Hanshan wrote this Haiku. I enjoy reading and writing Haiku. A poem’s meaning is usually shrouded in mystery, but Haiku even more so. There is so much left to the imagination.
I turn off the light —
my heart a precipice
before the moon
I have not written a Haiku for a while, but decided to take a run at it. Mine is less abstract.
Words separate spaces
overflowing and alluring
Flooding my senses
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
Teacher as Transformer 
Hello, liked your Haiku, and wanted to mention technically this is a Senryu because it is not about nature. I learned this from a poetry site. The one you posted above it was exquisite, also.
Thank you. That makes sense about the Senryu. I taught those, as well.
Yours is a westernized Haiku, but Haiku nonetheless, as you’ve included your senses 😉
Thank you Bela. That makes sense, being a non-Japanese writer.
lovely
Thank you.
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
I was taught by my infallible English teacher that the three lines are supposed to speak of one thing, thereby paying honor to the form by which it is said most poetry in scripture is written; it is therefore a tribute to the form of many (most) poems in Scripture where three lines repeat the same thought in three different ways. I cannot at the moment tell you what it is called, but I have tried it and from my point of view it is not the easiest to create.\
I think yours is very well done as well as appropriate considering your work.
Haiku, any form of poetry for that matter, which calls on us to form a limited number of lines about one topic is challenging. It is what makes the Pslams so powerful. There is a richness in them.
Thanks.