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SUMMER GRASSES
There is a rather well-known verse by Bashô: Summer grasses – All that remains Of warrior’s dreams. As a hokku it is a bit too “thoughty” — more reflective, like waka. … more »
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SUMMER GRASSES
hokku wrote 2 days ago: There is a rather well-known verse by Bashô: Summer grasses – All that remains Of warrior … more »
CEASE TO LIVE AND BEGIN TO BE
hokku wrote 1 week ago: If we look at the spiritual roots of hokku, we find they extend through Zen and Mahayana Buddhism a … more »
THE HEAT OF THE FOREST
hokku wrote 2 weeks ago: A hokku by the female writer Chiyo-ni: Coming to see – In the forest is the heat Of the fores … more »
THE SUMMER MOUNTAIN
hokku wrote 2 weeks ago: Issa wrote: The summer mountain; With each footstep seeing More of the sea. However one orients this … more »
WHY NOT 5-7-5?
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hokku wrote 2 weeks ago: As many of you know, originally hokku was written in seventeen Japanese phonetic units, 5-7-5. And … more »
SUMMER RAINS
hokku wrote 2 weeks ago: One of the amazing things about hokku is that it draws our attention to things so ordinary that we m … more »
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH
hokku wrote 3 weeks ago: Fireworks – in old hokku they were an autumn subject, but in America they belong to the Fourt … more »
FEET AGAINST THE WALL
hokku wrote 3 weeks ago: How cool My feet against the wall! A midday nap. And so begin the warm, drowsy days of summer. Bl … more »
THE HEAT OF SUMMER
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hokku wrote 3 weeks ago: There are two kinds of summer heat — dry heat, which is very yang, and damp heat, which has a … more »
BENEATH THE SUMMER MOON
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hokku wrote 3 weeks ago: The spring roses have dropped their petals, the bleeding hearts have faded and the heat of summer is … more »
SOME CONCLUDING WORDS ON HOKKU AS DIFFERENT FROM HAIKU
hokku wrote 3 weeks ago: The Internet must incredibly bewilder those looking for reliable information on the verse form that … more »
WHAT REMAINED IN SHIKI
hokku wrote 4 weeks ago: Masaoka Shiki, for good or ill depending on one’s perspective, marks the end of the old period … more »
SUMMER HEAT
hokku wrote 1 month ago: The chief characteristic of summer is its heat, so of course we should expect to find that often in … more »
RETHINKING OUR LIVES
hokku wrote 1 month ago: Time is running out. The glaciers are melting in the Himalayas and in other regions around the world … more »
YES, HOKKU ARE PUNCTUATED AND CAPITALIZED
hokku wrote 1 month ago: As regular readers here know already, hokku is fully punctuated and capitalized. That is in sharp … more »
THE RAINS OF EARLY SUMMER
hokku wrote 1 month ago: The extensive flooding in the American Midwest reminds me of this verse by Buson: The June rains; Ev … more »
WIKIPEDIA: LET THE READER BEWARE
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hokku wrote 1 month ago: I note that Wikipedia. the preeminent online pseudopedia of dubious information in my view, now has … more »
PEONIES
hokku wrote 1 month ago: When old hokku mention the peony, they are talking about the botan, what we would call a tree peony. … more »
SHÔHA IN SUMMER
hokku wrote 1 month ago: Shôha studied haikai under Buson, and died at the age of 44 about the year 1771. Here are three o … more »
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