# 5. Poems triggered by given lines (ligne donne)
HAIKUS ON ICICLES AT SUNRISE
1.
Icicles at sunrise
Streak a titmouse on its breast
With cherry colours.
2.
Icicles at sunrise
Are prism on barren branches
Shone through by sunlight.
3.
Icicles at sunrise
Sparkle on downy flakes
Falling on black leaves.
4.
Icicles at sunrise
Cast rainbow tints on shadows
Of brittle bramble.
5.
Icicles at sunrise
Become scarecrow posts when
Mid-day shadows loom.
6.
Icicles at sunrise
Are blades suspended on trees,
Are grass blades come spring.
--- ALBERT B. CASUGA
Mississauga, O1-17-11
The Given Line (Ligne Donne):
A titmouse lands in the cherry, the streak in his breast the same rust as a tree sparrow’s cap, a broomsedge stem, these icicles at sunrise. Dave Bonta, Morning Porch, (http://www.morningporch.com/)
Classical Japanese Haikus lent themselves well to nature poets like Basho, Issa, Shiki, and Buson. Given the nature meditations of Dave Bonta in his Morning Porch blog, we thought we would try the Haiku form as bodies of his ligne donne.
Apparently from the above, and the previous exercises in this series of Morning Porch poems, the haiku is still a useful form for nature images that objectify an idea, a sentiment, a mood, or simply an undefined feeling.
(See Haiku Inspirations: Poems and Meditations on Nature and Beauty by Tom Lowenstein, 2006 Duncan Board Publishers, London).
As a poetry composition exercise, the writing of the Haiku is exacting in its demands of precision in the combination of images that ultimately forms the gestalt that concretizes the idea which invariably appears as ideographs in the original characters.
1.
Icicles at sunrise
Streak a titmouse on its breast
With cherry colours.
2.
Icicles at sunrise
Are prism on barren branches
Shone through by sunlight.
3.
Icicles at sunrise
Sparkle on downy flakes
Falling on black leaves.
4.
Icicles at sunrise
Cast rainbow tints on shadows
Of brittle bramble.
5.
Icicles at sunrise
Become scarecrow posts when
Mid-day shadows loom.
6.
Icicles at sunrise
Are blades suspended on trees,
Are grass blades come spring.
--- ALBERT B. CASUGA
Mississauga, O1-17-11
The Given Line (Ligne Donne):
A titmouse lands in the cherry, the streak in his breast the same rust as a tree sparrow’s cap, a broomsedge stem, these icicles at sunrise. Dave Bonta, Morning Porch, (http://www.morningporch.com/)
Classical Japanese Haikus lent themselves well to nature poets like Basho, Issa, Shiki, and Buson. Given the nature meditations of Dave Bonta in his Morning Porch blog, we thought we would try the Haiku form as bodies of his ligne donne.
Apparently from the above, and the previous exercises in this series of Morning Porch poems, the haiku is still a useful form for nature images that objectify an idea, a sentiment, a mood, or simply an undefined feeling.
(See Haiku Inspirations: Poems and Meditations on Nature and Beauty by Tom Lowenstein, 2006 Duncan Board Publishers, London).
As a poetry composition exercise, the writing of the Haiku is exacting in its demands of precision in the combination of images that ultimately forms the gestalt that concretizes the idea which invariably appears as ideographs in the original characters.
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