Miss The Mark

Ring Out

haiku

autumn

moonlight

worm

chestnut

peony

dream

grass

soldier

summer

battlefield

stone

wind

rock

boss

weekend

waking up

is good when it reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject... that which reveals fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of. Matsuo Basho

is easy. But sometimes they don’t make sense. Refrigerator.

is an art dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence.

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.

is, when good, able to humble a poem of a hundred lines.

A haiku that could humble a poem of a hundred lines.

 reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is, merely saying: that.

The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!

42. Los hay-kais son telegramas poéticos. Haikus are poetic telegrams.

is a limerick that doesn't make you laugh.

is a form of poetry by which the author should be absent, and only the haiku present.

The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

haiku, n.All

haiku