the sense that I did not know what to expect.So late last year, I added Google Analytics (GA) to the Haiku website.So here is a brief activity overview for the Haiku websites for the January thru March of 2008 period.With the help of a generous donator, Haiku, Inc.Google for a major focus shift that will allow for wide distribution of Haiku R1 to OEMs.Distribution contracts have been signed with major mobile phone makers for an unprecedented availability of Phone and Handheld Integrated System Haiku (PHISH).This is the second installment of the Haiku alpha 1 status updates.In this issue I will discuss the progress on including the developer tools in Haiku.At the end of the page you will find the enhanced milestone statistics.Ltd, has just announced on the Haiku mailing list the release of the latest version (5.ASP video decoder and encoder for the BeOS R5 platform, including
an experimental 3ivx decoder for Haiku.Available on the 3ivx website, this release includes many bug fixes, frame accurate seeking, experimental support for mp4 files and aac audio, and a Haiku version of the 3ivx decoder.This is an exciting development, and hopefully just the beginning of a bright future for Haiku in the area of media format support.Haiku and the Haiku logo are trademarks of Haiku Inc.Fine Cabinet maker who titles
his pieces with haiku.In order to
make a choice, you have to understand the reasons and
methods.So let me make the disclaimer that in
discussing these rules I am only discussing some of the
current disciplines I am following in my own haiku writing
and which are currently shared by a majority of writers.First and foremost, and certainly the guideline which I
have consciously or unconsciously followed the longest, is
the one that a haiku must be divided into two parts.Even without punctuation the reader can hear and feel the
break between the fragment (rain gusts) and the phrase (the
electricity goes on and off).Cover up the preposition and the article in the fragment and
see if the ku holds together.If you feel the article and preposition are needed,
then by all means, use them.In the 'roasted chicken' ku I debated about leaving
the articles out, but decided I felt the ku needed the
'grease to the wheels of understanding' of the articles.But
if you are seeking to shorten the ku, look first to the
fragment as you cross out unneeded words.However, one cannot follow the same 'rule' in writing the
phrase portion of the ku.Sometimes critics make the comment
in a workshop that a haiku is 'choppy'.Notice the
difference between:
low winter sun
raspberry
leaves
red and green
If to this 'grocery list ku' we add a preposition and an
article we get:
low winter sun
in the raspberry
leaves
red and greenIt pays to be aware of which two lines you wish to make
into the phrase.It helps to read the two lines of a ku which
are to become your phrase out loud to see how they sound in
your mouth and ears.If I had chosen to make the first
line the fragment I would write the ku as:
low winter
sun
raspberry leaves glow
red and greenAdding a verb gives the proper grammatical flow between
lines two and three.One other variation on this subject is the haiku in which
the break occurs in the middle of the second line.Occasionally one will find an English haiku
written in this manner.If the comment above sounds too critical of the use of
the break in the middle of the second line, let me add that
this method becomes very interesting if one is working with
parallels.Parallels were learned by the Japanese from the Chinese and
often used successfully in haiku and tanka.Those persons using punctuation in their ku, will often
find themselves making a dash after the fragment and
hopefully nothing, not even a comma in the middle of the
phrase, even if there is a breath of the possibility of one.Or the author forms places where the
reader can decide where to make the break and thus, give the
haiku additional meaning.From this philosophy, I view haiku
with punctuation as haiku which perhaps fail to fit this
basic form.If the author has a well developed feeling for fragment and
phrase, the grammar will expose which is which.Occasionally a haiku is written that is so full of
possible divisions into what is the fragment or the phrase
that writing it in one line is the only way that offers the
reader the complete freedom to find the breaks.By carefully reading a magazine like Frogpond,
you can see which 'rules' the editor is accepting by the
haiku printed.That does not mean 'this' is the only way to
write a haiku.You need to make the decision: are those a rules, goals
or guidelines some I want for myself?This thought is much
more gentle to the Universe than saying some haiku are good
and others are bad.There is, thank goodness, no one way to write a haiku.Though the literature has haiku which we admire and even
model our own works on, there is no one style or technique
which is absolutely the best.Haiku is too large for that.Haiku has, in its short history been explored and expanded by
writers so that now we have a fairly wide range of styles,
techniques and methods to investigate.Shiki's shasei), double entendre, close linkage, leap linkage,
pure objectivism, and more, rather than the mysterious idea
that if one has a true haiku moment the resulting ku will be
an excellent haiku.The experience is
necessary and valid (and probably the best part of the haiku
path), but writing is writing is skill and a craft to be
learned.But once you learn them you will
understand why some haiku 'work' for you and others do not.It also prepares you to instinctively use the best technique
for each of your haiku experiences.Perhaps, nothing is absolute in haiku.There needs to be a syntactical break
dividing the ku into two parts.If you feel the article and preposition are needed,
then by all means, use them.However, one cannot follow the same 'rule' in writing the
phrase portion of the ku.Sometimes critics make the comment
in a workshop that a haiku is 'choppy'.It pays to be aware of which two lines you wish to make
into the phrase.One other variation on this subject is the haiku in which
the break occurs in the middle of the second line.Basho's haikai taken out of
context from a renga.Occasionally one will find an English haiku
written in this manner.Parallels were learned by the Japanese from the Chinese and
often used successfully in haiku and tanka.Some writers, unable, or unwilling to understand
the use of fragment and phrase will write the ku in one line.If the author has a well developed feeling for fragment and
phrase, the grammar will expose which is which.That does not mean 'this' is the only way to
write a haiku.You need to make the decision: are those a rules, goals
or guidelines some I want for myself?Universe than saying some haiku are good
and others are bad.There is, thank goodness, no one way to write a haiku.Haiku is too large for that.Techniques are methods of achieving a known goal in
writing.They are something to learn and then forget as Basho
has already told us.But once you learn them you will
understand why some haiku 'work' for you and others do not.It also prepares you to instinctively use the best technique
for each of your haiku experiences.Perhaps, nothing is absolute in haiku.Take Your Pick
Jane Reichhold
Haiku, which seem so light, free and spontaneous, are
built on discipline.If you've a desire to write haiku, you
are manifesting a desire for a few more rules in your life.And rules aren't bad as long as they are your rules for your
work.Seventeen syllables written in three lines.Write what can be said in one breath.Use a season word (kigo) or seasonal reference.Use a caesura at the end of either the first or second
line, but not at both.Have two images that are only in contrast when
illuminated by the third image.Eliminating all the possible uses of gerunds (ing
endings on wording).Do you use too many
the's?Study the order in which the images are presented.Just write about ordinary things in an ordinary way
using ordinary language.Study Zen and let your haiku express the wordless way
of making images.Study any religion or philosophy and let this echo in
the background of your haiku.Invent lyrical expressions for the image.Attempt to have levels of meaning in the haiku.Use images that evoke a mysterious aloneness.Write of the impossible in an ordinary way.Telling it as it is in the real world around us.Mixing humans and nature in a haiku by relating a
human feeling to an aspect of nature.Avoid all reference to yourself in the haiku.Refer to yourself obliquely as the poet, this old
man, or with a personal pronoun.Capitalize the first word only.All words in lower case.All words in upper case.Rhyme last words in the first and third lines.Use rhymes in other places within the haiku.Use of words' sounds to echo feeling.Always end the haiku with a noun.Use any inspiration as starting point to develop and
write haiku.These are known as desk haiku.Avoid too many (or all) verbs.Don't use more than one modifier per noun.This use
should be limited to the absolute sense of the haiku.Share your haiku by adding one at the close of your
letters.Write down every haiku that comes to you.Should there be a better term for poetry written in
English that is the result of admiration and emulation of
haiku?What about those where a break happens at the end of
each line?Do you feel haiku need punctuation?If so, where and how
much?While reading haiku can you see a link between the
images in each one?Do days go by when you are too busy to write haiku until
a pressing deadline forces you to look!How often have you thought of a good haiku and neglected
to write it down?Do you miss the time you are not open, searching for the
crack in the reality of this world where you can slip in to
find haiku?What activities bring you into a state of awareness
where haiku occur?Would you like to spend more of your day in that
consciousness?What can be changed to accomplish this?Moore was the contest
judge.The first place winner has declined to have her haiku
printed in this article.I've thoroughly enjoyed judging the Charles B.North
Carolina Haiku Society and Haiku Society of America are in
great demand to continue fostering the development of
aspiring haiku writers.Nonetheless, here are the selections
from the contest, along with comments:
the rhythmof her old brown handsweaving thin
wet reedsElizabeth St Jacques
At first reading this haiku may seem rather simple, but
it shows a keen awareness.Perhaps she's weaving the
reeds in a chair frame or bottom to make a chair.The measure of the lines give the
rhythmical effect of the old woman's brown hands as they
weave.And not to be overlooked here is the fact that
the reeds are as useful as the old brown hands.Road from Banburya man spilled from his crushed
cardead eyes full of rainJane K.Lambert
The somewhat eerie aspect of rain in dead eyes creates a
somber mood.Also, one can see that nature (the rain)
continues even though humanity becomes nonexistence in this
particular scene.The useless or inactive car tends to keep with the
lifelessness of the dead man, as the rain evokes dreariness
on an autumn day.Autumn symbolizes aging or a nearing of
death, which helps to strengthen the element of mystery in
this haiku.This man's eyes are open to the world, though he
can't see anything.Sherry
The image that comes to mind is a young lady leaving an
abortion clinic, her head held down with a feeling of guilt.Imagine the perplexed look on her face.Once can see the contrast of a dead bee in the fetal
position.Dead suggests no activity of lifelessness, whereas
fetal position hints at the forming of a living thing or
something that already has some form of life.Also, one can
see the sadness of the persona in this haiku.However, the poet's handling of
simplicity makes this haiku quite deceptive.James Chessing
Boxcar doors aren't a usual subject in haiku, but the
poet has used them in a fresh way.The boxcar is probably
empty of its freight.Yet it is full of sunlight and a thick
cloud of gnats swarming in the openness.The speaker seems surprised by this
moment, allowing his senses to tune in to what's happening.This quaint old poet was born in a farmhouse in
the ancient village of Kashiwabara in 1763.His full
name was Kobayashi Tataro, which he used until he started
writing serious poetry.Tradition records that at about the age
of six years his loneliness was reflected in his poetry
Ware to kite asobeya oya no nai suzume which
translates to:
Come over with meand together let's playOh,
motherless sparrow.Living this somewhat solitary life, he spent time with
various members of his family until he was thirteen years of
age, at which time his father decided to kick him out into
the world, and he walked to old Yedo, which is now Tokyo.Issa
returned to his hometown when he was about 38 years old.From
that time on he travelled back and forth between his hometown
and Yedo and tried to make himself acceptable to his family.His sadness at this rejection is reflected in this poem:
Furusato ya yoru mo sawaru mo bara no hana.My native villageon approach and to the
toucha bramble rose.However, all of these children
died.Issa married a third wife,
having lost all of his previous wives and their children.Hotarubi
mo amaseba iyahaya kore wa haya.From infant bathtubto burial tub changingThis
utter nonsense!So haiku was a game!Issa's grave with a
large and a small stone on it.At that time Japan was filled with books written in
praise of this wonderful old man.Issa was known for his sympathetic attitude towards the
less fortunate ones around him, including the wildlife in his
environment.He wrote this little
poem of encouragement to that creature: Yase gaeru makeru
na Issa koko ni ari.You skinny frog, youdon't be beaten, don't give
up!One cool night in August, Issa was turning over in bed
when he observed a cricket trying to get under the blankets
to get warm.That prompted him to write this poem: Nekaeri
wo suru zo waki yori kirigirisu.Issa wrote many poems about happenings during
this spectacle.Great bulging lanternswith crests on them of open
plumcome out of the mist.One of the humorous poems that Issa wrote while observing
the birds of the neighborhood on the road, picking at the
horse droppings, is: Suzume no ko soko noke, soko noke
ouma ga toru.You baby sparrowget out of that, get out of
thatMilord's horse would pass.In his wanderings, Issa saw many scenes of rural Japan,
one about which he wrote a poem.From time to time with feetsprawled out in
noonday sleepI pull the scarecrow string.While traveling in the winter, he often thought of the
warmer southern climates, no doubt wishing he was there
instead of the northern territories.He mentions that in this
verse.Shogatsu ya ume no kawari ni ofubuki.In the
winter they were almost buried beneath the thick, heavy
snows.From the lakespringing up into the skythe
clouded peaks.Kurohime, there is another mountain called
Myoko, a very jagged peak which stands across the valley of
the Seki River.Being impressed with the masculinity of
Myoko, Issa wrote: Yama kake ya shiranai kao shite shigi
no tatsu.The mountain crumblesand with a look of
unconcernup rises a snipe.While this has a double entendre, we believe it refers to
a huge landslide leaving a bare spot on the mountain.Wait, don't
strike that fly!...Numbered among the triumvirate
greats, his name will never be forgotten in Japan, and most
likely will not be forgotten throughout the world.Our greatest
English language poets were the best masters of discovering
and using metaphor.Now in haiku, the experts say we must cast aside this
trusty tool.Yes,
the black crow is the harbinger of death, the time of rest in
nature and in life.What makes the haiku fascinating to us is that all above,
and surely much more, can be contained by juxtaposing bare
branch, a crow settling and autumn dusk.Instead of making a sound with its
voice, what if the frog leaps into the water of sound?Again the third image is the tie for
his metaphor of water for sound.My premise is that metaphor IS one of the valuable
components of haiku writing.What is different though, is the
way the metaphor is written into the haiku.Basho's haiku he does use these
expressions) but the elements of the metaphor are simply set
down in their clearest, most elementary expression, usually
in juxtaposition tied together by a verb or third image.Also, in haiku, the range of the metaphor is limited
somewhat by reality.Towering storm waves crashing on a beach
do call to mind lions raging toward the shore.Part of the
delight and popularity of haiku is the learning of new, and
for Western writers, unusual methods of stating the metaphors
that come with our inspiration.The poet is the journalist for the spirit world.Yet our vocabulary for this illusive realm is as vague and
undefined as the average person's ventures into it are.Basho
the great poet he was.Basho's death I suspect this decline
was because haiku was denied its right to be a vehicle for
poetry and poetical vision.Japanese, who allow themselves to write as poets drawing
on the devices of poetry and who are able to transfer ALL the
previous poetic techniques into new forms inspired by the
visions of poets of many cultures.At that moment I realized a
similarity between fish and haiku.Nowadays, if Mom doesn't ever serve fish for dinner at
least the kids get a taste of haiku in grade school.Even with the knowledge of the exotic,
most poets remain solidly with the meat and potatoes of
English literature.Having acquired a taste for fish, having learned how to
cook and serve them, one is better able to read and
appreciate the short, succinct form of haiku.Like fishing,
haiku writing can be done with minimal equipment.Like fishing, to catch haiku you have to go where they
are.Unlike fish, haiku are everywhere.It does help to know which
fish are edible and not.As the fisherman said, the haiku are not ours, but come
through us.Do we gut them right away, getting rid of the extra ands
and me's and prepositions?Do we put them immediately on ice
by writing them down on something that won't go through the
laundry or end up in the wastepaper basket?It is also up to
us whether we eat all the fish ourselves or if we clean them
up, label them, and send them off to a magazine to share with
others.If we catch a really special one, we can enter it in
the country fair or haiku contest.Some people simply flour and fry their fish, believing
that this one way is the only way to express a haiku moment.It
usually comes down to the fact that we become attached to one
way of fixing our catch and, unless we've been inspired by
the taste of other's, tend to keep serving them up in the
same way which later is hailed as one's individual voice.For the dedicated fisherperson (a lot of women write
haiku, too) there are several magazines to which we can
subscribe.Reading of the success of others is often
just the right incentive to give us courage to get out there
to try out a new lure or seek out a new fishing hole.Out on the public pier, the old guys kindly put up with
the youngsters who are constantly asking why they use that
weight line or why they whip their rod like than when that is
hardly what they are thinking about anymore.They've learned
to smile gently when beginners get tangled up their lines
remembering their enthusiasm not so long ago.Once we've
caught all the fish our friends and family can enjoy and
still we are packing the notebook, there comes the time to
decide whether to go commercial with what had started out to
be fun hobby.This step demands decisions about how much can
I afford to invest this venture, will I make a living at it?Or do I do it
because I love it?And, unless the name
is Ginsberg or Snyder, it will probably remain this way.However, in this way you meet a lot of interesting
people, many who become great friends, and what a thrill it
is when the local restaurant, with a blare of trumpets,
serves your fish on their menu.Fortunately for haiku writers, their catch doesn't get
smelly if it gets mislaid in the trunk of the car and taking
a live fish off a hook is certainly different from scratching
words on paper but the thrill is very similar.Books and notebooks are a pleasant way to savor the
thrill of the moment of pulling in the big one, which not all
that different from hanging the stuffed trophy fish over the
fireplace in the den.Jane Reichhold 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992,
1993, 1994, 1995, 2000.AHA Book list for more books on haiku.Haiku is an easy project for novice knitters.Knit in garter st for 3 (3.Cast on gauge_____ x 1 sts at neck edge.Switch back to garter st for 2 (3) inches.Sew sleeves to body with seam at bottom of armhole.Sew on buttons opposite buttonholes.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A great way to fulfill local PD needs.Contact HAIKU Learning Systems, Inc.Internet
School Library Media
Center haiku page.You can search this site, use an
index or sitemap.Includes biography and examples of the work of ten
prominent
haikuists from Basho to Koi.Teaching Haiku
Poetry: Links, Resources, Ideas
By grade level; by Michael P.Haiku for People
The old masters; new haiku poems; what is haiku?Children's Haiku Garden
Illustrated haiku written by children in Japan, America and
other
places.Haiku written by fifth graders.Haiku
Haiku written by fourth graders.Articles from ERIC on using Haiku in the curriculum.Haiku written and illustrated by children
from around the
world.Your
children can submit their writings.Haiku by
Japanese artists Shiki Masaoka and Kametaro
Yagi.Also
seasonal haiku by Kim.Japanese
Literature
Introduction to folktales and haiku.Journey to Japan Through Poetry
By Patrice M.Haiku is an honored form of poetry of Japanese origin.Its unrhymed
three lines contain usually 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively.Yet even
within these strict constraints, haiku poets write with subtlety and
depth.Random word haiku borrows the verse form of haiku, but uses words
chosen at random to fit the syllable structure.Random word haiku elicits meaning
from our own knowledge and connections between concepts.The fact that
English allows nouns to be used as adjectives helps, too.In particular, haikuworld
is recommended.They were selected out of 5.Misfile
intromit,
depict
lyonnaise
tolyl,
inapt
vernation.Reload
this page for more haiku.
|
| |
|
 |
|
