Showing posts with label warmth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label warmth. Show all posts

Sunday, February 17, 2008

first azaleas


first azaleas—
how effortlessly hours pass
unnoticed


DW Bender
February 17, 2008

first azaleas—
yet I have wasted a day
viewing photographs!


DW Bender
February 17, 2008

and older spring haiku:

returning warmth—
so close I can only hear
your unspoken words


DW Bender
from From the Trees, haibun

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Love Haiku (for my first love)


that boy I once loved
is the man I still love...
warmth of the far sun


DW Bender
Haiku, February 12, 2008

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How to Haiku: In 2001, I wrote a lesson-method article for World Haiku Review. Haiku Sketchbook offers beginners in haiku a way which I, myself, use to learn how to haiku from the masters. For this, I recommend studying only Japanese haijin at first. Why? Most of us, in beginner's ignorance are not writing haiku (or tanka, senryu, and haibun) at all. If you wish to learn to write haiku, to percieve the spirit of haiku, please do such a "sketchbook" study each day.