Long Haiga Poems
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In this digital age
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This link will show this haiku in a haiga form on one of my paintings
http://haiga-ichthys.blogspot.com/
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Haiku presented in a Japanese style
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HAIKU is a centuries old Japanese traditional phonetical & cultural poetic form
whereas
HIKU is a relatively recently reference to the 75year old established haiku in English. Hiku being an imagist tristich like its elder cousin,without a title,and with a similar economy of words ,inherently enigmatic & with a caesura or an ellipsis and surprise ending. A similar sense of pause the aesthetic insight flowing from perception gained from 'one breath length ' composition that flowed from the Japanesese 17 onji sound inherent in the Japaneses haiku. Without any syllabic( 5-7-5 ) line restrictions, the hiku is the 'free verse' version of the haiku in English. similar but different ,a present tense poetic in another language - hiku is the written or recited equivalent to arts 'gestural spontaneous happening' .
A verse freed from strict syllabic constraint within its triplicity of format& is inherently enigmatic & often with a caesura and surprise ending( VERSUM )to give a 'turning' to the line.
The hiku maybe a horizontal single* line,(often broken line at the caesura),a vertical line(usually a painting(haiga) ,a couplet** or a tristich* with shape-like variations.
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Hiku After style of ee cummings,VERTICAL form as used in the Haiga (combined art-poetry)
HAIKU is the ' phonetical&cultural original 'in Japanese'& in reality uses '17 'onji' (sound symbols)rather than syllables traditionally written in Japanese ,as a single line
whereas
HIKU is the English language tristich(3 line) version(including translations)with similar economy of words
including the THOUGHT PAUSE prompt (often indicated by an ellipsis .....the SENSE PAUSE the aesthetic point of insight flowing from perception & ONE BREATH LENGTH to correspond to the aforementioned Japanesese 17 onji sounds.
The essence without "telling all" (thereby to ' show ' conforming to the key of all true imagist poetry),&avoids 'as'&'to' & the use of past tense verbs (& is often without verbs,adverbs,adjectives )A verse freed from strict syllabic constraint within its triplicity of format& is inherently enigmatic & often with a caesura and surprise ending( VERSUM )to give a 'turning' to the line.The hiku maybe a horizontal single* line,(often broken at the caesura),a vertical line(usually a painting(haiga see note) ,a couplet** or a tristich***
Resurrection iBodies
By Mark D. Stucky
I laundered my iPhone the other day,
left in a pants pocket bound for washer glory.
After all the agitation and spin ceased,
below the damp graveclothes,
I found its corpse, cold and dead,
circuitry and battery drowned.
Ashes to ashes, suds to suds.
How our lives seem to rely on our phones.
How anxious we feel about sudden loss!
But fear not,
iCloud carried a backup.
After purchasing and registering a newer model,
restoring from the heavenly Cloud began.
Soon, all my old apps, photos, and music
miraculously appeared on my new phone.
My old phone’s configuration,
its personality, its spirit, its soul,
resurrected in the new model.
The same soul in an upgraded body,
newer, sleeker, faster, better,
more glorious.
A promise to us all.
(First published in Time of Singing, 48:1 (Spring 2021), p. 30. See also my poem "Bringing Heaven to Earth" and my visual poem “Haiga for the Heavenbound.”)
Van Gogh colour https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/a_sty-eye-lised_impression_921575
Pollock expressions https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/pollock_chances_1145547
Hopper enigma https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/hopper_metaphors_of_silence_1145757
Pointillism Seurat https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/symbols_of_sunday_recited_489054
Klee modern haiga https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/once_emerged_from_the_grey_of_night_902905
Lichtenstein https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/shipboard_girl_78036
Macke https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/mirrors_of_the_soul_recited_475860
Matisse cutouts https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/a_matisse_melange_1146030
Archimboldo surreal https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/soliloquy_143748
Nathaniel Bacon Still life https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_cookmaid__still_life_80170
(See the haiku text embedded in the image above. For a high resolution image, see cinemaspirit.info/heaven/.)*
Haiga for the Heavenbound
By Mark D. Stucky
We search for the source
flowing with living water
and find our new home
*(About this work: This ecological/spiritual haiga--an image integrated with haiku text--was inspired by Revelation 22:1, “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.” The image of harsh desert with threatening storm clouds, crystal glass filled with water, and water-nourished paradise is a highly edited collage of four individual stock photos and contains a dozen separate layers in the original Photoshop file. This was first published in Small Town Anthology IX: Southwest Michigan’s Tournament of Writers 2023, Vicksburg Cultural Arts Center, 2023, p. 365. See also my poems “Bringing Heaven to Earth” and “Resurrection iBodies.”)
(See the text embedded in the image above. For a high-resolution version of this image, go to cinemaspirit.info/trinity.)*
Trinity Dance (a Visual Poem)
By Mark D. Stucky
Father - Parent - Creator - Rock - Lover - Justice
Son - Child - Savior - Redeemer - Loved - Peace
Spirit - Womb - Sanctifier - Friend - Love - Wisdom
*(About this work: See the image above! The collaged image in this visual poem has three groups of words describing persons of the Trinity in a three-in-one spiraling dance with a Hubble photo of spiral galaxy NGC 4639 in the background. It was inspired by a question in my church, if the three persons of the Trinity danced together, what would that have looked like? This work was first published as "Trinity Dance" in Spirit Fire Review, 21 March 2023. See also my "Trinity" poems "Trinitarian Equations" and "The Invention of Love" and my visual poem “Haiga for the Heavenbound.”)
HAIKU is a centuries old Japanese traditional phonetical & cultural poetic form
whereas
HIKU is a relatively recent reference to the 75year old established haiku in English. Hiku being an imagist tristich like its elder cousin,without a title,and with a similar economy of words ,inherently enigmatic & with a caesura or an ellipsis and surprise ending. A similar sense of pause ,the aesthetic insight flowing from perception gained from 'one breath length ' composition that flowed from the Japanesese 17 onji sound inherent in the Japaneses haiku. Without 'invented' syllabic( 5-7-5 ) line restrictions of the 'haiku in english 'is the 'free verse' version of the '5:7:5 haiku in English'. similar but different ,a present tense poetic ,the - hiku is the written or recited equivalent to arts 'gestural spontaneous happening' .
Creativity the key in a verse freed from strict syllabic constraint within its triplicity of format(tristich)& yet inherently enigmatic & often with a caesura and surprise ending( VERSUM )to give a 'turning' to the line.
The flexible hiku maybe a horizontal single* line,(often broken line at the caesura),a vertical line(usually a painting(haiga) ,a couplet** or a tristich* with shape-like variations.
hiku tristich examples
he dusted the album-
a memory of love
trickled down his cheek
winter unfolds-
galanthus nivalis
in the woodland
5:7:5 haiku (haiku in English) example
on the wind,a bell-
muffled from across the square
raindrops fill the air
5:7:5 haiku( haiku in English)with title example
An Abstract Haiku
blue and gold circles
revolve,dissolve and endure
picture,perfect pure
Jurassic Prayer
By Mark D. Stucky
We asked our preschooler to pray,
and with dinner plates before us
and our hands folded,
he paused in silence
and then roared in imitation
of a wounded, angry dinosaur.
We all laughed at the incongruous “prayer”
from the tiny portrayal of a monstrous T-Rex,
but was the inadvertent theology
as inappropriate as first thought?
Religious roars of pain and anger
permeate the book of Job,
the story of an exemplary man
wounded by undeserved catastrophes.
In anger, Job roared at judgmental comforters.
In anguish, he roared at the world and at God.
And God roared back from a whirlwind
and later restored Job’s many blessings.
When wounded by anguish or anger
and longing for or fearing death,
good therapy is roaring at God
and baring one’s soul’s darkest depths,
for God, through crucifixion, felt our pain
and God, through resurrection, roared good news
that monstrous Death dies defeated.
And God will wipe away our tears
at the final end of earthly evil’s roaring
and the new beginning of celestial singing.
(First published in Agape Review, 11 July 2022. See also my poem "Bringing Heaven to Earth" and my visual poem “Haiga for the Heavenbound.”)
(Image by user1457424776 on Pixabay.com.)