1. HAIKU
What is the pattern?

2. “The falling flower” Arakida Moritake (1473-1549)
The falling flower I saw drift back to the branch Was a butterfly. translated by Babette Duetsch

3. “Rain shower from mountain” Suiko Matsushita
Rain shower from mountain quietly soaking barbed wire fence translated by Violet Kazue de Cristoro

4. “The piercing chill I feel” Taniguchi Buson (1716-1783)
The piercing chill I feel: my dead wife’s comb, in our bedroom, under my heel… translated by Harold G. Henderson

5. Haiku
Capture the moment; capture the intensity of a specific moment, not a general time.
Focus on the concrete, real world, not the abstract realm of inner thoughts and feelings.
Traditionally involve nature and suggest a season. World view is one in which nature and the observer are one, not separate.

6. HAIKU What is the pattern? 3 lines, 19 syllables
1st line – 5 syllables
2nd line – 7 syllables
3rd line – 5 syllables