Tuesday, October 13, 2015

A closer look

Two springs ago, this haiku poet bent to take a closer look at California poppies
on our trip to the Tilden Botanical Gardens.

filled with the sunbeams
swaying with the gentle breeze---
the cups of poppies

Kiyoshi Tokutomi


poppy orange
it goes
with everything

Patrick Gallagher

San Francisco Bay Area Nature Guide and Saijiki
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, 2010, page 16.

These two haiku show the contrast between 
a traditional 5-7-5 syllable form
and the shorter style now often used
by English language poets

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