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All poems on this page Copyright © 1913-2015 by their authors. |
Favorites include:
a falcon dives how completely I surround my bones | Pete Yovu |
I meet the twin she never mentioned the mist lit briefly by the sun | Chris Gordon |
passing headlights snow gathers on the horse's back | Jack Barry |
so suddenly winter baby teeth at the bottom of the button jar | Carolyn Hall |
| Haiku is both easy and impossible to define. One can merely use dictionary language to say that a haiku is a short poem, usually in three lines, that uses natural imagery to evoke a feeling or mood. But such flat definitions fall well short of accounting for haiku's mysterious power to cause in the reader's consciousness a sudden shift, literally a new way of seeing. Part of this ability lies in the form's brevity, which leaves no time to explain an experience; instead, the haiku conveys an experience directly without commentary and with an immediacy not possible in longer poems. |
Peculiarly Collins gives the impression that he is the author of haiku he quotes. He should have given credit to their authors. These are from just two pages (xxxii-xxxiii) of his introductory essay.
A page of Shelley brightens and dims with passing clouds | Rod Willmot |
jackknifed rig a trooper waves us into wildflowers | Robert Gilliand |
I lay down all the heavy packages — autumn moon | Patricia Donegan |
looking up rules of punctuation — green hills | Cherie Hunter Day |
after the garden party the garden | Ruth Yarrow |
Moonlit sleet In the holes of my Harmonica | David Lloyd |
Through the slats of the outhouse door Everest! | Margaret Chula |
The morning paper — I set down my coffee cup in Buenos Aires. | David Burleigh |
The fleeing sandpipers
turn about suddenly
and chase back the sea!
| James W. Hackett |
passport check my shadow awaits across the boarder | George Swede |
Winter burial: a stone angel points his hand at the empty sky | Eric W. Amann |
wood pile on the sagging porch unstacking itself | Marlene Mountain |
an empty elevator door opens closes | Jack Cain |
before we enter after we leave the meditation room | Christopher Herold |
Related pages:
 Poetry index.
How to Write Poetry.
How to write specific forms: Haibun.
Haiku.
Hay(na)ku.
Rengay.
Tanka.
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Books of Poetry Form.
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Copyright
© 2013-2016 by J. Zimmerman
The quoted poems are Copyright © 1913-2016 by the credited poets. |
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