The Meadow's Chorus - A Month of Daily Haiku (Day 5)
glistens in morning's chorus.
Insects sing of spring.
In this Haiku I wanted to capture the essence of a springtime meadow. There is a kind of musicality in the bustle of insect and waving flowers of a meadow. It's almost like natures dance. These were the feelings/thoughts that crossed my mind when looking at this picture and composing this Haiku. Hopefully the poem expressed some of what makes a great Haiku:
Kigo (季語), an explicit or implicit reference to a season, that defines the time of the year in which the haiku referrers to or is composed.
Mono no aware (物の哀れ), empathy with nature and human life; the "feeling of things", nostalgia, regret for the passing of time, understanding of the changeability and of the transience without suffering.
Karumi (軽み), beauty in simplicity; poetic beauty reflected in its simplicity, free from preconceptions and moral judgment.
Wabi (侘寂), the taste for frugal and natural things, rustic simplicity, freshness or silence; it can be applied to both natural and artificial objects, or even non-ostentatious elegance.
Reference from @bananafish Mizu No Oto Haiku Competition
This is day five of my month long challenge - from the 06th of August until the 06th of September - to post a daily Haiku on steem. Each week will have a different theme based on picture prompts from either Pixabay.com or Unsplash.com. This week's broad theme is different natural environments.
I have created a new tag #monthofhaiku. If anyone wants to replicate the challenge please feel free, I will check the tag occasionally and try to curate the better Haiku. However, this is not meant to be a challenge to the writers' community. I have an extremely busy month ahead, and I started this as a personal challenge so that I didn't drift away from posting on steem. Please, forgive me if I'm slow to respond to comments or am not around on discord, I have had to reassess my priorities over the last few weeks.
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Very interesting kind of challenge!
When I think of my early years and peaceful time spent lying on the ground in a grassy field--yes I did, and there was a stream nearby--I recall sounds and scents. I can hear now the stream, especially, in spring when winter snow in the mountain melted and water rushed down to the distant river. A chorus of insects was always affirming. It was life, and even as a child I recognized the wonder of that.
Your haiku captured my experience.
Amazing! That sounds like a wonderful upbringing. I had some moments like that myself as one of my best friends lived in the countryside and we'd visit at least twice/year... but I grew up in the city so those types of experiences were few and far between. maybe that's why they have such a powerful pull on me now. I yearn for that which I know is at the root of my soul.
Ah well, at least it comes out in the writing. Sliver linings :)
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