Poetry for the Inner Ear: Haiku of Five Lines
Poetry for the Inner Ear: Haiku of Five Lines : "Haiku of Five Lines Most of the haiku are written in three lines, but in the postmodern age we find several variants also:one-word haiku, o..." The significant thingfor a haiku poet to remember is not the number of lines he has chosen for his haiku.The most important thing for a haiku poet is to have passion for truth, beauty and spiritual power. Great haiku poets always create ‘haiku moment’ that with its delicate rainbow hues produces an extraordinary emotional hold on the readers. In the poetry of Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante and Shakespeare we find this ‘haiku moment’ though they didn’t write haiku. This is precisely the case with the following immortal lines uttered by Lear with Cordelia’s dead body in his arms in Shakespeare’s King Lear: Thou’it come no more Never, never, never, never, never! Moreover, it must be added that the use of 'kigo' (season word) should not be mandator...