Haiga creation in the midst of grief-driven foreboding
Haiga is a Japanese concept describing a refined visual art of combining brush painting, haiku, and calligraphy. A traditional haiga requires all three of these elements. Like the poetic form it accompanies, haiga is based on simple, yet often profound, observations of the everyday world.
https://thehaikufoundation.org/juxta/juxta-5-1/juxta-5-1-haiga/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiga
https://www.graceguts.com/haiga
https://poets.org/text/haiga-haiku-calligraphy-and-painting
A haiku is a type of Japanese poem that always uses the same number of syllables in a three-line format:
- the first line is five syllables
- the second line is seven syllables
- the third line is five syllables
Unlike many other poems, haikus usually don’t rhyme.
Often, a haiku focuses on a single moment in time and, in many cases, juxtaposes two images.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-haiku/
Over the past months of arduous caregiving and profound grief, I have created a number of Haiga-inspired backdrops using AI tools, then inserted my own haiku creations or other Japanese-inspired texts, such as the text featured in this posting.
Here are links to earlier postings with a similar focus:
https://robertmcbrydeauthor.com/on-love-and-death/
Your friend,
Robert
https://robertmcbrydeauthor.com/
If you feel like reading more about Anne’s cancer journey, I’ve chronicled it in prose and poetry here:
https://robertmcbrydeauthor.com/news/
