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The pines careen
the way the rough waves
crash

My exhausted heart...
the mountains, the sea
too beautiful
-- Santoka Taneda

Senryu:

a poem dealing with human affairs, usually written in the same form as haiku but without a kigo.

Examples. Classical Japanese senryu

A single ant
gets a good girl
out of her clothes

A baby born –
and as river-banks lie
man and wife

Sheltering from the rain,
the letters on the Buddha's forehead
I study hard!

Monoku:

a one-line haiku or senryu poem

Examples

autumn ilness the white noise of crickets

mosquitoes and young couples in love in another language

a wet-black boulder blue december sky

by Jim Kacian (first published in Shamrock Haiku Journal No 1)

Renga

Renga (linked verse):

a linked poems usually composed by two or more poets (5-7-5 and 7-7 onji).

Rensaku and Gunsaku

Rensaku (linked work):

a bunch of haiku/tanka written around the same event/experience.

Gunsaku (group work):

a sequence of haiku/tanka written around the same event/experience.

Ginko

Renga (linked verse):

a linked poems usually composed by two or more poets (5-7-5 and 7-7 onji).

Ginko

Ginko:

a walk in the nature of a group of haiku poets.

Haibun

Haibun:

prose by a haiku poet, usually intermitted with haiku.

Haiga

Haiga:

a painting that includes a haiku, sometimes in calligraphy.

Haiga by Kamome

Example. Haiga by Kamome (Italy)
includes the following haiku by Issa Kobayashi:

Rare beauty:
the kite escaping
from a beggar's hut

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Haiku and Hokku Hokku: traditionally, a first stanza in renga. Before Shiki, the name for what we now know as haiku. Haiku (plural: haiku!): a short (having no more than four lines) nature-oriented poem containing a reference to a certain season, or a kigo / season word, and consisting of two parts. Examples. Classical Japanese haiku/hokku On a barren branch a raven has perched – autumn dusk Old pond... a frog leaps in water's sound -- Matsuo Basho Fuji alone remains unburied: the young leaves! Wild mustard flowers – in the east, the moon in the west, the sun crossing the summer river, sandals in my hand... happiness -- Yosa Buson Pearls of dew! In every single one of them I see my home Fool of a cat! Broken beggar as he is – he shouts his joy! Slowly, so slowly climbing up Mount Fuji, a snail This world of dew is only a world of dew... and yet, and yet... -- Issa Kobayashi White butterfly darting among pinks – whose spirit? Men are disgusting – they argue over the price of orchids! -- Masaoka Shiki The pines careen the way the rough waves crash My exhausted heart... the mountains, the sea too beautiful -- Santoka Taneda Senryu and Monoku Senryu: a poem dealing with human affairs, usually written in the same form as haiku but without a kigo. Examples. Classical Japanese senryu A single ant gets a good girl out of her clothes A baby born – and as river-banks lie man and wife Sheltering from the rain, the letters on the Buddha's forehead I study hard! Monoku: a one-line haiku or senryu poem Examples autumn ilness the white noise of crickets mosquitoes and young couples in love in another language a wet-black boulder blue december sky by Jim Kacian (first published in Shamrock Haiku Journal No 1) © Jim Kacian, 2007 Renga Renga (linked verse): a linked poems usually composed by two or more poets (5-7-5 and 7-7 onji). Rensaku and Gunsaku Rensaku (linked work): a bunch of haiku/tanka written around the same event/experience. Gunsaku (group work): a sequence of haiku/tanka written around the same event/experience. Ginko Renga (linked verse): a linked poems usually composed by two or more poets (5-7-5 and 7-7 onji). Ginko Ginko: a walk in the nature of a group of haiku poets. Haibun Haibun: prose by a haiku poet, usually intermitted with haiku. Haiga Haiga: a painting that includes a haiku, sometimes in calligraphy. Example. Haiga by Kamome (Italy) includes the following haiku by Issa Kobayashi: Rare beauty: the kite escaping from a beggar's hut Copyright © by Irish Haiku Society. All rights reserved. All the contents are copyright by the indicated poets/artists. All the rights revert to the authors and artists upon publication on the IHS site. Any unauthorised copying of the contents of this site is strictly forbidden. The IHS logo image is copyright © by Christine Zeytounian-Belous (Paris, France).
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