The magic of the haiku lies into its weight and depth. Wonderful petite expression that activate rethinking a perspective. It is, as if, like a small cane of soft drink in the summer noon. Haiku poems sprout joy on our feeling, we become delighted. Within a tiny circumference, haiku delivers a wide range of wonderful messages. It is within the Poems for Life, as blooming orchid extending lovely aroma. Reading haiku is synonymous to a voyage to dream.
Haiku is the cutest form of short poem full of thoughts. Within three lines lots are expressed about the perspective with an idea. In fact, haiku is the magical composition of ideas and thoughts in a sophisticated fashion- the more we read, the more we charmed! How visual! How touching! How creative!
Whenever we think of haiku, we become astonished from the three lines magic! So short, but so cute! Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry- a non-rhymed verse genre with seasonal theme which paint a mental image in the reader's mind. It consists of 17 moras, in three phrases or metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 moras respectively. It is not 17 syllables but 17 moras. Moras are a bit different- it is Japanese sound unit. Haiku typically contain a kigo or seasonal reference and a kireji or cutting word.
Haiku must contain a kigo that indicates in which season it is set. For example, cherry blossoms indicate spring, snow indicates winter, falling leaves indicate autumn and mosquitoes indicate summer.
Kireji divides the haiku into two independent parts, with a certain imaginative distance between the two sections. Both sections must enrich the understanding of the other.
In Edo-period (1600-1868), Masters as Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson and Kobayashi Issa referred it as hokku. Another Japanese Master Masaoka Shiki in 1892 named it haiku.
Japanese haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line but in English, it usually appears in three lines, to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku. To make this cutting in English, either the first or the second line ends normally with a colon, long dash or ellipsis.
Traditionally, haiku is written in three lines with 17 moras with seasonal theme- but the modern English poets don't follow 17 syllables. They write haiku about everyday things that include nature, feelings, or experiences in fewer syllables with three segments in a short-long-short pattern that is the liberal form of haiku. Even in Japan haiku became much moderate from the stand point of moras, kigo and kireji. With the change of time, much experiment was done on the form and content of haiku in Japan and in rest of the world.
Author is a public servant, as well as a poet of Bangladesh. He used to write poems in English and Bengali.
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