A dove's poetry
| haiku |
Haiku are short poems built around imagery and nature aiming to be short but intense. Haiku typically do not impose an emotion on the reader, but instead offer the reader a place to experience their own emotions from whatever memory or visual the poem creates. To create a vibrant environment, haiku are commonly divided per season. To indicate the season, haiku traditionally contain a kigo |季語| or ‘season word,’ which refers not only to the season, but the part of the season as well. Where plum blossoms refer to early spring, cherry blossoms refer to late spring. These are used to link various parts of a larger poem such as a renku together, and in a single haiku they carry both physical and emotional associations that help to provide a more intense experience with so few words. All my haiku are tagged per season, so please use the links below to browse a certain season.
spring | 春
summer | 夏
autumn | 秋
winter | 冬
new year | 正月
| senryū |
Senryū are similar to haiku when it comes to structure but they tend to focus more on human nature than nature itself. My senryū are tagged seperately.
senryū | 川柳
| tanka |
Tanka, on the other hand, are two lines longer than haiku and senryū and traditionally focus on human emotion, or in my case, sapphic yearning.
tanka | 短歌
| a dove's diary |
The last form of poetry on this blog is my approximation of the rhythmic structure used in Sappho's ancient Greek poetry. Where the original greek featured a pattern of long and short vowels (which works very well in Greek, not so much in English), I instead focus on a pattern with stressed and unstressed syllables. These poems are linked below.
a dove's diary | こばとの日記
