This is my first attempt at a Haiku. I’m having fun, so it won’t be my last.
Here it is for your morning perusal:
Secret nights, the wind
covers my body in love,
and I remember.
What have you written or remembered lately?
Chasing The Moonlight
Journey of a Poet, Photographer, and Nighttime Novelist
Oh Joelle, I love that haiku! So… wistful.
🙂 I was going for that wistful place, and I wasn’t sure if it came across. 🙂
Beautiful!
Thanks. 🙂
Haiku is not as easy as it looks. I think the greatest discipline is in *not* writing it, in waiting for it to come along, in cultivating the right state of being for it to happen.
I always say that haiku isn’t poetry. It lacks the artifice that poetry needs, but it has qualities that poetry does not. Haiku is an expression of enlightenment.
Please feel free to visit the zen space http://thezenspace.wordpress.com for more about haiku.
By the way, I won’t say whether I think your post is ‘good haiku’, but I will say that it is a gentle and beautiful offering in its own right.
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Marie Marshall
writer/poet/editor/blogger
Scotland
http://mairibheag.com
http://kvennarad.wordpress.com
Thanks for reading and commenting. Thanks too for the advice and the link, they were helpful. 🙂
I really like it. 🙂
I’ve been in a poetry writing mood lately, but I don’t have time to write any.
🙂 Thank you much. You could always try to write one line every morning when you first wake up, if nothing else it would be a fun experiment to see what it would like after a week. Jsut throwing it out there to you. 🙂
Love it! It’s so “zen.”
Thank you 🙂 Getting into the more meditative aspect of poetry and it’s forms, branching out feels good.