Haiku by Mircea Moisii

What is a Haiku?

mirceamoisii — 2025-03-12 12:05:06 UTC

A haiku is a type of japanese poetry.

It consists of a short poem of seventeen morasIt consists of a short poem of seventeen moras or syllables, written in three verses of five, seven and five syllables.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku

Title of the haiku about a frog

mirceamoisii — 2025-03-12 12:13:56 UTC

FURUIKE YA

Old pond

Matsuo Basho

mirceamoisii — 2025-03-12 12:21:18 UTC

It was the most famous poet of de Edo period.

He is recognized as the greatest master of haiku poems.

He was a servant of Todo Yoshitada of the Matsuo family

Analysis

mirceamoisii — 2025-03-12 12:29:43 UTC

Three lines of 5-7-5 syllables.

He wanted to describe this scene because it was a simple thing and of the natural environment.

And yes this scene can mean another thing that the obvious where the pond is your safe place and the frog is you

Cinquain

mirceamoisii — 2025-03-12 12:32:17 UTC

A cinquain poem is a type of poem classified by the number of syllables each line in the poem has. It was created by an American poet, Adelaide Crapsey, in the early twentieth century.

I know

Not these my hands

And yet I think there was

A woman like me once had hands

Like these.

The passing of time