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| Lecture on "Haiku in
English, by Miyashita-sensei April, 2008 |
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ESUJ's perennially popular series Haiku in English took place on April
23 (Wed) at the Japan National Since January this year The Asahi Weekly has been
publishing Miyashita Emiko's "Haiku Corner", normally in the first issue of the
month. Twenty-three people participated in the session, among them readers of the Asahi
Weekly, with 11 persons submitting haiku beforehand.
First, everyone was asked to close their eyes while Miyashita-sensei read a submitted
haiku. After thinking about the poem, observations and impressions were exchanged Next,
while looking at Emiko-sensei's suggestions for improving the haiku, we listened to her
explanation, and then the author's own explanation, for a very high-level, intellectual
and thoroughly enjoyable exchange. As haiku are 'seasonal', most submitted poems featured
the spring. Some examples:
under gorgeous cherry blossoms
a homeless old man clad in pink all over
sleeping with all smiles
Two suggestions by Emiko-sensei:
under the cherry tree
a homeless man
blanketed by blossoms
and:
under the cherry tree
a homeless man
smiling in his sleep
When you have a beautiful experience in everyday life or feel
something deeply in your heart, why not write a haiku yourself. |
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