Kayanya

A Lot of Words About A Little Poem An Introduction to Haiku Structures Part 1 -Introduction- A haiku poem cannot be defined according to the number of syllables and lines it contains (nor by the number of syllables in each line). Although I do not wish to go into the reasons why at this point (I will save that for a later discussion) the form of modern English haiku, as Haruo Shirane writes, “is a short poem, usually written in one to three lines.” (in Gilbert, 2009)  At this point our definition sounds very vague. If the number of syllables and lines do not define a haiku poem, then what does? And if a haiku poem is s

There is a doorway to a kind of night you are, your breath rising and falling, the profile of wind, forms and shadows covering the field, how things react differently there, like the moon, shedding its binary beat. You say words are finer and more awful with the solitude of night, that when you climb the outer cliffs the world is fully lit behind you. Maybe the stars flicker, maybe a mist falls from the mountains like silky verse, but clouds are still the reservoirs of history - heaven disappearing into its own infinite funnel. I know this the way I know our voices will be classified as a metatextual tear in morning, the holes in o