I’ve heard people say, in person and online that they would like to write poetry, but they don’t know what to write about. I think if you don’t know what to write about, you should read more poetry. If you want to write poetry, you need to read it. I’ve come up with haiku by getting ideas from other people’s writing. I’m not talking about … Continue reading What do I write?
One of the things that I find most notable about haiku is how western haiku in particular, has changed over time. Traditional Japanese haiku were written with what has been described in English as “word sounds” called onji in Japanese. These are different than English syllables which means that when haiku was first written in English, it had to change to fit the language. Western … Continue reading Change
I’ve been writing haiku for close to ten years now and managed to publish a book of them in 2018. Admittedly though, some (most) of the early ones weren’t that good. I like to think I’ve gotten better at it but how do you judge your own work? I do that by comparing what I do to the work of other writers whose haiku I … Continue reading Just Write!
Last night after dinner, I sat outside in a lawn chair and wrote four haiku. All I did was sit in the chair and observe. Once you train your mind to block out unwanted thoughts (try Buddhist meditation) you can observe the world around you much more clearly. As I sat, a Blue Eyed Darner came along and investigated me. I wrote: curious blue eyed … Continue reading Evening Breeze
Wind in the Trees, a haiku journal 