is for Haiku and Haiga
You probably already know that Haiku is a form of Japanese verse containing 17 syllables. These are usually divided into three lines of 5 -7 -5 syllables. There is often a seasonal theme. They are a way of looking at the world and capturing a moment.
The veil of the sky,
night spangled with stars, tree-snagged,
frays at the edges.
Jane Dougherty
https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/haiku-challenge-veil-fray/
Haiga is the combination of Haiku and painting. Traditionally the words were in brush calligraphy.
Nowadays you can find digital art haiku or photo haiku.
Geraldine Hartman has written the following poems.
https://mypoeticpath.wordpress.com/tag/summer-haiku/
Adelaide B. Shaw has produced this haiga
and the following Found Haiku from perusing Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels.
Lizanne lost in a good book 
Not often I get to share a post with Thomas Hardy 🙂 That found haiku is exquisite.
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I always enjoy reading your poems but the found haiku was new to me too.
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It needs special eyes to find poems where they’re hiding 🙂
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I’ve never really explored Haiku but I love the combination with painting. Thank you for teaching me something today. Sue @Sizzling60 from
Sizzling Towards Sixty
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I remember having to write a few Haiku’s for poetry units in english classes when I was in school. They were never easy to write.
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Lovely post. Sorry, if I’m being a little dim, but is a “found haiku” an example of writing that has perhaps originally been written as prose, but a beady-eyed literary person spots that it works as a haiku? If so, that’s brilliant, and a totally new concept to me.
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It appears to be the use of words and phrases from one text, in this case one of Hardy’s Wessex novels, to write a poem of the same theme.
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This explains more to me about what exactly a haiku is, than anything else I’ve read!! I too love the ‘found haiku’ concept 🙂
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I used to teach poetry and I love the restriction to a few essential words.
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Delightful post. Thank you.
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