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Haiku Happen
We often see or sense something that gives us a bit of a lift, or a moment's pure sadness. Perhaps it is the funnies flapping in the breeze before a newsstand on a sunny spring day. Or some scent on the wind catches us as we step from the bus, or bend to lift the groceries from the car. Something tickles our ankle and, looking down to see what it is, we see more:
a baby crab
climbs up my leg--
such clear water
Or we are lying awake, alone with our thoughts, and as we turn to look at the clock
at midnight
a distant door
pulled shut
and we find ourselves more alone, because of the being on the other side of that door, than when we had no thoughts for others anywhere in the world.
The first of these two short poems was written about three hundred years ago by the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho. The second is by a twentieth-century Japanese poet, Ozaki Hosai. Both poems are haiku.
Moments that can give rise to haiku are not foreign to the Americas. Mark Cramer has translated the following poem, originally written in Spanish by the Mexican poet Jose Juan Tablada a few years before Hosai wrote "at midnight":
Tender willow
almost gold, almost amber,
almost light...
And just recently New Jerseyan Penny Harter found
the old doll
her mama box broken
to half a cry
Haiku happen all the time, wherever there are people who are "in touch" with the world of their senses, and with their own feeling response to it.
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