Autumn Haiku
Today’s I had some fun with images, but like a haiku, I kept it simple. [Larger image here.]
This poem is by [Kyoshi Takahama], a Japanese haiku traditionalist. But I can see why he doesn’t want to mess with the haiku’s already simple rules: he was one of Masaoka Shiki’s closest disciples. Shiki is the man who gave haiku its name. Previously what is now haiku was just a variation of hokku and did not have it’s own name.
It’s an interesting history, which is not as simple as the poetry’s form itself.
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I was inspired to use a haiku because of an entry on skull-a-day asking users to submit poetry about skulls (to win shot glasses). I’d already planned on doing digital manipulation and so after finding a poem I liked went image hunting. The two images used are both royalty-free from a free photo exchange site sxc.hu. I lost the links to the originals but will find them tomorrow and repost.
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