HAIKU

Haiku (is a mode of Japanese poetry.. The traditional hokku consisted of a pattern of approximately 5, 7, 5 syllables, or on. The Japanese word on, meaning "sound", corresponds to a mora, a phonetic unit similar but not identical to the syllable of a language such as English. A haiku contains a special season word representative of the season in which the renga is set, or a reference to the natural world.Here are a few I have written-note the poem may be read in any sequence—line 1,2,3 or 3,21 or 2,1,3 and so on---all have to do with the natural world—

(Canyon Point Campground-97)

shadows on the trail

sliding down invisible

blue columns softly

HAIKU GLAWS/97

(Fishing at Canyon Lake-80’s)

i see summer moon

shadows valleys far below

bathes the mountains high

HAIKU GLAWS/80

(Elk hunting south of Flagstaff, AZ –88’s)

in the high mountains

snowflakes aimlessly covers

the herd quietly down

HAIKU GLAWS/88

(Enchanted Desert Navaho Reservation, AZ-87)

baby on her breast

ghostly forms on hogan wall

the pinion boughs burn

HA KU GLAWS/87

Some by Elizabeth Searle Lamb Casting into a Cloud, Southwest Haikuin

the high meadow,

moonlight muffles our horses hooves,

the elk still browsing

leaving the cabin

I put the old calendar

into my backpack

behind the pueblo

the presence of Black Mesa

this windy day

CM

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