Tag: Japanese aesthetics

Haiku for a beloved friend on her birthday

Haiku for a beloved friend on her birthday   The fog of a dream: Desolation yields a shrine, Your steadfast friendship.   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..

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This porcelain heart: A Tanka poem about Ikebana art

This porcelain heart   This porcelain heart May crack with the weight of time Or shatter through mishap But it will live in my heart Until stern death do us part. Tanka poems follow a set of rules. They all have five lines and each line follows a pattern: the first line has five syllables,..

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