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Christmas time haiku -
“tableaux d’une exposition”
post-it notes on walls

Long Tooth
May 25, 2016

The painting here is a beautiful portrait of Mussorgsky the composer of the famous classical work 'Pictures At An Exhibition.'

This haiku is a very dense multi-layered haiku perhaps unlike any you have ever seen
 before. Let me explain what it means to me and then please share if you think I
 accomplished my goals in writing it.

The Christmas appellation refers not only to a season of the year but also stretches 
this seasonal reference in nature to include the gift giving season which, for a poet
 like myself, is any day that my muse offers me an idea for a haiku or  a poem.

Since  haikus are usually images, like a painted picture, the haiku suggests that
  the post-it notes on my wall are frames of each picture (or different individual
 haiku)  in my exhibition. Using the seven syllable French phrase for 'Pictures at an
 Exhibition, ' a very famous piece of classical music by Mussorgsky, gives the
 exhibition an erudite air as if my haiku were hung in the Louvre rather than my
 office. Vanity, vanity, all is vanity!

My questions for more experienced haiku writers include:
1. Can a real haiku be intentionally dense. ie., carry emotional overtones?
2. Can a real haiku have only one real interpretation, ie., the poet's intention?
3. If a haiku has as many possible interpretations as it has readers, how can it possibly be art?

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