recently in my dreams,

a glass of orange juice

as fresh as spring!

 

 

 

hai·ku
/ˈhīˌko͞o/

1.  a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

2.   a poem in English written in the form of a haiku.

 

 

Quietly, quietly,

yellow mountain roses fall

sound of the rapids.

 

— Matsuo Bashō – 1680s

 

 

I gladly confess that i am no haiku poet ;  )

even putting my lines of words on the same page as Basho’s is probably a sacrilege and an offense to Japanese people. 

I know very little of Japanese culture, the old and the new, but i have been attracted to Zen Buddhism in the past, to the rigor and almost brutal way to strip away all flimflam, all the unnecessary aspects to arrive at the raw truth of reality.

Koans are probably the extreme form of haiku

 

 

Two hands clap and there is a sound.

What is the sound of one hand clapping? 

 

 

 

words stripped of all context

making the head spin

blowing the mind

 

 

And thats the whole point, i guess :  )

 

 

 

 

 

I guess reality is like that sometimes ;  )