Japanese Poetry
My love of poetry has inspired me to introduce you to a beautiful form of poetry. I will give you a few simple rules so you can write poems in this Japanese style.
There are many types of Japanese poetry, however, I will introduce you to only two so you can try them.
1. What is a haiku?
A haiku is a Japanese poem consisting of three lines and 17 syllables. Each line must contain a specific number of syllables. The first line has five syllables, the second line has seven syllables and the third line has five syllables. The haiku is one of the most beautiful of poetic forms.
Here is an example of a poem written in "haiku" form
(5 syllables) proud, free butterfly:
(7 syllables) I wanted to fondle you;
(5 syllables) bright wings ripped.
(2) you died.
(5) soft? skin does not age
(7) only the image darkens,
(5) bodies remember. . .
(5) body and body. . .
(7) same as always, nothing more. . .
(5) a slight pause in time. . .
(5) at dawn I picked two
(7) flowers: at noon
I sold one
(5) to fill my stomach. . .
What are the rules for making a haiku?
As mentioned, the haiku contains three lines. With syllables alternating 5, 7 and then 5. Rhyming is not necessary. Rules regarding word repetition, punctuation and capitalization are left to the writer's discretion.
Go ahead an try composing a "haiku." There many subjects to choose from: War, Nature, Love, Politics, Music, Art, Global Warning, Relationships, whatever you are inspired by!
Thousands of haiku are composed every year, and for the most part, represent Japanese subjects such as landscapes, seasons, birds, insects, flowers, phases of the moon and other natural phenomena. Haiku offers a writer the chance to suggest a scene, a landscape or a mood that is open to interpretation. It is left to the reader to fill in the details of the painting suggested by the writer or Haiku Master.
History of the Haiku. . .
Haiku was officially born in Japan at the beginning of the Tokugawa shogurrate (1603-1770). The haiku style grew out of the popular pastime known as Renga, in which one or more poets supplied alernating sections to short, five-lined verse known as tanka verse. The seventeenth century poet, Matsuo Basho (1644-94) elevated this form into a high literary form. Today haiku remains the most popular form of literary expression in Japan and its popularity in the West continues to grow.
II. What is Naga-uta?
Japanese poetry form of 5, 7, 5 syllables is called a "haiku." The form 7,7 is called a "renga" and when a "haiku"and renga are linked, the resulting form is called a "tanka." A series of "tankas" is called a "naga-uta."
Example of a "naga-uta" form poem
(5) In my former life:
(7) I blind beggar of fourteen,
(5) one day touched your life. . .
(7) You, wilier street-urchin,
(7) were fifteen, having wise eyes.
by: Aaron Brown
I hope you have the chance to try writing in this style. It is magical!
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