What is a moment?

[threebirds]

Is it haiku, or is haiku of the moment? Or is it a part of a song, born from Waka, to study the moment?

Not sure as to whether this is the correct forum for this thread. But, is this haiku, or of "haiku-mind"?

an echo and the room
fills the room

Linguistics aside, what is the "haiku-mind" to you, as in individual, and how does this play into your life? That was a circular question, however. More to the point, what is your view that remarks upon the world in such brevity?




"I don't know" is not an incorrect response.

[Gabi Greve]

Hi threebirds (Mr.  or Mrs. ? )

What is a moment? Life is but a Moment.

For me, haiku is a Haiku Doo, way of the Haiku 俳 句 道
just as we have many DOO in Japan, the way of tea, way of bow and arrow, way of flowers and so on.

Basho who, when asked for a death haiku by his friends (according to Harold Henderson) "refused, on the ground that

every poem in his last ten years had been composed
as if it were a death poem ..

My Archery teacher used to say:

Shoot every arrow with the intention that it is your last !
That way you get the necessary intensity and will never be
... just shooting!

http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2006/08/haiku-doo-way-of-haiku.html

Greetings from Japan
Gabi

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[Don Baird]

"Shoot every arrow with the intention that it is your last !
That way you get the necessary intensity and will never be
... just shooting! "  ~ from Gabi's post.


Yes!!! Exactly!  Thanks for posting his wisdom.  He has said it perfectly (imho).

Don

[threebirds]

There is something attractive about kyoudou. Maybe it is the aspect of releasing: pull back and let it go. Being ignorant of the competitive aspects and modern changes alterations of the form/way, I like the concept that each arrow is your lifeblood. Each release could be your last, in a battle situation, so one must be able to release their arrow as though it were their final breath.

I don't know, it holds a certain romance which is universally tied to ignorance. Positive or not, it is what it is.

:)

By the way, thank you both for responding. It has managed to steer the thread away from what it originally was, which was redundant as there is another thread with similar purpose in mind.