HAIKU + MICROFICTION SONGLINES - celebrating the micro in us all...: June 2019

today's landscape is
cold with whimpers of sunlight
and echoes of rain#haiku pic.twitter.com/X5GssNte54
— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) June 29, 2019

QUOTES ABOUT HAIKU

In haiku the juxtaposition or “confrontation” of entities produces a tension charged with energy that generates an insight, intuition or felt-depth of an aspect of reality; it is a movement, a birth, that leads to a new level of awareness...

[Prompted in part by a passage of C.G. Jung’s].
- Robert Spiess

A haiku is a profound testimony that a most humble object of nature when put into the simplest of aesthetic forms can become a revelation.

- Robert Spiess

Today it may be possible to describe haiku but not to define it.

- Hiroaki Sato: Author; Columnist; and Editor of "One Hundred Frogs: From Matsuo Basho to Allen Ginsberg"

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