{"id":3317,"date":"2014-04-14T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T10:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tracyleekarner.com\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2021-11-20T17:43:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T17:43:26","slug":"three-haiku-after-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/2014\/04\/14\/three-haiku-after-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Haiku After Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\">Three Haiku after Winter<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Swelling buds<br \/>\nand apple blossoms<br \/>\nemerging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Winter&#8217;s stars<br \/>\nsink westward, new hope<br \/>\nawakens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Listening:<br \/>\nthe full stream rushes,<br \/>\nit rejoices.<\/p>\n<h3>Traditionally, Japanese Haiku is a form of syllabic poetry of three lines,<\/h3>\n<p>with 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, and five in the third (17 syllables total).<\/p>\n<h3>English-language\u00a0poets since the 1950&#8217;s have often found that\u00a0Haiku in English needs\u00a0fewer syllables,<\/h3>\n<p>and have developed a 3-5-3 stanza (11 syllables total); but Americans often bend the rules and come up with free-form Haiku, varying the syllables but sticking to the philosophy.<\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"haiku\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/5782#sthash.QAww4eX2.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poets.org describes the traditional philosophy behind the haiku form as this:<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>focus on a brief moment in time;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>use provocative, colorful images;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>make it able\u00a0to be read in one breath;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>offer a sense of sudden enlightenment and illumination.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Haiku is\u00a0a simple\u00a0form to experiment with. Try it.<\/p>\n<h3>Share your haiku (in the comments) celebrating the passing of winter, the coming of light and illumination, or anything else you want to put into a colorful sentiment that fits into one <a title=\"B is for Breath: living well, despite everything\" href=\"http:\/\/tracyleekarner.com\/2014\/02\/07\/b-is-for-breath-living-well-despite-everything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">breath<\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Haiku after Winter Swelling buds and apple blossoms emerging. Winter&#8217;s stars sink westward, new hope awakens. Listening: the full stream rushes, it rejoices. Traditionally, Japanese Haiku is a form of syllabic poetry of three lines, with 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, and five in the third (17 syllables total). English-language\u00a0poets &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/2014\/04\/14\/three-haiku-after-winter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three Haiku After Winter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[470,1346,472,567,832,1282],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82236,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/82236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}