tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512327745848627452.post8136550516938297247..comments2024-03-24T14:25:25.667+01:00Comments on CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI: Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #45, The BeatitudesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512327745848627452.post-56874997500903896172015-04-29T16:40:35.565+02:002015-04-29T16:40:35.565+02:00Yes, I think ALL haiku are spiritual, and Kristjaa...Yes, I think ALL haiku are spiritual, and Kristjaan's posts on Hinduism were fascinating. Technically, they are haibun, and if you look at the haiku they are crystal clear and tangible. <br />Faith is also for the reader to feel. Let him or her find the faith through the objective reality of the haiku. If one wants, one can find real Buddhist awakening in Basho's frog haiku - can it be taken as a moment or realisation? Yes, it can, but ONLY if the reader wants. <br />Our haiku must get better, and develop. We cannot be heroes with every single haiku we write. We must be at one with our readers, where possible, and in the end, we are writing haiku, not 3 lines about our faith.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445997176174265322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512327745848627452.post-25329126216357616292015-04-28T15:16:23.085+02:002015-04-28T15:16:23.085+02:00For me, haiku can also be a spiritual "moment...For me, haiku can also be a spiritual "moment" so I often write in that direction... when faith is integral to life, one cannot separate it from one's writing...like Kristjaan's posts on the teachings of hinduism. Whatever we don't believe may seem like propaganda, I suppose. But thanks, all of you, for expressing your unique perspectives through your haiku!lynn__https://www.blogger.com/profile/03991892804149727665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512327745848627452.post-68764361201622042282015-04-28T05:52:11.370+02:002015-04-28T05:52:11.370+02:00Uh oh ... well... mine is sort of toeing the propa...Uh oh ... well... mine is sort of toeing the propaganda line! Fingers crossed ....!Blog It Or Lose Ithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386952096217793342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512327745848627452.post-60501307292867532462015-04-28T00:27:07.053+02:002015-04-28T00:27:07.053+02:00Thanks Hamish for your kind words. You have quoted...Thanks Hamish for your kind words. You have quoted what i strongly believe is the heart of haiku. Haiku isn't meant for propaganda ... Our readers have to make their own connection with the images in our haiku. Without our readers we, haiku poets/esses, are nothing. We need them to lighten us to become better without propaganding our believes.<br /><br />Namaste,Chèvrefeuillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00848986700725789154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512327745848627452.post-40264701282964216562015-04-27T18:20:35.297+02:002015-04-27T18:20:35.297+02:00nice prompt, setting to the task of writing, have...nice prompt, setting to the task of writing, have a good day<br /><br />much love...Gillena Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09191865405561549074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512327745848627452.post-12573831607846704572015-04-27T18:14:50.660+02:002015-04-27T18:14:50.660+02:00What you wrote here is fantastic, Kristjaan: '...What you wrote here is fantastic, Kristjaan: ''Haiku is the impression of a very short moment, as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water. To catch that moment is the goal of every haiku poet/ess. You want to share your experience with your reader, but your reader has to feel how he/she (the reader) experienced the moment caught in the haiku.<br />Haiku isn't just written by a haiku poet/ess, but to share an individual experience of the reader too. The reader must have the idea that he/she experiences what he/she reads, sees, feels, smells and so on in the written haiku. It makes the reader part of the haiku and in a way part of the haiku poet/ess.''<br /><br />I urge colleagues to read what Kristjaan wrote. above, before writing a haiku proclaiming their faith in their God. We need to be careful with these propaganda haiku, and treat the art of haiku with the respect it deserves, letting the reader find their own connection to the haikuAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445997176174265322noreply@blogger.com